Authors : Ddamba Hassan; Nabukeera Madinah; Matovu Musa; Ssali Muhammadi Bisaso

Volume/Issue : Volume 10 - 2025, Issue 7 - July

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/25jul958

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Abstract : The investigation inspected influences of parental participation upon a student’s academic achievement within selected Secondary schools sponsored by the government under Uganda’s Kibaale Town Council, Rakai District. This investigation had been directed through three objectives specifically; i) To examine the influence of provision of scholastic materials on students’ academic achievement, ii) To examine the influence of monitoring academic activities on students’ academic achievement, and iii) To examine the influence of counseling and guidance on students’ academic achievement in selected government aided secondary schools in Kibaale Town Council, Rakai District, Uganda. The investigation used a quantitative methodology in conjunction with a cross-sectional research design. Educators selected as of the two Secondary schools sponsored by the government under Kibaale Town Council, Rakai District, made up the sample size of 40 respondents. To address the phenomenon under research, both descriptive and linear regression analysis were applied. According to the study, the availability of educational resources significantly and favorably affects a student's academia performances within subset of Secondary institutes sponsored by the government under Kibaale Town Council, Rakai District, Uganda. Additionally, the study also revealed that monitoring academic activities bears very sturdy constructive as well as statistical substantial impact upon a student’s academic achievement within selected Secondary schools sponsored by the government under Kibaale Town Council, Rakai District, Uganda. This investigation supplementary reveals that counseling plus guidance holds sturdy optimistic plus statistical substantial impact upon student’s academic achievement related to selected Secondary institutes sponsored by the government under Kibaale Town Council, Rakai District, Uganda. This investigation concludes noting parental participation holds substantial impact upon student’s academic achievement in that a slight upsurge within providing of scholastic supplies, monitoring academic activities, and counseling as well as guidance ought to consequently result towards improvements within students’ academic achievement under selected Secondary institutes sponsored by the government under Kibaale Town Council, Rakai District, Uganda. This investigation commends, schools’ administrations ought to include parents in schools’ management committees or boards towards participation under making decisions as well as policy development as this fosters a sense of ownership and shared responsibility for students’ success, which directly may be having substantial impact upon a student’s academic achievement within Secondary schools sponsored by the government under Kibaale Town Council, Rakai District, Uganda.

Keywords : Parental Participation, Provision of Scholastic Materials, Monitoring Academic Activities, Counseling and Guidance, and Students’ Academic Achievement.

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