Abstract:
The intention of the study was to assess the relationship between students, teachers
and parents towards academic performance in the public secondary school,
objectively; it aims to find the problems of low performance in national examination
at Mpwapwa District Council which was caused by low relationship between
students, teachers and parents towards academic performance. In the study the
researcher involved students, teachers and parents.
Data were collected from four selected secondary schools, which were Mpwapwa,
Luhundwa, Mount Igovu and Wotta secondary schools. The methodologies employed
in the study were interview, administering questionnaires and documentary reviews.
The researcher used purposive and simple random sampling where 170 respondents
were involved in the study.
The major finding shows that the relationship between students, teachers and parents
towards academic performance was not good .Also the findings revealed that parents
and teachers provide support to students on academic performance and there are
factors which affect their relationship such lack of effective communication, lack of
several meeting, low understanding on education matters and Distance from home to
school. It was recommended that teachers must create a positive relationship with
their students in order to provide the learning opportunity as well as motivation they
needed to be successful in academic and they should be the tied with parents in
order to discuss problems which were facing students as well as discussing the
strategies to be used in order to improve academic performance also students on
their side should add more effort in studying in order to improve performance in
National examination.
