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 .................................................................................... .