The Impact of Poverty On Academic Performance of Students in Kagadi District.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION i

APPROVAL ii

DEDICATION iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv

TABLE OF CONTENTS v

LIST OF TABLES viii

LIST OF ACRONYMS ix

ABSTRACT x

CHAPTER ONE 1

INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1

1.1 .2Theoretical Perspective of the study 3

1.1.3 Conceptual Perspective of the study 3

1.1.4 Contextual Perspective of the study 4

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 5

1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 6

1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 6

1.5 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 6

1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 6

1.7 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 7

1.7.1 Content scope 7

1.7.2 Geographical scope 7

1.7.3 Time scope 7

1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS 7

CHAPTER TWO 8

LITERATURE REVIEW 8

2.1 Definitive review 8

2.2 Theoretical Review 8

2.3 Conceptual Framework 10

2.4 Review of Related Literature 11

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2.4.1 Effects of Poverty on Academic Achievement 11

2.4.2 Effect of Feeding on Students’ Academic Performance 11

2.4.3 Effect ofparental income on students’ academic performance 13

2.4.4 Effect of school facilities, and equipments on the students’ academic performance.

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CHAPTER THREE 16

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 16

3.0 Introduction 16

3.1 Research Design 16

3.2 Area and target population 16

3.3 Sample Size and Sampling Technique 16

3.4 Data Collection Tools 17

3.5 Validity of Instrument 18

3.6 Reliability of Instrument 18

3.7 Data collection Procedure 18

3.8 Data Analysis 19

3.9 Limitations of the study 20

CHAPTER FOUR 21

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS 21

4.0 Introduction 21

4.1 Characteristics of the students 21

4.3 Students’ opinion on feeding at school 23

4.4 Students’ opinion on provision of school facilities and equipments 23

CHAPTER FIVE 30

DISUSSION OF THE FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS 30

5.0 Introduction 30

5.1 Discussion of the findings 30

5.1.1 Main Objective 30

5.1.2 Feeding and academic performance of students’ performance 31