Socio-economic status of parents and students’ academic progressive reports on performance in secondary schools in Mandera East District, Kenya.
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2011-09
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Kampala International University ,College of Education
Abstract
This study was to establish the relationship between socioeconomic status and
students’ progressive reports on performance in secondary schools in Mandera
East District, Kenya. It was found out that socioeconomic status of parents from
the sampled schools fairly poor. Male students dominated female students and
majority of the students were aged between 17-19 years. Socioeconomic
statuses of parents affect the academic progressive reports on performance both
positively and negatively. This means that either an increase or decrease in the
performance of the students. The purpose of the study was to establish the
effect of parents’ education level, occupation, and economic status on the
students’ academic progressive reports in secondary schools in selected
secondary school of Mandera East District, Kenya. The research objectives of
the study was to; i) determine the profile of secondary school students in terms
of gender and age; ii) determine the academic level of students’ progressive
reports on performance in secondary schools in Mandera East District ;iii)
determine the relationship between parent’s socioeconomic status and students’
academic progressive reports on performance in selected secondary schools in
the district and iv) determine the relationship between parents’ provision of basic
necessities and students’ academic progressive reports at secondary school level.
The findings indicated that parents’ provision of basic necessities in 4 years, are
significantly correlated and so rejected the null hypothesis with provision vs
overall years (r=.288, sig. = .014). The researcher concluded that the
socioeconomic status of parent and student’s academic progression is
significantly correlated. This implies that the lower the parents’ socioeconomic
status the decline in student’s academic progression. From the findings and the
conclusions of the study, the researcher recommends the need to uplift the
socioeconomic status of parents of students in secondary schools in Mandera
District since it was found to be very low and low in parents’ provision of basic
necessities. The parents should start income generating projects with the small
capital at private basis
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A thesis presented to the school of postgraduate studies and research Kampala International University
Kampala, Uganda in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of master of education
Keywords
Socio-economic status of parents, Academic Progressive, Performance