Browsing by Author "Ssempala, Frederick"

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    Ecology of schooling: Enabling school environment for student engagement in Uganda’s Universal Secondary Education
    (International Journal of Educational Policy Research and Review, 2020) Awori, Sylivia; Sekiwu, Denis; Ssempala, Frederick; Naluwemba, Frances
    Using the Mixed method, we examine the relationship between the school environment and student engagement in USE schools in Uganda. Most study participants agree that the environment in USE schools is generally conducive. There is a positive relationship between the school environment and student engagement although this relationship is still low. This means that student engagement in school activities cannot depend on only the school environment. There are a host of other factors that influence student engagement which the school authority needs to know and utilize in order to improve student engagement. Management of USE schools should provide for counseling and guidance services as well as supporting the integration of values in schools. The Government should construct good libraries and provide up-to-date learning materials like textbooks plus any other reading materials. Government should also recruit experienced and quality teachers into the USE schools, as well as constructing modern science laboratories to support the teaching of science disciplines.
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    Investigating the relationship between school attendance and academic performance in universal primary education: The case of Uganda
    (African Educational Research Journal, 2020) Sekiwu, Denis; Ssempala, Frederick; Naluwemba, Frances
    This study investigated the relationship between school attendance and academic performance in UPE schools in Rubanda district of Uganda. Using data from a sample of 104 participants, the researchers established that UPE schools perform poorer in internal examinations but better in national examinations. The regular school attendees perform differently from the chronic absentees. There is also a positive relationship between school attendance and academic performance (R = 0.365), although school attendance explains only 11.8% variations in academic performance while 88.2% is explained by other factors affecting academic performance. School administrators should identify other factors that are likely to influence pupils' academic performance apart from attendance, as well as strengthening communityschool interaction programmes to help improve attendance in UPE schools.