Development of Digital Diary for Enhanced Parental School Involvement in Tanzania

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 mont...

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Published in:	The African journal of information systems Vol. 10; no. 3; p. 246
Main Authors:	Jeremiah, Sekione R, Mtebe, Joel S
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Baton Rouge Kennesaw State University 01-05-2018
Subjects:	Diaries Parents & parenting Questionnaires Teachers Tanzania
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Summary:	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.
ISSN:	1936-0282