Use of logistic regression model to identify the key determinants of academic performance in primary school on the basis of school supply
Abstract
There is a general consensus that student performance at pnrnarv school has been deteriorating.
111isstudy examines the determinants of academic performance in public primary
schools in Kenya from the schools side. While most of the studies done on performance
determinants rely on the school expenditures. Family background and the stability of the community,
this paper looks at the factors that determine performance from the school supply as
the government does allocations per pupil. The data used ill this study comes from the Impact
of instructional material and in-service teacher training study in 200() by the ministry of education.
While the data lacks information on family background. the povertv index and province
were used. A Logistic regression was estimated based on this data with the perfornance (that
is those who perform and those who do not perform) as the dependent variable and a set of
school variables as the explanatory variables The results presented in this paper suggest that
the province. classsize. mailability of reeding programme and who recommends the books
for the student determines the perfornance ill primary schools. The data suggest that head
teachers and subject teacher should be gi\ e a chance to be deciding on books to be bought. It
also suggests that permanent classroom and small class size should be considered inorder to
improve academic achiev ements.
Citation
M.Sc (Social Statistics)Sponsorhip
University of NairobiPublisher
School of Mathematics, University of Nairobi
Description
Master of Science Thesis