The Academic Performance of Orphaned Learners in Key Stages One and Two: A Basis for Project Development

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Educational status is an important indicator of children's well-being and future life opportunities. While this is an ideal situation for all children, the case may be different for orphans due to the challenges they go through on a daily basis.

Being the fundamental unit of society, family support is playing an important role in the academic performance of the learners. But how about the case of orphan learners? This query led the researchers to conduct this investigation.

METHODS

This investigation is generally descriptive research. The respondents are 57 orphaned learners in San Pablo Central School. Simple descriptive statistics were used to determine the homogeneity and heterogeneity of data collected. To answer if there's a significant relationship between the respondents' profile and academic performances, Regression was employed. And if singly or in combination, being orphaned to mother or father and/or both affect the quality of education, Multiple Regression Analysis was employed. The data collected were tested at the 0.05 significance level.

RESULTS

The results revealed that there's a significant relationship between the respondents' profile and academic performances. Being orphaned to mother, father, and/or both parents significantly affect the quality of education. This can be taken into account that academic performances of orphaned learners rely on the basic foundation unit of society thus emotional and physical support to these learners are highly recommended for them to cope and move forward.

DISCUSSIONS

Being a solo parent is an everyday challenge but in this study, it has been revealed that these orphans are being guided mostly by their mothers while some are by their father, relatives, and grandparents.Meanwhile, the respondents were dominated by the academic performances of 80" 84 %.

The results uncovered that there's a significant relationship between the respondents' profile and academic performances. Being orphaned to mother, father, and/or both parents significantly affect the learners. This can be taken into account that academic performances of orphaned learners rely on the basic foundation unit of society thus emotional and physical support to these learners are highly recommended for them to cope and move forward.