Peer influence and academic performance senior one girls in selected secondary schools in Buwama Town Council in Mpigi District Uganda
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2018-08
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Kampala International University,College of Education
Abstract
This qualitative and quantitative study was undertaken to investigate the relationshz~ between
peer influence and academic performance of senior one girls in selected secondary schools in
Buwama town council in Mpigi district Uganda. The study was guided by the following
objectives: To establish how peer group prior achievements influence senior one girls’
educational attainments; to investigate how group compositions peer has influenced senior one
girl ~ educational attainments; to examine how peer learning environment has influenced senior
one girls educational attainments. The key instrument applied in this study was the questionnaire
which was characterized by the three types of item construction mentioned above, as well as a
selected response format of A Likert scale. A total number of sixty eight respondents were
utilized for this study. Findings indicate that peer group members who scored good marks in
FLE had positive influence on girls’ educational attainments in secondary schools. Students
seemed to do better in their early stages ofSecondary school when their new Schoolmates had a
good record ofprior achievement. My reading of this result was that there was some form of
social interaction between students that promoted higher attainments. And lastly it was asserted
that peer group text book ratio had no sign~fIcant influence on girls’ educational attainments in
secondary schools. Concerning influence ofpeer group composition on girl student academic
performance in secondary schools, findings showed that little pocket money spend per month
had a positive influence to girl student performance. This showed that low money spent by peers
is an important ‘contextual’influence on student attainments. It was deduced that neither a rich
nor a poor family background had any significant influence on girl student academic
performance. On the basis of the findings and conclusions above, the following section presents
the recommendations of the study; Students and school stakeholders should be made aware of
the benefits ofpeer group prior achievements as it greatly influences academic performance of
students in secondary schools; Schools administration and other stakeholders should advise the
parents on the amount ofmoney to give to their daughters as pocket money as it has influence on
the academic performance of the students in secondary schools, School administration and
stakeholders should provide good teaching/ learning environment in order to achieve good
Description
A research report submitted to the college of education open
and distance learning in partial fulfilment of the requirements
for the Award of Bachelors Degree of Education Arts
(secondary option) OF Kampala International University
Keywords
Academic performance, Girls, Peer influence