Data collected to investigate the influence of learner-based factors on academic achievement in government-aided secondary schools in Bushenyi district, Western Uganda
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Background As education is key in stimulating all round development of any nation, every child has a right to education. Teachers are called upon to understand how different factor; both internal and external to the school may influence the academic achievement of learners so as to apply appropriate interventions for the best of the learners. Thus, this article presents a dataset to investigate the influence of learner-based factors on learners’ academic achievement in government aided secondary schools in Bushenyi District. Sharing of datasets shows transparency, gives room for replication of findings, and permits comparison with other independent data sets. Methods Data in this study was collected from seven government-aided secondary schools in Bushenyi district, Western Uganda for the first author’s masters research project in educational management pursued at Kampala International University Western Campus (KIUWC). The data presented is quantitative and was collected using a cross-sectional survey design in that collection of data was at a single point in time. Two categories of participants were involved: (a) 333 learners who completed a learner’s questionnaire, (b) 42 teachers who completed a teacher’s questionnaire. The proposal of the study was cleared ethically by the Research Ethics Committee of Kampala International University Western Campus. Thereafter, written consent was sought from the participants. The selection of the schools and participants was by simple random sampling. The collection of data took place in the month of April, 2025. Data description This dataset is in the form of raw data saved as two sets in MS Excel 2016 on https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/m4hx9vc8sj/1. The first set contains data relating to learners’ responses entitled “Responses from learners” and the second file contains data from teachers entitled “Responses from teachers”. The files containing the mentioned data are quite similar in that each file has two sheets: the first sheet gives the raw data and the second sheet gives the explanation of variable codes Conclusion Providing a dataset related to our study is of great significance in that it informs policy makers such as the Ministry of Education and Sports officials and other education officers about how specific factors related to learners influence their academic achievement and this can guide in the development of training programs for teachers and the implementation of educational policies that promote equity in schools.
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