The academic perfomance of learners who have retained a grade for another extra year in mathematics, science and english language.
dc.contributor.author | Mangani, Laneny | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-12T12:53:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-12T12:53:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-08-10 | |
dc.description | Thesis | en |
dc.description.abstract | The study was designed to examine the Academic Performance of learners who had retained a grade in Mathematics, Science and English Language. The problem under the study was that there were a lot of Learners who were retaining a grade with the view to improve the academic performance in the District. Having appreciated the study done by Phiri (2016) concerning grade retention in Grant-Aided Schools in Central Province, it was observed that even other government owned Schools were practicing the vise whose effectiveness was not known. Four objectives guided the study; to identify the measures put in place by government owned Secondary Schools in order to enhance grade retention, to establish whether these measures were followed or not, to ascertain the relationship between grade retention and academic performance, and to establish the views of Teachers, Learners and Parents over grade retention. The significance of the study was that other Schools, Districts, Provinces and eventually the Policy makers were availed to a picture of the effects of grade retention in Government owned schools. The sample consisted of four Government secondary schools of Mpulungu District. Population sample comprised of 97 respondents: 28 Teachers, 39 Learners and 30 Parents. To obtain data from these respondents, Questionnaires, Interview guides and Score sheets were used. Questionnaires were administered to Teachers and learners while Interviews were conducted with the Parents. Score sheets were used to collect results from the guidance Teachers on marks obtained in mathematics, English and science before and after retention. Quantitative data was analyzed using SPSS and Statistical packages embedded in Excel while qualitative data was analyzed using themes, bar chats and pie charts. The findings indicated that Government schools had interest in retained learners and that they did put up measures to enhance grade retention. However, it was found that they did not obey the measures set. When the scores were sampled to ascertain whether there was positive, negative or no relationship between the variables, the findings indicated that there was positive correlation. This means that there was improvement in learner performance. Furthermore, when Teachers, Learners and Parents were asked to state their perception of grade retention, it was also established that they had a positive perception. The findings were similar to the ones obtained by Phiri (2016) whose study focused on Grant-Aided schools. The study recommended that grade retention be made a fully-fledged educational Policy bucked by law. The study also recommended that the Ministry of General Education through District Offices develop interest in grade retained Learners and collect statistics in order to plan on how to improve educational standards in the Country. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/7865 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | The University of Zambia | en |
dc.subject | Mathematics--Study and teaching (Elementary). | en |
dc.subject | English language--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Zambia. | en |
dc.subject | Science--Study and teaching (Elementary)--Zambia. | en |
dc.title | The academic perfomance of learners who have retained a grade for another extra year in mathematics, science and english language. | en |
dc.title.alternative | A study of government owned secondary schools of Mpulungu district, Zambia. | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |