The Implementation of Parental Involvement Strategies in the School Activities in Government Primary and Secondary Schools of Fitche Town
From government primary and secondary schools of Fitche Town 132 (60 male and 72 female) teachers and 23 PTA sample was selected through simple random sampling technique and 35 students were selected via purposive sampling technique. The study followed pragmatic assumption of mixed approach of descr...
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| description | From government primary and secondary schools of Fitche Town 132 (60 male and 72 female) teachers and 23 PTA sample was selected through simple random sampling technique and 35 students were selected via purposive sampling technique. The study followed pragmatic assumption of mixed approach of descriptive research design. Data were collected through questionnaires involving both closed and open ended questions from the three groups’ selected as sample. The closed ended questionnaire was adapted from previous version and the open-ended one was developed by researcher. The instruments were piloted before they were used for final study and found reliable and valid. To answer basic research questions from collected data descriptive and inferential statistics methods of analysis was used. The major finding indicates that in the schools of Fitche town there was a trend of making aware of the importance of academic study, doing homework, a formal conference with every parents at least once a year, contacting families of students having academic or behavioural problems, sometimes recognize volunteers for their effort and the schools have active PTA those were elected with the reference of blueprint. However, the schools do not send home folders of student work weekly or monthly for the parent review and comment and do not conduct an annual survey to identify interests, talents, and availability of parent volunteers, in order to match their skills/talents with school and classroom; do not train and orient volunteers so that they use their time productively regularly and do not offer after-school programs for students with support from community (e.g., University, colleges and volunteers). Parents were participating more in parent teacher association but they least engaged in discussing their children learning progress with their teachers because of heavy workload, inadequate education and their ability may hinder their participation more, students were like their teachers to talk more to their parents and they feel good when their parent discuss with their teachers on their academic issue, there is statistically significant mean difference between parent involvement in school activities in government schools of Fitche town at P < 0.05. Abiyot Fire Primary School parents were the most involved in activities but in Fitche No.1 Primary School parents were least involved in school activities. It was suggested that schools should provide necessary information to parents on how to support students with skills that they can improve continuously, send home folders of students work weekly or monthly for parent review and comment, annual survey should be conducted to identify interests, talents, and availability of parent volunteers and trains and orient volunteers so they use their time productively and regularly. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-45ddcd0a966c42f0a35ff2b03c070be92023-12-02T15:20:56ZengTishk International UniversityInternational Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies2409-12942520-09682022-06-018224627710.23918/ijsses.v8i2p246The Implementation of Parental Involvement Strategies in the School Activities in Government Primary and Secondary Schools of Fitche TownGadisa Wando Shaka0Department of Psychology, Fitche College of Teachers Education, Oromia, EthiopiaFrom government primary and secondary schools of Fitche Town 132 (60 male and 72 female) teachers and 23 PTA sample was selected through simple random sampling technique and 35 students were selected via purposive sampling technique. The study followed pragmatic assumption of mixed approach of descriptive research design. Data were collected through questionnaires involving both closed and open ended questions from the three groups’ selected as sample. The closed ended questionnaire was adapted from previous version and the open-ended one was developed by researcher. The instruments were piloted before they were used for final study and found reliable and valid. To answer basic research questions from collected data descriptive and inferential statistics methods of analysis was used. The major finding indicates that in the schools of Fitche town there was a trend of making aware of the importance of academic study, doing homework, a formal conference with every parents at least once a year, contacting families of students having academic or behavioural problems, sometimes recognize volunteers for their effort and the schools have active PTA those were elected with the reference of blueprint. However, the schools do not send home folders of student work weekly or monthly for the parent review and comment and do not conduct an annual survey to identify interests, talents, and availability of parent volunteers, in order to match their skills/talents with school and classroom; do not train and orient volunteers so that they use their time productively regularly and do not offer after-school programs for students with support from community (e.g., University, colleges and volunteers). Parents were participating more in parent teacher association but they least engaged in discussing their children learning progress with their teachers because of heavy workload, inadequate education and their ability may hinder their participation more, students were like their teachers to talk more to their parents and they feel good when their parent discuss with their teachers on their academic issue, there is statistically significant mean difference between parent involvement in school activities in government schools of Fitche town at P < 0.05. Abiyot Fire Primary School parents were the most involved in activities but in Fitche No.1 Primary School parents were least involved in school activities. It was suggested that schools should provide necessary information to parents on how to support students with skills that they can improve continuously, send home folders of students work weekly or monthly for parent review and comment, annual survey should be conducted to identify interests, talents, and availability of parent volunteers and trains and orient volunteers so they use their time productively and regularly.https://ijsses.tiu.edu.iq/index.php/volume-8-issue-2-article-19/parent teachers associationimplementationinvolvementstrategiesoromia |
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| title | The Implementation of Parental Involvement Strategies in the School Activities in Government Primary and Secondary Schools of Fitche Town |
| title_full | The Implementation of Parental Involvement Strategies in the School Activities in Government Primary and Secondary Schools of Fitche Town |
| title_fullStr | The Implementation of Parental Involvement Strategies in the School Activities in Government Primary and Secondary Schools of Fitche Town |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Implementation of Parental Involvement Strategies in the School Activities in Government Primary and Secondary Schools of Fitche Town |
| title_short | The Implementation of Parental Involvement Strategies in the School Activities in Government Primary and Secondary Schools of Fitche Town |
| title_sort | implementation of parental involvement strategies in the school activities in government primary and secondary schools of fitche town |
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