Determinants of poor performance of secondary school students in science subjects in Wete district, Zanzibar
| dc.contributor.author | Hamad, Haji Ali | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-11T16:56:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-11T16:56:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description | Dissertation | |
| dc.description.abstract | Based on secondary school examination results, students' failure in science subjects is a current common phenomenon throughout Tanzania. This study examined determinants that have led to this situation in Wete District secondary schools, Pemba Island, Tanzania. The study, intentionally investigated home based aspects, school based issues and educational system attributes that contribute to poor performance on science subjects in Wete District secondary schools. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design in which samples of eighty seven (87) secondary school students were selected randomly and thirty three (33) secondary school teachers purposely selected for the interview. Education officers and some teachers as key informants were selected from district education office. Questionnaires were used to collect relevant primary data for the study. Descriptive statistics and binary logistic regressions were used to summarize the information obtained from respondents in the studied schools. The study was statistically significance with a p<0.005. Findings of this study showed that socio-demographic factor such as sex of respondents (p=0.020), and age of respondents (p=0.011) have negative influence on performance of students in science subjects. School based factors such as attitudes of students developed towards science subjects (p=0.016) and internet access for learning purposes (p=0.040) also have negative influence to science students. Domestic chores showed strongly negative impacts towards learning of science subjects at school (p= 0.008). This study recommends that all education stakeholders should encourage supply of science teaching and learning materials, recruitment of qualified and competent science teachers, provide teachers reasonable salary to make them comfortable in the working station. Moreover, improve science teachers working environment and increases the number of quality boarding schools, encourage early identification of students with special talent in science practice and special focus on science education in early stage. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/6493 | |
| dc.language.iso | es | |
| dc.publisher | Sokoine University of Agriculture | |
| dc.subject | Poor performance-secondary school students | |
| dc.subject | Poor performance-science subjects | |
| dc.subject | Wete district | |
| dc.subject | Zanzibar | |
| dc.title | Determinants of poor performance of secondary school students in science subjects in Wete district, Zanzibar | |
| dc.type | Thesis |