Causes And Effects of Girl School Dropout in The Community of Nawampiti Sub-County, Luuka District

ABSTRACT

The study on the causes and effects of students’ school dropouts was carried out in Nawampiti sub-county Luuka District. The purpose of the study was to investigate the causes and effects of school dropout in schools. The research was guided by the objectives of the study which included; finding out the causes of school dropouts in Nawampiti sub-county Luuka District, finding out the effects of girls school dropouts in

the community of Nawampiti sub-county. The sample size of 60 respondents was got from the population of teachers, students, political leaders and local community members. The researcher used interviews, questionnaires to collect the data.

The findings revealed that; poverty, corporal punishments, chronic sickness, long distance of schools, and lengthy learning hours were the major causes of school dropouts in Luuka sub-county. High crime rates high illiteracy levels early marriages and early pregnancies were the major effects of school dropout in Nawampiti sub-county, and building of more schools, free education, compulsory education, provision of lunch in schools, reduction of learning hours were the solutions to students’ school dropouts

in the community of Nawampiti sub-county.

The researcher later recommended that; there is need for parental responsibility, community involvement in education, and stopping of corporal punishments were some of the recommendations made by the researcher after presenting and interpreting the data.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION

APPROVAL

DEDICATION II

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

1.6.3Time 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 girl child 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

2.3 Impact of girl child school dropout 11

2.4 Effect of girl 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

3.8.3 Data analysis 17

3.9 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 19

4.1.3 Sex of the respondents 20

4.1.4 Educational status 20

4.3. The effects of girls’ school dropout in Nawampiti sub county Luuka District

4.4. Solutions to girls’ school dropout in Nawampiti sub county Luuka 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 36

APPENDIX I: QUESTIONNAIRE TO MATURE RESPONDENTS 36

APPENDIX II: QUESTIONNAIRE TO STUDENTS 38

APPENDIX III 40

BUDGET 40