Factors affecting girls’ academic performance in Zanzibar Public Secondary Schools: A Case of Mkoani District in Pemba-Zanzibar.

Maulid, Mahmudu Awesi (2023) Factors affecting girls’ academic performance in Zanzibar Public Secondary Schools: A Case of Mkoani District in Pemba-Zanzibar. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The research was conducted to analyze the factors that affect girls’ academic performance in public secondary schools of Mkoani District. The objectives were to assess the communities’ awareness on girls’ academic performance, to explore the factors that affect girls’ academically and to identify the strategies taken to improve their performance in public secondary schools. Descriptive survey and questionnaire were used. The questionnaire was administered to students, parents, subject teachers, head teachers from five secondary schools and DEO of Mkoani District. The sample of the study constituted 126 respondents who were selected by systematic sampling. They responded to a specially designed questionnaire. The data collected were analyzed descriptively using the IBM SPSS 20 vision. This study revealed that Girls’ academic performance is low due to the factors of love disturbance, home domestic activities, poverty, misuse of mobile phone, and long distance from home to school, family conflict, and luck of self- identification, poor family support, living with single parent, inferiority and diseases. Also low effort and truancy, lack of motivation, poor respect, teachers’ efforts and their attendance, geographical location of the school and child labor. The study recommends that the government and the community should consider educating girls and motivating them so as to perform better. Also provide hostels to secondary schools and create conducive environment for learning. The societies around public secondary schools should be educated and criticized on the negative attitudes they have that girls are just labor of doing domestic work and not for studying, The study also provides a note to teachers in public secondary schools to finish their syllabuses on time so as to help students perform better in their national examination. Last but not least, parents and other stakeholders of education should educate girls on proper use of mobile phone for effective learning and not otherwise. The research shall be used as a reference for overcoming the problem of poor academic performance of girls in Zanzibar public secondary schools. Keywords: Academic Performance, Secondary school and Female educational situation

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