THE IMPACT OF PLANNING OF UNIVERSAL SECONDARY EDUCATION ON STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE AMONG RURAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN MASINDI DISTRICT, UGANDA. A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY.
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https://doi.org/10.70572/agp.v1i11.40Keywords:
Universal Secondary Education, Student performance, Rural secondary schools, Masindi districtAbstract
Background
Planning is a step-by-step process with objectives and end products that can be evaluated. Planning positively influences firm performance and measurement methods and contingency factors are primarily responsible for the inconsistencies. Strategic planning could lead to a loss of innovativeness and authenticity as well as inflexible and time-consuming plans being equated to strategy. There is an inherent knowledge gap in the relationship between planning and firm performance. This study intends to assess the impact of planning Universal Secondary education on students’ performance in rural secondary schools in the Masindi district.
Methodology
The research was conducted using both quantitative and qualitative approaches using a Survey, using a descriptive cross-sectional research design. Data was collected and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Scientists where conclusions were drawn from tables and figures from the Package.
Results
58.7% of the respondents were males, and the majority (58.0%) were aged 15-20 years. 42.7% of the respondents disagree that; school planning is done concurrently between the administration and ministry with a mean of 2.1. 57.3% of the respondents disagreed that the government provides boarding facilities in USE schools with a mean of 1.7 and 34.7% of the respondents disagreed that the national budgeting and planning gives USE higher consideration with a mean of 2.1.
Conclusion
Planning of USE Influences students’ performance in rural secondary schools in Masindi district. Use Schools whose planning is done by the ministry and more generalized as opposed to those schools that are planned for by the administrators and managers who implement policies perform poorly than those that had an established local planning unit or committee.
Recommendation
The ministry should allow schools to get genuinely involved in planning since they are the direct program implementers.
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