Causes and Effects of Girl Child School Dropout in The Community of Chawente Sub-County, Apac District

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION

APPROVAL ii

DEDICATION iv

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT V

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

1.6.3Timescope 4

1.7 Significance of the Study 4

CHAPTERTWO 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 student drop out in schools 7

2.2.2 Indiscipline cases and Students’ dropout in schools 9

2.3 Impact of school dropout 11

2.4 Effect of 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

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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 17

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 of the community of Chawente sub-county, Apac

district 22

4.3. The effects of girls’ school dropout in the community of Chawente sub-county in

Apac district 22

4.4. Solutions to girls’ school dropout in the community, of Chawente sub-county in

Apac 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 STUDENTS 37

APPENDIX III: BUDGET 39