Abstract
<p align="left">Concerns have been raised about the failure of students in quality of academic performance in public sector school over the past few years. Therefore, this research study was conducted to explore the factors which affect the quality of academic performance of students in public sector schools. Mixed methods research design was used to explore this phenomenon in the district Sheikhupura. Using multi-stage random sampling techniques out of 45 boys and girls school in the district 10 boys’ and 10 girls’ schools were selected. All stakeholders— students, parents, teachers, and heads from those schools were selected in the sample of total 300. Quantitatively close ended self-developed questionnaires were used to collect data from 120 students and 120 parents. Qualitatively semi-structured interviews were used to generate data from the participants—40 teachers and 20 heads from the schools. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques and thematic description approach was used to analyze the different data sets. Various causes of students’ failure and remedial suggestions were discovered in the analysis. The results have serious implications for school education department of the province, Punjab. </p><p align="left"><strong>Keywords:</strong> academic performance, failure, public sector schools, students</p>
Highlights
Academic performance is defined as the ability of students to study and remember facts and describe their knowledge orally or on paper to demonstrateVol 5 No 2 (Dec 2018)Failure in Quality of Academic Performance different skills that students have achieved during study period (Suleman, Sawar, Aslam, Lodhi, & Hussain, 2012)
Students of class 10 were taken as a sample and they had already appeared in the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Examination (BISE)
The main objective of this research was to identify the factors that had a negative effect on the quality of academic performance of students in public sector schools of Tehsil Sheikhupura
Summary
Academic performance is defined as the ability of students to study and remember facts and describe their knowledge orally or on paper to demonstrate. Failure in Quality of Academic Performance different skills that students have achieved during study period (Suleman, Sawar, Aslam, Lodhi, & Hussain, 2012). This research attempted to investigate factors that affect quality of academic performance in public sector schools of Tehsil Sheikhupura, Punjab, Pakistan. Just like the deteriorating quality of education everywhere in Pakistan including Punjab, the condition is no different in publicly funded schools in Sheikhupura. The purpose of this research was to investigate factors that cause failure in academic performance of students in public sector schools of this city
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