| dc.creator |
Jeremiah, Sekione |
|
| dc.creator |
Mtebe, Joel |
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| dc.date |
2019-04-15T18:45:47Z |
|
| dc.date |
2019-04-15T18:45:47Z |
|
| dc.date |
2018-08 |
|
| dc.date.accessioned |
2021-05-03T13:14:27Z |
|
| dc.date.available |
2021-05-03T13:14:27Z |
|
| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5184 |
|
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5184 |
|
| dc.description |
The study examined the use of digital diary as a tool for enhancing parental school involvement in
Tanzania. The development of the digital diary followed eXtreme Programming agile method where 87
parents and 6 teachers from St. Florence school were involved. Parents and teachers were given six
months to use the tool before testing for its effectiveness using data from 7 teachers and 156 parents
through semi-structured interviews and questionnaires respectively. The study found that the majority of
respondents (84.4% of parents and 96.7% of teachers) indicated that the digital diary was useful tool as
enabled them to track children’s progress via their smartphones. Moreover, computer generated reports
showed that messages to/from parents were delivered with approximately 90% success rate. This
research argues for schools to adopt and use digital diaries for easy, engaging, and effective for better
parental school involvement |
|
| dc.subject |
Digital diary; parents; teachers; schools; parental involvement |
|
| dc.title |
Development of Digital Diary for Enhanced Parental School Involvement in Tanzania |
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| dc.type |
Journal Article |
|