Parental roles in attending schools’ management meetings and pupils’ academic performance in Uganda
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2023-03-06
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Pupils’ Academic Performance is wanting in many primary schools in
Uganda. The public primary schools in Ndorwa County, Kabale DistrictUganda is one of the case scenarios in perspective. This research sought
views of internal and connected stakeholders regarding parents’
attendance of school administration meetings, in support of pupils’
educational performances. The study was aimed at developing a parental
involvement school partnership model. The researcher used cross
sectional survey design supported to collect and analyze both qualitative
and quantitative data. A sample size of 322 was derived from a population
of 2000 using simple random and purposive sampling techniques. The
research data was analyzed by way of frequencies, percentages, means
and standard deviations. Qualitative data was analyzed using content and
thematic analysis. The results show that students of highly involved family
members in schools management meetings and functions significantly
outperformed those with family members who were not involved based on
scores of the PLE for class 7. Parents of low-come levels, and negative
attitude towards their children’s education were the main challenge. To
improve pupils’ academic performance, the research recommends that
parents need to consider regular attendance of school meetings and
functions. Also, the government of Uganda should create policies that
ensure implementation of parental involvement welfares, building of
schools, family, and community partnership programs to empower
parents and support their Children’s learning. The practice of parents’
attendance in school meetings and functions in support of pupils’ studies
needs to be in tandem with deliberations from the ministry of education
policies, district education regulations and schools’ administration
directives. Parents need to check what they aid to pupils with schools’
advice.
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Parents’ attendance of school meetings, Pupils’ academic performance, Primary schools
Citation
European Journal of Education and Pedagogy