The Influence Of Peer Group On The Academic Performance Of Secondary School Students

The purpose of this study was to investigate peer group influence on student academic  performance in secondary schools in Bukwo. The objectives wci‘e to investigate whcther peer group affect the academic performance of adolescent. To determine whether peer influence  has any effect on academic performance of children from broken homes. To find out whether peer influence determines variation in academic performance of male and female students and "to investigate whether age does determine the extent to which peer influence affects academic performance of students. This study en p1oye‹$ FI CJCscriptive survey dest in that was a type of research undertaken with the aim of describing characteristics of variables in a situation.  'the  target population of they study was iorm one stucients in boarding secondary schools in Bukwo district.

A sample was a smaller group of subjects obtained from the accessible population (Mugenda and Mugenda 2003). It was concluded that peer group members who scored good marks in UCE had positive influence on studcnt academic performance in secondary schools. Students seemed to do better in their early stages  of Secondary school  when their new Schoolmates  had a good record  of prior achievement. My reading of this result was that there was some form of  Soc1a1  interaction between students that promoted higher attainments. The researcher recommends that Students and school stakeholders should be made aware of the benefits of peer group prior achievements as it greatly influences academic perfoimance of students in secondary schools, Schools administration and other stakeholders should  advise the parents on the amount of money to give to their children as pocket money as it has influence on the academic performance of the students in secondary schools and School administration and stakeholders should provide good teachin% learning environment in order to achieve good academic performance