| dc.description.abstract | The study was prompted by the challenges that are bound to go with administering students in the relatively new phenomenon of day-boarding secondary schools.
Thus the topic of study was the Challenges of Administering Students in Day-Boarding Secondary Schools in Kampala District –Uganda.
The study was guided by the researcher’s intention to find out how the students’ state of discipline, the school environment and school curriculum affect the administering of students in day-boarding secondary schools in Kampala district.
The study tested three null hypotheses: The first hypothesis stated that students’ state of discipline has no effect on the process of administering students in day-boarding secondary schools. Findings, however, revealed that the students’ state of discipline has an effect on the process of administering students in day-boarding secondary schools. The second hypothesis stated that the school environment has no effect on the process of administering students in day-boarding secondary schools. Similarly, results showed that the school environment affects this process. The third hypothesis also stated that the school curriculum has no effect on the process of administering students in day-boarding secondary schools. Still, however, results showed that school curriculum affects the process of administering students in day-boarding secondary schools.
A cross-sectional survey research design was adopted to collect information from students, teachers, deputy headteachers and headteachers concerning the challenges of administering students in day-boarding secondary schools in Kampala district.
The schools considered under the study were randomly selected from a sampling frame of day-boarding secondary schools of each political division of Kampala district.
The data was collected using questionnaires and oral interviews. The collected data was then analysed manually by determining frequencies and calculating percentages, entering them in tables and using the chi-square test to determine the statistical significance of the three hypotheses. Information collected from the open-ended questions in the questionnaire and interview was categorized to establish a range of meanings and insights that were compared to the quantitative data and conclusions drawn.
The researcher concluded that the students’ state of discipline has an effect on the process of administering students in day-boarding secondary schools since the administrators respond differently depending on the behaviour of the students. It was also concluded that the school environment has an effect on the process of administering students in day-boarding secondary schools as the boarding students are fully at school day and night, unlike the day students who return home in the evenings.
It was further concluded that the process of administering students in a day-boarding secondary school is affected by the school curriculum because boarding students attend to more co-curricular activities and for a longer time than the day students.
In light of the above a number of recommendations were made in that for discipline to be well administered by the school administration among students of day-boarding secondary schools, a lot more counseling and investigating should be done before punishments and rewards are given.
It was also recommended that parents should be allowed more visits by the school administration to their children while at school in day-boarding secondary schools, to minimize as much as possible the isolation and tension especially among boarding students.
It was further recommended that co-curricular activities should be organized more in the early morning and on weekends by the school administration, for both day and boarding students to equally benefit as much as possible.
Further research was recommended in the areas of: administering teachers and support staff in day- boarding secondary schools; effect of parental guidance on students’ discipline in day-boarding secondary schools and; the influence of the Education Inspectorate on the administering of day-boarding secondary schools. | en_US |
