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    Effects of parents’ involvement on the learners’ academic achievement in upper primary classes of Mukura sub county, Ngora district,Uganda.
    (Busitema University, 2024) Ajilong Betty
    The purpose of this study was to examine the Effects of Parents’ Involvement on the Learners’ Academic Achievement of Pupils in Upper Primary Classes of Mukura Sub County, Ngora District. A sample of 120 purposively randomly selected respondents including primary school teachers, Head teachers, parents’ and pupils. This study was intended to address the three specific research objectives: to explore the school activities through which parents’ are involved in supporting primary school children academic achievement; involvement in children performance in primary schools and to examine the difference in performance between primary school pupils who receive parents’ support from pupils who completely do not receive it. A case study design was used to collect data from the respondents using questionnaires, interviews and documentary reviews that were administered to parents’, teachers, Head teachers and pupils. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to get respondents subjective views and simple percentages from the frequent responses for descriptive purposes. The SPSS 22.0 version was used for data analysis of simple for descriptive statistics and content analysis for qualitative data. The study indicated that there were several methods used in public schools to involve parents’ and guardians into education processes of their school children in supporting primary school pupils’ performance in English. The study recommended conducting a quantitative study in order to test hypotheses by comparing results from public and private schools for comparative and generalization purposes.