| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of parental involvement on preschool children's achievement in numberwork activities in Kiogoro Division, Kisii County. A case study research design was used in this study. The researcher targeted two schools which were randomly sampled; where one was a public pre-school while the other was a private pre-school while the other was a private pre-school. The study target a population of 2- headteachers, 5 - pre-school teachers, 104 - parents and 115- children. The instruments for the study were questionnaires for pre-school teachers and head teachers, interview schedules for parents and children and a document analysis guide. The researcher collected the data alone and analyzed it using Statistical Packaging for Social Sciences which computed percentages, mean scores, standard deviation and frequencies. The findings of the study established that parental involvement in children's learning greatly promotes the performance of the child in number work activities, most children whose parents were involved in their learning by communicating regularly with teachers, providing them with basic needs and supporting them with their school work recorded high mean scores in number work activities. Therefore the study recommends that parents should be educated by other stakeholders on the provision of resources in promoting children's performance in number work. Parents and teachers should also be sensitized on modalities of overcoming the challenges like poverty, uncooperativeness, lack of resources and time among other challenges that tend to affect the performance of number work activities in the Division. | en_US |
