Abstract:
The study was undertaken to investigate home, school, and teacher factors that
account for poor academic performance of students in the Junior High Schools in the
Brosankro Circuit in the Tano South Municipality. The target population consisted
school children, teachers and parents. The study employed a descriptive survey
design. Also, simple random sampling technique was used to select students, teachers
and parents who participated in the study. The instrument used for data collection was
a questionnaire. Questionnaires were respectively designed for all three categories of
participants on factors that were perceived to be affecting academic performance in
the schools. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as
frequency distribution and percentages. The study found that school factors such as
inadequate teaching and learning materials, absence of reference materials such as
textbooks, unavailability of libraries were major cause of low academic performance.
Again, teachers’ failure to offer remediation exercise for pupils and inaccessibility of
in-service training contribute to poor academic achievement of pupils in the circuit.
Parents’ inability to provide their wards the needed basic materials and engaging their
wards in petty trading after school are contributing factors of pupils’ low
performance. Base on the findings and the conclusions of the research work, the
researcher recommends that Ghana Education Service in the Tano-South Municipality
should help provide adequate teaching and learning materials (Textbooks, reference
materials, teaching aids) to facilitate smooth teaching and learning in the Circuit.
Description:
Dissertation in the Department of Social Studies Education,
Faculty of Social Sciences Education,
submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the award of
Master of Education
(Social Studies)
in the University of Education, Winneba
