Assessing the Effect of Traffic Congestion on Education Performance of Secondary Schools in Dar es Salaam, Ilala, Tanzania.

The purpose of this research was to assess the effect of traffic congestions on education performance of secondary schools in Ilala, Dar es Salaam Tanzania. The study was justified based on the fact that traffic congestions have a significant effect on secondary school education performance. A total of 170 respondents including 70 academic staff and 100 students were used to collect the data using structured questionnaire and personal interview. The results from descriptive analysis found that students agreed that their academic performance was declining as the result of traffic congestions. Their school motivations were also found to be jeopardizing at average rate. The results from binary logistic regression analysis showed that academic staff performance seems to have a little effect with traffic congestions shown by Nagelkerke R2 statistics test value of 27%. Therefore, academic staff performance seems to have a little effect with traffic congestions unlike students’ academic performance which seems to be affected with traffic congestions. It is recommended that, the Ministry of Education and Vocational Trainings should make sure that official transportation system is offered to students during morning and evening in the big cities like Dar es Salaam so that students be motivated with classroom learning during morning session and to avoid from ant-social practices; secondly, the school timetable should bd re-scheduled especially in the big cities to start late morning and finish early evening so that students may not miss some of lessons and avoid reporting home at late hours. Further study should be on the effect of traffic congestions on degree of students’ learning concentration. Keywords: Effect of traffic congestions, education performance, secondary schools,Ilala, Dar es Salaam