Development of Digital Diary for Enhanced Parental School Involvement in Tanzania
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2018-08
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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
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Digital diary; parents; teachers; schools; parental involvement