The impact of poverty on academic performance of students in Kagadi District
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Date
2019-05
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Kampala International University,College of Education
Abstract
The general purpose of the study was to determine the effect of poverty on the
academic performance of students in secondary schools. The specific objectives were;
To examine the effect of feeding on the academic performance of the students in Kagadi
district. To establish the influence of parents’ income on the academic performance of
students in Kagadi district and to investigate the impact of school facilities and
equipments on the students’ academic performance Kagadi district.. According to the
findings, there is a significant relationships between academic performance and poverty
under feeding conditions, provision of school facilities and equipments and home
related factors .The study inferred that poverty affects academic performance of
students and the day to day management of the school. The study found out that poor
feeding conditions affect the performance of students as most of the respondents agreed
with this statement. From the study it is evident that parents do not have stable sources
of income as they don’t pay fees in time and giving enough health facilities to students
and also the study revealed that that Poverty leads to poor provision of school facilities
and equipments especially health facilities which negatively affects students’ academic
performance .The study generally recommended that the government should gear
poverty eradication programs among parents in order to eliminate poverty among
parents as this generally affects the academic performance of the students.
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A dissertation submitted to the college of education,
open distance c-learning in partial fulfillment of the
requirement for the Award of a Bachelors Degree
of Arts with education of Kampala
International University
Keywords
Poverty, Academic performance, Kagadi District