Zahid Mahmood Malik
Faculty of Education, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan
ABSTRACT
The Encyclopedia Americana, 1985, (Volume 9) defines dropout in these words: A person who leaves school before completing a course of study. The main objections of the presence study was to find out the causes of dropout at primary level schools in tehsil Sargohda. The total number of respondents were 552 from Sargodha tehsil. For the purpose of selection of sample educationally administrative tehsil of Sargodha was divided into urban and rural area. Overall, 24 primary schools were selected by stratified random sampling method. The results showed that poverty is the most important cause and, as such, the main cause of dropouts from the schools, in Sargodha Tehsil. The other main causes of dropouts were parents carelessness, regarding the child, increase of education expenses, students lack of interest in education, Not gaining immediate economics advantage from education.
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Zahid Mahmood Malik, 2002. Causes of Dropout in Primary Schools: A Study of Primary Schools of Sargodha Tehsil During the Years, 1996-97 and 1997-98. Journal of Applied Sciences, 2: 646-648.
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2002.646.648
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2002.646.648
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2002.646.648
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2002.646.648
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- Government of Pakistan, 1959. Report of the Commission on National Education. Ministry of Education, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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