Parental Style, Attitude and Practice in Supporting Students' Learning in Secondary Schools of Gondar City

Worku Baye

dc.contributor.author	Worku Baye
dc.date.accessioned	2018-01-23T08:30:35Z
dc.date.available	2018-01-23T08:30:35Z
dc.date.issued	2012-01-23
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/8566
dc.description.abstract	ost education systems are currently under challenge to provide quality education to all their students, and effectiveness of the schools to meet the challenge has become one of the most important themes of world education but problem plagued undertaking. This is because maintaining sustainable and successful students' learning is now requiring attention to out of- school influences that can challenge learning tasks of students in school. In light of this, hence, the study is mainly concerned with analyzing and describing parental style, attitude and practice in supporting and influencing students' learning with particular reference to Fasiledes General Secondary School in Gondar City. Jn the course of this study, data were collected by quantitative survey questionnaire from 257 grade 9 and 10 students that were selected using a systematic random sampling technique and included in the study sample. Reliability of the instruments was verified using Cronbach alpha, where the closer the Cronbach alpha is to 1, for higher reliability. The alpha coefficients for this study ranged between 0. 972 and 0. 991 that were considered to be reliable. So, this output was considered to be satisfactory for further investigation and analysis in this study. Then, one sample t-test, correlation and regression were used for the data analysis. Such descriptive analytical techniques as one sample t-test, correlation and regression were used to describe the level of parental style) attitude und practice in supporting students' learning. The study also - attempted to see the relationship among parenting style, attitude and practice in influencing students' learning, and the effect of parenting style and attitude on parental practice of supporting students " learning. The findings of this study revealed that there was positive parental attitude and practice among the students of Fasiledes General Secondary School. It was also indicated that there was positive correlation among parenting styles (except for "' neglectful}; attitude and practice. Finally, the study results indicated that parenting style and attitude affected parental practice. Overall, the study concluded that parents should exhibit positive interactions with their children through displaying responsive and demanding ~ parenting style, favorable attitude and competent parental practices so that they ca	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	psycology	en_US
dc.title	Parental Style, Attitude and Practice in Supporting Students' Learning in Secondary Schools of Gondar City	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US