RUAHA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

The aim of this study was to examine the influence of different forms of parental involvement in education activities on students’ academic performance in public secondary schools. The study employed a qualitative research approach and a single case study design to gain deeper insight and better understanding of the different forms of parental involvement and their influence on students’ academic performance. Three (3) public secondary school heads were employed as sample together with fifteen (15) parents, whose children are schooling in the selected secondary schools. Qualitative data collected from interviews conducted with the key informants were analysed thematically by considering six steps: familiarization with the data, generation of initial codes, searching for themes, reviewing themes, refining themes, and writing-up process. The findings revealed that, parental involvement occurs in different forms such as attending school functions, having conducive home learning environment, and students-parents’ home discussions on school matters. Furthermore, the findings discovered issues like checking academic progress forms, providing educational needs to students, and contacting school regularly about children’s academic achievement. The study recommends that the parents should spend time with their children to discuss their academics at home to make the students succeed academically. Parents should also have frequent interaction with teachers and management of school in order to know that how they can help their children to get academic betterment of their children. Government should take measures to encourage capable children of less affluent class specially to have quality addition to manpower of the country.

education activities, parental involvement, public secondary schools, students academic performance