Socio-economic status of parents and students academic achievements in selected secondary schools of Nama sub-county, Mukono District
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2018-08
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Kampala International University. College of Education, Open and Distance Learning
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects parents’ socio-economic status on student’s academic achievements. The study objectives were; to find out the academic achievements of selected secondary school students in Nama sub-county, Mukono district, to explain the socio-econornic status of parents and the causes of low socio-economic status of parents in Nama sub-county, Mukono district. Across sectional survey design using both quantitative and qualitative methods was used to collect data from 202 students, 30 teachers, 4 head teachers and more than 40 parents. The qualitative study design investigated the possibility of the relationship between the independent and the dependent variables like student’s feeding, accommodation, and basic needs, parents socio-economic status, causes of low socio-econornic status and ~tcademic performance.
The sample was drawn from day students in selected secondary schools of Nama sub-county especially those in Advanced level. Data on parents’ socio-economic status was gathered using a questionnaire with standard like type scale with closed ranking items. Structured interview guides were used to collect views from the non-students. Data from questionnaires was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and the i-test while interview data was analyzed using frequency analysis by counting the number of times of responses had by the r respondents. The findings suggested that the students which performed poorly were coming from homes of a low socio-economic status.
From the study, the following conclusions were made; firstly, poor feeding, accommodation and lack of basic needs negatively affects the students’ academic performance. Secondly, the low socio-economic status of parents negatively affects students’ academic achievements
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A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the Bachelors’ Degree of arts with education of Kampala International University
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Socio-economic, parents and students academic achievements, Mukono District