Abstract:
The major objective of this study was to investigate the role of parental involvement in two government secondary schools of Dawuro Zone Tarcha City Administration. The study employed descriptive survey design that would be appropriate for this study to get new information, to generate clearer questions and to maximize reliability. The researcher used mixed method that it helps a researcher use more quantitative and few qualitative data. That means the data collection and analysis of quantitative followed by a collection and analysis of qualitative data. For this study, 110 teachers, 236 parents, 236 students 6 principals and 10 PSTA members were selected for the study. Totally, 598 respondents were participated in this study. A simple random sampling technique used for teachers, students, parents and principals and PTAS members were totally selected by purposively. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics including; percentage, mean, standard deviation and used Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20. The major results of the analysis revealed that the descriptive survey results found in this study that parental involvements‟ were significantly predicted students‟ academic achievements‟ were included: parental support and expectations, parent-school relationships, self-concept of students, parents-school communication, school related factors positively predicted students‟ academic achievements. Most of the Parents did not motivate students to attend school regularly, parents did not fulfill necessary materials for their children, and parents did not give moral support to students. Especially, the majority of the respondents were agree on parents‟ low expectation about their children ‟academic achievement, Parents did not go to school to request their children behavior, Parents did not ask teachers their children academic result, Parents did not often visit school to shape the misbehavior of their children, and poor parental-school interaction were the major findings of the study. The following recommendations are forwarded: Schools, teachers and other relevant stakeholders need to promote psychological constructs of parents in general mothers and fathers in particular to involve in their children‟s education by giving counseling service both at school and home by providing adequate training, ultimately to improve students‟ learning outcomes and the school principals‟ better actions to be taken to increase parental involvement in their children‟s learning consequently, the school better work cooperatively with Tarcha City Administration education office to promote parental involvement. It is recommended that further study with wider geographical area and including other variables should be undertaken so as to have a reliable result on the role of parental involvement on student‟s academic achievements.
