Impact of school factor-realated incentives on Pupil's absenteeism in Ugandan public primary schools

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ABSTRACT

The study is analyzing the impact of school factor-related incentives on pupil’s absenteeism in Ugandan public primary schools. Were it not for the proper understanding of the education system in Uganda, our endeavor to make progress in the quality of education in the country would be easily blocked. Even if pupil’s absenteeism in Uganda has been a critical problem with regard to the quality of public primary education, especially from the perspective of school factor-related incentives, only few studies have systematically examined its associated determinants in conjunction with school factor-related incentives. The one of the main objectives of the study is to examine the impact of school factor-related incentives; and to investigate the adequate solutions to the pupil absenteeism problem as the base of operations by utilizing dataset which is amassed by an international Non–Governmental Organization UWEZO 2012. School factor-related incentives are divided into four categories: School feeding, whether each of the sample schools has a school library, electricity, and safe-water source. By applying OLS regression using the dataset which includes randomly chosen 81,650 children and 2,279 public primary schools, this study examines how those incentives are correlated with pupil’s absenteeism in Ugandan public primary schools. As a result of estimation, the biggest and most effective way of boosting pupil’s attendance is school feeding. It is because that although Uganda has enjoyed one of the highest rates of economic growth over the last decade, 35 percent of the total Ugandan population is living below the poverty line still. Through participating in school, students also can get benefit such as improving their nourishment and a caloric intake per each day, not to mention that they more frequently come to school. Until now, the Government of Uganda haven’t implemented policy regarding providing school feeding system in their public primary schools. The Ugandan government has the tasks of implementing the policy regarding such incentives which have been shown the negative impact on pupil’s absenteeism and progressing guidelines and standards for fulfilment yet; of course, school feeding should be a top priority. Further research is required to investigate this issues in more detail. Through continued advocacy endeavour and support from communities, better education of all school children in the country can be achieved

목차 (Table of Contents)

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABSTRACT
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• CHAPTER1 1
• INTRODUCTION 1
• 1.1 Background 1
• 1.2 Problem Statement 2
• 1.3 Research Questions 5
• 1.4 Objectives of the Study 6
• 1.5 Significance of the Study 7
• CHAPTER2 8
• LITERATURE REVIEW 8
• 2.1 Effect of School Feeding on Pupil’s Absenteeism 8
• 2.2 Effect of Safe Water Source on Pupil’s Absenteeism 9
• 2.3 Effect of existence of library in school on pupil’s absenteeism 10
• 2.4 Effect of Electricity on Pupil’s Absenteeism 11
• CHAPTER3 12
• METHODOLOGY 12
• 3.1 Conceptual Framework 12
• 3.2 Hypothesis 12
• 3.3 Model 14
• 3.4 Data 16
• 3.5 Description of Data 17
• CHAPTER4 18
• RESULTS 18
• CHAPTER5 20
• DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 20
• 5.1 Discussion 20
• 5.2 Limitation of the Study 22
• 5.3 Conclusion 23
• REFERENCES 25
• APPENDICES 31