Development of Digital Diary for Enhanced Parental School Involvement in Tanzania
| dc.creator | Jeremiah, Sekione | |
| dc.creator | Mtebe, Joel | |
| 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.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.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5184 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5184 | |
| dc.subject | Digital diary; parents; teachers; schools; parental involvement | |
| dc.title | Development of Digital Diary for Enhanced Parental School Involvement in Tanzania | |
| dc.type | Journal Article |