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    Forms of Students' Indiscipline and their Influence on Academic Performance among Public Boarding Secondary School Students in Makueni County, Kenya
    (International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies (IJIRAS), 2025-05) Omwaka, Josphine; Gabriel, Madanji
    Indiscipline among learners has been and continues to be a major concern among education stakeholders across all levels of learning in Kenya and globally. Several education scholars have occasionally associated indiscipline cases among learners with poor academic performance. However, relevant scientific literature is hardly available on indiscipline and its influence on academic performance among learners in public boarding secondary schools, especially with reference to Makueni County. Therefore, this study statistically assessed different forms of students’ indiscipline behaviors and their influence on academic performance in public boarding secondary schools in Makueni County, Kenya. The study is significant as its findings will help education stakeholders to understand how different forms of indiscipline behaviors among high school students affect their academic performance. Therefore, policy makers will be in informed position to form comprehensive programmes to curb indiscipline for improving academic performance in the county. The study targeted a population of 73,836 education stakeholders in Makueni County including 293 deputy principals, 293 guidance and counseling teachers and 73,250 students. Multistage and simple random sampling techniques was used to select 498 respondents, which included 29 Deputy Principals, 29 teachers in charge of Guidance and Counselling, and 435 students from 29 public boarding secondary schools in Makueni County. Data was collected through Questionnaires. The study applied different quantitative techniques in the analysis of data through which insightful findings were established. Noise making was established as the most common form of indiscipline behavior among the secondary school students while indiscipline behaviors among students were established to have negative and statistically significant influence (r = - 0.388; p value = 0.010) on their academic performance. The study concludes by recommending the need for cultivation of self-discipline among the students as means of safeguarding their academic performance.