children, most of the time when they were required to report to school authorities only a few turned up. The problems in the field were absence of the some truants, poor record keeping of the students in class attendance registers, and insufficiency of cooperation from school administration. 3.12 Research Ethics All ethical issues for conducting educational research were considered; according to (2011) research should be conducted with highest standards of moral and ethical considerations. The researcher ensured the anonymity of the respondents. This was done by writing names of school through numbers and students were presented by letters as shown in appendix 2 and all respondents were not known by their names or the names of their schools. The researcher informed respondents the real intension of the study, anonymity was observed and sought consent of the respondents before administering the questionnaires and interviews. The researcher ensured not to abuse the respondents in any way and adhered to all procedures of research ethics. The Researcher observed all regulations guiding the conduct of research in the country including having the letter for collecting data from the supervisor and research clearance form from the Open University of Tanzania as per Government Circular of 1980 was issued by the Ministry of Planning and Economic affairs. Before commencing the research, the researcher presented the letter of permission of collecting data which was used to secure the permission from The Chief Inspector of schools in North Western Zone to give questionnaire to the secondary educational inspectors, the City Council Education Officer to collect data from schools, and showing other officials so as to respond to the study. Confidentiality was protected
children, most of the time when they were required to report to school authorities only a few turned up. The problems in the field were absence of the some truants, poor record keeping of the students in class attendance registers, and insufficiency of cooperation from school administration. 3.12 Research Ethics All ethical issues for conducting educational research were considered; according to (2011) research should be conducted with highest standards of moral and ethical considerations. The researcher ensured the anonymity of the respondents. This was done by writing names of school through numbers and students were presented by letters as shown in appendix 2 and all respondents were not known by their names or the names of their schools. The researcher informed respondents the real intension of the study, anonymity was observed and sought consent of the respondents before administering the questionnaires and interviews. The researcher ensured not to abuse the respondents in any way and adhered to all procedures of research ethics. The Researcher observed all regulations guiding the conduct of research in the country including having the letter for collecting data from the supervisor and research clearance form from the Open University of Tanzania as per Government Circular of 1980 was issued by the Ministry of Planning and Economic affairs. Before commencing the research, the researcher presented the letter of permission of collecting data which was used to secure the permission from The Chief Inspector of schools in North Western Zone to give questionnaire to the secondary educational inspectors, the City Council Education Officer to collect data from schools, and showing other officials so as to respond to the study. Confidentiality was protected