Abstract:
The study was to investigate the practice of parental involvement among students‟ career
development aspirations in Gurage Zone selected woreda in selected secondary schools. To
achieve the objective, 364 students from grades 11 and 12 were taken from Tadele Darge,
Womhe, Teklehaymanote, Mhalle Amba, and Yejoca two Secondary Schools in Gurage Zone in
SNNPR. The researcher was used employed a cross-sectional design and a mixed approach. In
this study, the researcher used three sampling Techniques. First, the Gurage zone selected used
purposive sampling, simple random lottery sampling to select woredas and schools, and classic
stratified random sampling (CSRS); finally, the researcher used the respondent selected by
systematic sampling (SYS), and the interview respondents selected non-probability sampling
techniques, particularly purposive sampling techniques. Out of the background information
respondents, a questionnaire containing 41 quantitative and 8 qualitative items on the practice
of parental involvement and students‟ career development aspirations was administered. SPSS
version 26 software was used to analyze the collected data. Pearson‟s product-moment and
multiple-regression analyses were employed to see the relationship among variables and how
well the parental involvement variables predicted students‟ career development aspirations,
respectively. The results revealed that the parental involvement variables had a statistically
significant relationship with students' career development aspirations. It has been proven that
correlation analysis proved that students' achievement aspirations (r = 0.239, p-value < 0.05),
students' leadership aspirations (r = 0.197, p-value < 0.05), and students‟ career development
aspirations (r = 0.152, p-value < 0.05) have a statistically significant relationship with practices
of parental involvement. On the basis of these results, it was recommended that principals,
supervisors, teachers, parents, counselors, and educational practitioners give due attention to
parental involvement variables and students‟ career development aspirations in secondary
schools.
