A STUDY ON THE FACTORS AFFECTING FEMALE STUDENTS PERFOMANCE IN SCIENCE SUBJECTS: A CASE OF MARRY IMACULATE GIRLS SCHOOL

Abstract

There has been increasing concerns relating to issues of equality and equity in the education
sector amongst education specialist and of great concern has been the poor performance of
female students in science subjects. To this effect a study was conducted to find out the factors
affecting female student’s performance in science subjects at Mary Immaculate Girl’s Secondary
School. The researcher used a descriptive research design and the respondents were sampled
using Simple Random sampling Method. The study found out that there are a wide range of
factors that affects girls students performance in science subjects and this include availability of
qualified teachers, availability of teaching and learning materials, students attitude and
perception towards science subjects, parental support and availability of the necessary science
relate infrastructure such as laboratory. It has also been found that the performance of girls at the
school in science subjects is very good.