| dc.description.abstract | A total of 918 study participants
were included in the study. Of
these, 371 were followed up
from A LOT Phase II whereas
newly recruited cohort
comprised of 547 learners.
The average learner age
was 15.8 years, ranging
from 13.0 to 21.6 years.
By sex, the mean age of boys
(15.9) was slightly greater than
that of girls (15.7).
A bigger proportion of fathers had post
primary education (54.7%) than mothers
(41.2%).
About 4% of the fathers had university level education compared
to 1.5% of the mothers.
Overall over 91% attended school in the last schooling week.
About 3.1% missed school once, 2.3% missed twice, whereas
2.3% missed the entire schooling week.
The main reasons for missing school included lack of school
fees (43%), sickness (32.9%), no learning activity (11.4%), and
did not feel like attending (6.3%).
The proportion of learners who had weekly homework
assignments was higher for Mathematics (94.7%) than for
English (91.6%).
About 80.1% of learners always completed the Mathematics
assignment whereas 86.7% always completed their English
assignments.
About 59% of learners in the follow-up group received afterschool
support as compared to 50% in the new-cohort.
Over half (56.5%) of learners never received support from
their HH members in English with the new cohort contributing
to a higher proportion at 59.9% compared to to the follow-up
cohort at 51.7%..There was a significant association between the cohort and frequency of support they received
from HH members in Mathematics and English with p-values of 0.012 and 0.036 respectively.
This means that learners in the follow-up cohort were more likely to receive homework support in
English and Maths compared to learners in the new cohort. | en_US |
