TABLE OF CONTENTS
DECLARATION A ............................................................................................................................ .
DECLARATION 8 ............................................................................................................................ .
DEDICATION ................................................................................................................................... .
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ....................... ........................................................................................... .
TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................................... .
LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................................. .
CHAPTER ONE ................................................................................................................................ .
1.0 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. .
Background ................................................................................................ •••••••••••••••••••••••··················
1.1.1 Historical Perspective ................................................................................................................. .
1. 1.2 Theoretical Perspective ............................................................................................................... .
1.1.3 Conceptual Perspective ............................................................................................................... .
1.1.4 Contextual Perspective ................................................................................................................ .
1.2 The Research Problem ............................................................................................................. .
1.3 The Purpose of the Study ............................................................................................................... .
1.4 Objectives: .................................................................................................................................... .
1.4. l Major objective ........................................................................................................................... .
1.7 Scope ............................................................................................................................................. .
CHAPTER TWO ............................................... .................................................................................. .
LITERATURE REVIEW ..................................................................................................................... .
Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... .
2.1 Level of education of parents and pupils performance at school ...................................................... .
2.2 Level of fami ly income and pupils performance at primary schools ................................................. .
2.3 Influence of parent's marital status on performance of pupils ........................................................... .
CHAPTER THREE .............................................................................................................................. .
3.0 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. .
3.4 Sample Size and Sampling Procedure ............................................................................................. .
3.5.2 Questionnaires ................ ............................................................................................................. .
3.5.5 Procedure .................................................................................................................................... .
CHAPTER FOUR ................................................................................................................................ .
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DAT A PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION .................................................. .
4.0 Introduction ......................... ........................................................................................................ .
4.2 Description of the dependent variable: pupils' performance ......................................................... .
4.21 Academic performance .............................................................................................................. ..
CHAPTER FIVE ............................................................................................................................... ..
DISCUSSION, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ..................................................... ..
5.0 Introduction ................... ......................................................................................................... .
1.1.3 Parents' Marital Status and Pupils' Performance ........................................................................ .
REFERENCES .................................................................................................................................. .
APPENDIX A .................................................................................................................................... .
APPENDIX 8 .................................................................................................................................... .
APPENDIX C .................................................................................................................................... .
APPENDIX D .................................................................................................................................... .
APPENDIX E .................................................................................................................................... .
APPENDIX F: AUTHORIZATION LETTER .................................................................................... .