Relationship between Entry Qualifications and Students’ Academic Performance in Ilala Municipal Council, Dar Es Salaam Region.

Haule, Edward Simon (2022) Relationship between Entry Qualifications and Students’ Academic Performance in Ilala Municipal Council, Dar Es Salaam Region. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The focus of the study was to assess the relationship between entry qualifications to students’ academic performance in Ilala Municipal Council, Dar es Salaam region. The study was guided by four research objectives namely: investigate the entry qualifications of ordinary level students in Ilala Municipal Council; assess the relationship between entry qualifications on the academic performance of ordinary level secondary school students in Ilala Municipal Council; Explore challenges related to entry qualifications on the performance of ordinary level secondary students in Ilala Municipal Council and investigate ways to improve the teaching and learning in Ilala municipal council ordinary level secondary schools. The study applied a mixed method approach i.e., quantitative and qualitative; the study was conducted in five purposively selected community secondary schools in Ilala Municipal Council, Dar Es Salaam region. Whereby, twenty (20) students were purposively and randomly selected from each school forming a total of one hundred (100) students across five schools. Five (5) students were randomly selected from each class i.e. form one to form four totalling 20 students per each school. Similarly, five teachers including two (2) school leaders such as head of school and an academic master; and three teachers preferably teaching in forms 1, 2 and 4 were purposively and randomly selected forming twenty five (25) teachers in total. Thus, the total sample was 125 participants across five selected community secondary schools in Ilala Municipal Council. Based on the study, the findings presented numerous issues which relate to the entry qualifications and secondary school students’ academic performance. The main themes raised include: Language of instruction, unfriendly educational policy, home distance from schools and thus school location factor as well as minimum entry qualifications which affected the quality of teaching and learning. The study recommended that the government should put in place a policy or regulations which will specify precisely the entry qualifications to ordinary level secondary schools just as for advanced secondary schools; there should be a language policy which states clearly language teaching and language qualifications for one to be admitted for ordinary level secondary school studies; schools should strive to implement effectively the competence and outcome based curriculum in order to provide opportunities for students to effectively participate in the instructional processes i.e. taking charge of their own learning, further studies to be conducted around the topic in order to widen the coverage as well as improve the current study. More importantly, other studies can be refined to students of advanced level secondary schools or higher learning institutions while taking focus on other theoretical orientations other than the theories used herein

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