Factors influencing rural school students’ disengagement in advanced level examination

Abstract

Education is an essential concept for the future existence of students in a country. Education prepares the child to fit into society by improving the child's skills, intelligence, and ability. Here, the school can be introduced as the most essential social utility of a society. However, it will be revealed that even though children have a compulsory education period, they ignore it and drop out of school midway. In the research on Factors Affecting Rural School Students' Abstention in Advanced Level Studies, the research problem of why rural school students is absent from advanced-level studies has been studied. The main objective of the research was to identify the factors that influence rural school students to stay away from studying for the Advanced level examination. And for this, mixed research methods were used for this research. The area that can be identified as rural in Medadumbara Education Division, belonging to Theldeniya Education Zone of Kandy District, is used for the research area. Secondary data is used for this research, and the data obtained from several schools along with Teldeniya Education Zone and previous research reports were used for this research. In this study, it was possible to identify that the economic situation due to the prolonged closure of schools due to the epidemic situation and the loss of interest in going to school influenced the children to drop out of school. As a proposal that can be presented for the situations contained in the conclusion of this research, the streamlining of school management and supervision activities, teaching using technical methods suitable for the new social system, educating adults, educating students about the importance of education, etc. Keywords: Education, Rural school, Advanced level student, Dropping out of the school,