Submitted to the Faculty of Education in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Education in the Department of History of Education and Comparative Education at the University of Zululand, 1975. / The investigator had noted that performance of secondary
pupils, especially in standard 10, had not risen to
expectations despite the application of measures such as
supervision, inspection, guidance, in-service training,
circulars and distance training of teachers.
It became clear to the researcher that factors within society in relation to achievement of secondary school pupils should be researched so as to form a basis on which measures at guidance, pupil assistance, instruction, teaching and supervision can be carried out.
2. METHOD OF INVESTIGATION
For the present study two research instruments were mainly used; namely, literature review and an empirical field investigation. There were five distinct samples to which questionnaires and interviews were administered. In order to reveal home background factors that influence scholastic achievement of secondary school pupils, a questionnaire was administered to 399 standard 7 secondary school pupils. Questionnaires were also administered to principals and standard 7 class teachers. Interviews were administered to 28 school committee members and 5 circuit managers in order to collect additional data on factors that influence secondary school pupils* scholastic achievement. Data were collected from all the subjects during the empirical study, tabulated, and duly discussed. Percentages were mainly used to analyse the pupils* responses whilst statistical methods such as means, weighted means, variance and standard deviation, apart from percentages, were employed in the analysis of data from the school committee members, teachers, principals and inspectors' responses respectively.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uzulu/oai:uzspace.unizulu.ac.za:10530/522 |
| Date | January 1975 |
| Creators | Thembela, Alexander Jabulani |
| Contributors | Ackerman, G.J. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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