The Causes Of Student's Academic Failures In Selected Secondary Schools In Mashuuru Division, Kajiado District, Kenya.

ABSTRACT

The study examined the "causes of student's academic failures" with the

objectives of finding the causes of student's academic failures in secondary

schools and find out the possible solutions to curb or eliminate this problem.

The researcher used sample random method to collect information from various

respondents in Mashuuru division, Kajiado district in Kenya. The researcher used

descriptive survey design with the aim of collecting information from respondents

on their opinion in relation to student's academic failures in Mashuuru division,

Kenya.

The study found out that three factors are the most contributors for student's

academic failures. Namely parents/ family causal factors, teachers/academic

causal factors and the students/ personal causal factors; implying that these

three parties are not joining their efforts together to produce better results.

Conclusively Both students and teachers agreed positively to a significant degree

on poor study habits, lack of personal discipline, and to some extent absence,

emotional disturbance, lack _of capacity necessary for high school works as

indicators of failures. Moreover, form one to form three high school subjects that

revealed the most number of failures were in Mathematics, chemistry, physics

and in English areas of learning.

This study recommended that Teachers should widen students' awareness of the

advantages one can get from attending classes regularly and studying his

lessons habitually. In addition, Parent attitudes toward underperforming gifted

children should be positive to impact motivation.