Factors contributing to the primary school girl dropouts phenomenon in semi-arid areas: a case study of tile community of Makuyu Division, Murang’a South District.
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Date
2008-07
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Kampala International University, College of Education, Open and Distance Learning
Abstract
While enrollment is steadily increasing in Kenya, dropout rate continues to be high, with
over 50% of the children, both boys and girls dropping out before completion of primary
cycle. Boys are marginally better than girls with 46.3%. completion compared to 45.8% of
girls. Statistics indicate that the retention of girls have consistently lagged behind that of
boys in all districts in Kenya. The pu~ose of this study therefore, was to identi~ factors
causing girls to dropout of school in Makuyu Division. The study focused on the entire
primary school cycle. It was a survey study which analyzed the occurrence of dropping
pattern of primary school girls within Makuyu Division. The sample comprised of five
primary schools of which, 80 primary school continuing girls, five primary school class
teachers, five headteachers, 40 dropout girls, 20 parents/guardian of the dropout and two
education officers were sampled. This constituted a total of 152 respondents. A
questionnaire and four interview schedules were the main tools used in data collection.
Descriptive statistics, especially percentages and frequencies were used for the data
analysis
Description
A report submitted to the Faculty of Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Award of a Bachelor of Education of Kampala International University
Keywords
Primary school, Dropouts, Girls, Semi-arid areas