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Development of digital diary for enhanced parental school involvement in Tanzania
Resource type
Journal Article
Authors/contributors
- Jeremiah, Sekione R. (Author)
- Mtebe, Joel S. (Author)
Title
Development of digital diary for enhanced parental school involvement in Tanzania
Abstract
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.
Publication
The African Journal of Information Systems
Volume
10
Issue
3
Pages
246-260
Date
2018
Citation
Jeremiah, S. R., & Mtebe, J. S. (2018). Development of digital diary for enhanced parental school involvement in Tanzania. The African Journal of Information Systems, 10(3), 246–260.
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