| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of the study was to investigate the factors influencing girl child drop-out
in mixed public secondary schools in Kandara Sub-County in Murang’a County. The
objective of this study was to examine family based factors, school environment
factors, personal factors as well as to verify the influence of teacher attitude on girl
child drop-out rate in Mixed public secondary schools in Kandara Sub-County,
Murang’a County. The significance of the study is that it will help the government in
formulation of policy and programme interventions aimed at helping the girl child, by
making the said policies and programmes as proactive as possible to the needs of the
girl child. The study used of both qualitative and quantitative data. The study was
delimited in Kandara Sub-County in Murang’a County. The study was further
delimited to family factors, environmental factors and personal factors that influence
girl-child school drop-out rate. The study was also delimited to only mixed public
secondary schools from a total of 1,146 Form four students and 186 teachers. The
study was constrained by insufficient finances since it entailed assistance of research
assistants at the data collection point. It was also limited by time. However, the use of
questionnaire helped in gathering a lot of information within a short time. Lastly
adequate sources of information and sourcing of data from staff and management was
not easy as some people had issues with confidentiality but this was dealt with by first
seeking a good rapport with the respondents and booking appointments early prior to
the study. of Secondary data has been used by reviewing the existing literature on the
factors influencing girl child drop-out in schools. The study used descriptive survey
design, this is because the researcher would not be able to manipulate the variables for
the simple reason that they had already occurred. The study population was fourteen
mixed public secondary schools in Kandara Sub-County which had a total of 1,146
Form four students and 186 teachers including the principals (Head teachers)
according to statistics given by education officer in Kandara Sub-County (August,
2014). The study utilized a sample size of 297 respondents. The selection of 16 form
four students and 5 teachers from each school was done through stratified random
sampling while simple random sampling was done for Kangui Secondary. The
researcher got the list of all form students and assigned them numbers, after which the
numbers were placed in a container and picked at random. The subject corresponding
to the number picked was included in the sample. On the other hand head teachers
were chosen purposefully in order to provide in depth information concerning the
variables understudy. Questionnaires with structured and semi-structured questions
were used to collect the data. Descriptive survey design was chosen, this is because
the researcher would not be able to manipulate the variables for the simple reason that
they had already occurred. The finding shows that the factors on examination were
positively related to girls drop out of school.the factors identified were school based
factors, home based factors, personal based factors and social cultural factors. The
study findings are expected to enable educationists and policy makers come up with
strategies for helping the girl child. Schools will also benefit in that they will come up
with programmes to support the girl child and keep her in school, parents and
guardians will benefit by becoming knowledgeable and help keep girls in school till
completion.The study recommends that county government recognize that the social
return to female education greatly exceeds those of male education. The study also
recommends that every school should be mandated to organize general parent
meetings to enable the parents to meet teachers and discuss problem affecting their
girls education. These parents should be advised on the need to motivate their girl
child to remain in school | en_US |
