Factors Influencing Academic Performance of Girls in Public Primary Schools, A Case Study of Buyinja Subcounty, Namayingo District, Uganda

TABLE OF CONTENT

DECLARATION ...................................................................................................................... 4

APPROVAL ............................................................................................................................ 5

DEDICATION ........................................................................................................................ 6

ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................................. 7

CHAPTER ONE ....................................................................................................................... 8

INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 8

1.0 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 8

1.1 Background of the Study ............................................................................................ 8

1.1.4 Contextual Perspective .................................................................................................. 11

1.2 Statement of the Problem ......................................................................................... 11

1.3 Objectives of the Study ............................................................................................. 12

1.3.1 General Objective ............................................................................................. 12

1.3.2 Specific Objectives ............................................................................................ 12

1.4 Research Questions ................................................................................................... 13

1.5 Scope of the Study ..................................................................................................... 13

1.5.1 Geographical Study .............................................................................................. 13

1.8 Operational Terms ...................................................................................................... 15

CHAPTER TW0 .................................................................................................................... 17

LITERATURE REVIEW ....................................................................................................... 17

2.0 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 17

2.1 Theoretical Framework ............................................................................................... 17

2.2 Review of Related Literature ....................................................................................... 18

2.2.1 Girl Child Academic Performance ...................................................................... 18

2.2.2 Family Background of the Girl child and Academic Performance .......................... 20

2.2.4 Parental Involvement in Girl child Academic Performance .................................... 23

CHAPTER THREE ................................................................................................................ 26

METHODOLOGY ................................................................................................................. 26

3.0 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 26

3.1 Research Design ........................................................................................................ 26

3.2 Target Population ..................................................................................................... 26

3.3 Sample size ....................................................................................................................... 26

3.4 Sampling techniques ................................................................................................... 27

3.4.1 Selection of schools ....................................................................................................... 27

3.4.2 Selection of respondents ................................................................................................ 2 7

3.5 Data Collection Methods .......................................................................................... 28

3.6 Data quality control .......................................................................................................... 29

3.6.1 Validity of Instruments .............................................................................................. 29

3.6.2 Reliability ...................................................................................................................... 29

3.7 Data analysis ............................................................................................................... 29

CHAPTER FOUR .................................................................................................................. 31

DATA ANALYSIS PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATION ...................................... 31

4 .1 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 31

4.2 Response rate .............................................................................................................. 31

4.3 General information .......................................................................................................... 31

4.3.1 Gender of the parental respondents ............................................................................ 31

4.3.2 Age of parental respondents ....................................................................................... 32

4.3.3 Age of the Child respondents ..................................................................................... 32

4.3.4 Highest level of education of Parental respondent.. ................................................... 33

4.3.5 Period of time of child respondent in the current school... ......................................... 33

4.4 Family background of the child respondent ...................................................................... 34

4.4.1 Marital Status of the family ....................................................................................... 34

4.4.2 Structure of the family of the child respondent.. ........................................................ 35

CHAPTER FIVE .................................................................................................................... 36

DISCUSSION, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ........................................ 36

5.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 36

5.2 Summary of the findings .................................................................................................. 36

5.3 Discussion of the Findings ................................................................................................ 38

5.4 Conclusions ...................................................................................................................... 41

5.5 Recommendations ............................................................................................................ 42

REFERENCES ..................................................................................................................... 44