Relationship between students, teachers and parents towards secondary school academic performance in Mpwapwa district, Tanzania
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2019
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Mzumbe University
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.
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A dissertation submitted to the School of Public Administration and Management (SOPAM) in partial fulfillment of the requirements for award of the Master of Science in Human Resource Management (MSc-HRM) of Mzumbe University
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School teacher, Academic perfomance, Public secondary school, Academic, Perfomance
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