Saba Jafar, M. Yasin, Manan Aslam, Sammi Ullah, S. Nasir, U. Ijaz, A. Iqbal, M. Khaliq
{"title":"Factors causing dropout from public sector schools at primary level in Vehari, Pakistan","authors":"Saba Jafar, M. Yasin, Manan Aslam, Sammi Ullah, S. Nasir, U. Ijaz, A. Iqbal, M. Khaliq","doi":"10.52223/jssa21-020202-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52223/jssa21-020202-14","url":null,"abstract":"Pakistan is in front to face pupils' dropout at a fundamental level of schooling. There are several arguments of dropout learners in the beginning stage. The core arguments of the dropout are large classes, poverty, stuffed classrooms, bodily penalty, uneducated family, deficiency of curiosity in learning as pupils, the little excellence of mentor, and harsh actions of instructor with students. The study was conducted in tehsil Vehari. The researcher was selected primary schools of tehsil Vehari. Out of 327 primary school teachers, 200 were selected using a simple random sampling technique; a five-point likert scale used in this research for data collection. The reliability of the questionnaires was measured by the Cronbach Alpha. The resultant calculated value (.899) pointed out the high reliability of the data. Data was collected with reliable and validated questionnaires and analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) to draw conclusions and formulate recommendations. Significant findings of the study were that the majority of the respondents agreed that students drop out due to parental carelessness. A great part of teachers accepted that poverty is the main reason forcing a drop out of school. Many participants agreed that uncaring and professionally less committed teacher is the primary factor of students' dropout. A significant number of the respondents accepted that medium of instruction in the national language.","PeriodicalId":322074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Sciences Advancement","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129759141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Case Study on reading habits of University students","authors":"Iqra Amin, A. Bakhsh","doi":"10.52223/jssa21-020202-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52223/jssa21-020202-16","url":null,"abstract":"Learning through reading is the fundamental process. A case study was conducted on the students of UAF Sub-Campus Toba Tek Singh to examine the reading habits and academic performance. All the students of this campus are considered for the population of the study. The data was collected through an interview and focus group discussion from the sample (N=200) and quantitatively analyzed with the statistical approach such as, Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SSPS). The study revealed that the only 22.0% students read the relevant syllabus books and 17.5% students read the outside the syllabus books, while the vast majority 78.0% and 82.5% didn’t read syllabus and outside syllabus books respectively. They found that the positive association exists between the reading habit of students and academic performance. It is recommended that the students should be encouraged by the parents and teachers to increase reading habits and provide easy access to books.","PeriodicalId":322074,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Sciences Advancement","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125781015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}