Causes and Effects of Girl Child School Dropout (Case Study of Pallisa Secondary School) Pallisa District

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION

APPROVAL

DEDICATION iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv

LIST OF ACRONYMNS viii

LIST OF TABLES ix

ABSTRACT x

CHAPTER ONE 1

INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Background to the Study 1

1.2 Statement of the Problem 2

1.3 Purpose of the Study 3

1.4 Objectives of the Study 3

1.5 Research Questions 3

1.6 Scope of the Study 4

1.6.1 Contextual scope 4

1.6.2 Geographical scope 4

1.6.3 Time scope 4

1.7 Significance of the Study 4

CHAPTER TWO 6

LITERATURE REVIEW 6

2.0 Introduction 6

2.1 Review of Related Literature 6

2.2 Causes of school dropouts 7

2.2.1 Parents Participation on girl child drop out in schools 7

2.2.2 Indiscipline cases and girls’ dropout in schools 9

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2.3 Impact of girl school dropout .11

2.4 Effect of girl child School Dropouts to the Community 12

CHAPTER THREE 14

METHODOLOGY 14

3.0 Introduction 14

3.1 Research design 14

3.2 Area and population of the study 14

3.3 Sampling procedure 14

3.4 Sample size 14

3.5 Instruments data collection 15

3.5.1 Interviews 15

3.5.2 Questionnaires 15

3.6 Reliability and validity 16

3.7 Ethical Consideration 16

3.8 Data processing 17

3.8.1 Editing and spot checking 17

3.8.2 Coding 17

3.9 Data analysis 17

3.10 Limitations of the study 18

CHAPTER FOUR 19

DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION 19

4.0 Chapter Review 19

4.1 Social Demographic Characteristics 19

4.1.1 Age of the respondents 19

4.1.2 Marital Status 20

4.1.3 Sex of the respondents 20

4.1.4 Educational status 21

4.2. Causes of girls’ school dropout in Pallisa sss Pallisa District 22

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4.3. The effects of girls’ school dropout in Pallisa sss Pallisa District 22

4.4. Solutions to girls’ school dropout in Pallisa sss Pallisa District 23

CHAPTER FIVE 24

DISCUSSION, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 24

5.0 Introduction 24

5.1 Discussion of the Findings 24

5.2 Conclusions 30

5.3 Recommendations 31

5.4 Areas for further research 33

REFERENCES 34

APPENDICES 35

APPENDIX I: QUESTIONNAIRE TO MATURE RESPONDENTS 35

APPENDIX II: QUESTIONNAIRE TO GIRL STUDENTS 37

APPENDIX III: BUDGET 39