Extra-Curricular Activities as Predictors of Primary School Pupils’ Academic Self-Efficacy in Kira Municipality, Wakiso District, Uganda
- February 9, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: IJRISS, Social Science
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue I, January 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186
Kayindu Vincent, Asiimwe Specioza
Kampala International University, Uganda
Abstract:- The current study was carried out in Kira Municipality, Wakiso district, Uganda to investigate among other things, the relationship between extra-curricular activities and primary school pupils’ self-efficacy in in Kira Municipality, Wakiso district, Uganda. The study was based on Spearman’s two-factor theory of intelligence and Piaget’s theory of Constructivism. It employed a cross sectional survey design, using quantitative approach. A sample of 400 pupils was taken from ten primary schools. This was got using Morgan & Krejicie (1971) method of determining the sample from a given population. To get the data, the researcher used self-administered questionnaire on extra-curricular activities and a standardized questionnaire of likert scale type, the Morgan-Jinks Students Efficacy Scale (MJSES). The MJSES is an inventory designed for middle school students to gain information about student efficacy beliefs that are related to school success. The collected data were analysed using the the Pearson’s Linear Correlation Coefficient. The findings were that the primary school pupils’ level of participation in extra-curricular activities significantly predict their perceived academic self-efficacy (Sig. 0.003). Based on the finding that the pupils who highly participated in extra-curricular activities highly felt the confidence to perform well academically, and those who participated less in extra-curricular activities felt that they would not perform well academically, the researchers recommended that there is need for the two groups of pupils, the higher and lower participants in extra-curricular activities both to develop a feeling and confidence that they can perform very well academically, and hence work hard to achieve it.
Key Words: – Extracurricular activities; predictors; academic self-efficacy
I. INTRODUCTION
In most countries, the developments of extracurricular activities as well as developing pupils’ self-efficacy have over the years been taken seriously. In Greece, the renowned educational thinkers such as Plato, Socrates, among others, demonstrate the relevance of extracurricular activities in the educational system, and because of their views, extracurricular activities were promoted in the educational system of Greece in Athens and Spartas, with a view that extracurricular activities promote not only fitness but also the learners’ self-efficacy (Sifuna & Otiende, 1994).
