| dc.description.abstract | Parents educational aspirations for their children and educational involvement of
both mothers and fathers are linked to their children‘s and adolescents improved
activities to school, better academic outcome and emotional adjustment. Thus this
study sought to determine the influence of parental involvement in the
implementation of curriculum in public primary schools in Ndeiya zone Kiambu
County. It was guided by the following objectives: to access the extent to which
parents supervision of homework, parent’s participation in school functions, home
chores assigned to pupils by parents, availability of physical facilities provided at
home by parents influence curriculum implementation in public primary school in
Ndeiya zone. The research adopted a descriptive survey design. This was suitable
for this study as it helped the researcher establish the existing conditions at home.
It further allowed identification of standards or norms with which to compare the
parental involvement. This eventually impacts curriculum implementation. The
target population was 265 teachers, 1245 pupils and 805 parents within the study
area. A sample of 81 parents, 54 teachers and 126 pupils were selected through
simple random sampling. A pilot study was carried out on a different set of
respondents to better plan for the research. The test-retest procedure was used for
testing reliability Teachers questionnaire yielded a reliability of 0.76 whereas
pupils questionnaires yielded a reliability of 0.72 this was considered favorable to
warrant reliance on the data collected and its findings. Qualitative and quantitative
data was obtained through questionnaires. This was further analyzed and
presented through narratives, tables and graphs. The study revealed that the sorry
state of education standards at Ndeiya Zone mainly attributed to the fact that there
was little parental involvement. This is a major challenge because parents invest a
lot in education and as such need to take more interest in curriculum
implementation to improve the performance in national examinations. It was clear
that the lack of involvement of parents in school activities hinders efforts to
actualize the curriculum. This in-turn leads to poor performance. The study
recommends the involvement of parents in all aspects of the curriculum
implementation. | en_US |
