Assessment of Girls' Educational Performance; A Study of Shree Mangalodaya Secondary School, Chandragiri-3, Kathmandu

Abstract

Education is one of the most important aspects of human resource development. Nepal's education system is dominated by the examination-oriented teaching, where passing examinations is the only benchmark for performance because there is no internal system of monitoring learning achievements at other levels within an education cycle. The specific objectives of this study are; to examine the girls' performance in an annual examination, to find out factors affecting girls' educational performance in public school and to explore the strategies to improve the performance of girl students. This research is designed under mixed methods of approach in which survey questionnaire, key informant interview, school visit techniques were applied to collect data and information from the respondents. A series of collected sample were analyzed and interpreted by applying concurrent data analysis method. The researcher merged two data set sand compared the results in a descriptive form. The study examined the educational performance of girl students through the recorded documents obtained from school administration. Besides, the recorded document, data were also collected from the school teachers and students via KII and survey questionnaire respectively. Both the recorded documents and data collected from respondents shows that the performance of girl students is acceptable and satisfactory. Even though girls' educational performance is good, there are still some factors affecting their performance in school. However, for the purpose of the study, the factors that affect girl students have categorized as family-related, student-related and school related. Regarding to the strategies to improve the educational performance, respondents suggested strategies like rewarding girl students for being active in classroom, providing extra classes for poor performing students, assigning girl students to different clubs like child club, Red Cross, making availability of sanitary napkins in school etc. Assessing girls' educational performance and understanding factors affecting their educational performance were the specific objectives of the study, the findings revealed that girl students are not actually poor at educational performance as the researcher expecting.