Open AccessParents’ Involvement in Education Activities and Learners’ Academic Performance in 12YBE Schools in Rwanda
Author(s) -
Habumuremyi Emmanuel
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2616-8383
DOI - 10.53819/810181025025
Subject(s) - promotion (chess) , stratified sampling , psychology , simple random sample , government (linguistics) , medical education , sample (material) , data collection , set (abstract data type) , population , mathematics education , pedagogy , medicine , political science , sociology , social science , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , environmental health , pathology , chromatography , politics , computer science , law , programming language
The participation of parents in the performance of their children’ schooling activities play a significant role in the promotion of their school status and performance. The purpose of this paper therefore, was to establish the relationship between parents’ involvement in education activities and learners academic performance in 12Year Basic Education (YBE) schools in Nyarugenge district in Rwanda. The study adopted correlation research design while questionnaire, interview guide and document analysis review were used as data collection instruments. The target population was 1343. The study used simple random and stratified sampling techniques to get the sample size of 308 respondents. The study findings revealed there is a high significant positive relationship between parents’ participation in education activities at school and high score grades with 0.852. The correlation between parents’ participation in education activities was 0.873 and the correlation between parent’s participation in education activities at school and marks in discipline was .949 thus P = 0.000< 0.05. The study recommended that government should consider developing and implementing policies that support parents’ involvement in education activities. Parents should assist their children in doing their homework and set within their families an adequate environment by stimulating instructional activities and also time related to their students to revise their lessons as they also need to be cared for regarding their special needs. School principals have to cooperate with teaching staff and parents to enhance academic performance in their schools. Keywords: Parental involvement to education, learners’ academic performance and 12 years basic education