Persistent students’ poor performance in selected community secondary schools in Tanzania: A case of Nzega District council
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2018
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Mzumbe University
Abstract
The study focused on exploring the factors that contribute to the persistent students‟ poor performance in some selected secondary schools at Nzega District Council in Tanzania. Specifically the study intended to find out the main causes of persistent poor performance of students in selected community secondary schools, to identify the challenges facing students at the selected schools and to find out how and to what extent poor performance is addressed in those schools. Exploratory design was used in which based more on qualitative approach with quantitative elements. A sample of seventy (70) respondents was selected and data collected through questionnaires, interview, observation and documentary review. Data were analyzed qualitatively through content analysis by coding to organise data into categories and identifying patterns among its categories, and finally interpreting the data for understanding meanings and patterns.
Quantitatively data were processed and analysed by Microsoft excel. Findings revealed that poor performance is caused by inadequate number of; teachers, books, libraries, laboratories, also ineffective communication between parents and teachers, academic and socioeconomic challenges, also less conducive environment to teachers and students in learning.
It is recommended that more effort should be made to improve the number of teachers, improve teaching and learning by introducing modern equipment’s, the government should modify the free education policy such as how the parents can contribute in education without disturbing the policy objective so that it can be more effective, this should go together with solving other academic and socioeconomic challenges to education practitioners so that to influence students‟ good performance in community secondary schools in Tanzania.
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A dissertation submitted for partial fulfilment of the award of Master of Arts in
Education (MAED) of Mzumbe University
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Socioeconomic challenges-education, Poor performance-secondary schools, Community engagement-education, Learning environment
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