CARIBBEAN SECONDARY CERTIFICATE

EXAMINATION

SCHOOL BASED ASSESSMENT

2015

NAME OF CANDIDATE: CANDACY MENTORE

SCHOOL: ACADEMY OF APEX EDUCATION

CENTRE NUMBER: 090123

CANDIDATES NUMBER:

TEACHER: MISS MIEHELLE JAGMOHAM

TITLE: MARRIAGE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGES

ACKNOWLEDEGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

TOPIC/STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

REASON FOR SELECTING AREA OF RESEARCH

METHOD OF INVESTIGATION

INSTRUMENT USED TO COLLECT DATA

PROCEDURES USED TO COLLECT DATA

PRESENTATION AND EXPLANTATION OF DATA

ANAYLSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA

FINDINGS

RECOMMENDATION AND IMPLEMENTATION

CONCLUSION

GOLASSORY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDICES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This School Based Assessment (S.B.A) would not have been

completed or concluded without the obligation and the mutual

support of a few number of persons whom the researcher

wishes to acknowledge.

Firstly the researcher wishes to thank all family members for

understanding and cooperation with her also for released her

from household chores and assistance psychologically and

financially.

Secondly the researcher wishes to thank residents of the

small village paradise, for responding and also took time off

from their occupied schedule of the assistance in filling out the

questionnaire, which was the most important part of the

School Based Assessment.

Finally the researcher would like to pass out a special thanks

to her subject teacher who guided her in every step until at the

conclusion of this School Based Assessment.

INTRODUCTION

This School Based Assessment is concluded with the intention

of examining or investigation of the failure of marriages.

This research will be carry out in the small area called

Paradise. Paradise is one of the small village located on the East

Coast Demerara, it has approximately three hundred fifty (350)

household. Paradise has been considered to be a residential

area of its residents is at a lower level of both social and

economic backgrounds. Paradise also has a mix ethnic y

population it is within forty-five (45) minutes from the capital

city ‘Georgetown’.

The reason why this community was chosen is that the

researcher lives at the community and the researcher has a

middle class standard of living and also her parents are very

well known to the residents of the Paradise which means that

data collection would not be difficult to record, failure of

marriages has be increased and needs immediate attention to

dealt with.

TOPIC

Marriage

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

What are the major effects of marriage? What are the causes of

marriage?

REASON FOR SELECTING AREA OF RESEACH

1. Paradise is one of the major communities that failure of

marriage occurs and are effecting or affecting the homes

of family.

2. The researcher notices that alcohol and drug addiction are

the two main causes of failure of marriage in paradise.

3. The divorce rate are rising up so rapid in this small area

which is not healthy for a goods standard of marriage.

4. As for the child/children of a divorced family are being so

effective their youthful mind.

METHOD OF INVESTIGATION

Questionnaire refers to a set of questions on a form, submitted

for replies that can be used to analyze for valuable

information’s or in order to collect statistical information.

This questionnaire refers to a part of collecting data and has a

number of advantages;

1. It necessitates a good amount of the for you to completed

this questionnaire.

2. All questions expected to have an answer to it.

3. Signatures of yours are not necessary of this

questionnaire.

4. Residents are expected to answer questions with kindness,

honesty and also loyalty.

INSTRUMENTS USED TO COLLECT DATA

Academy of Apex Education

22 Atlantic Gardens

East Coast Demerara

Guyana

January 10th , 2015

REF: A SURVEY ON WHAT ARE THE MAJOR

CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF THE FAILURE OF MARRIAGE.

Dear Respondents,

On behalf of the researcher who is a grade

eleven (11) student of the above mention school, who is

preparing to write the Caribbean secondary examination

certificate in the month of May-June 2015.

As this is the essential part of the social-studies examination,

the researcher has been accommodated or obliges to regulate

a survey on a social problem that is at a high level of influence

to her community. The researcher has distinct to address and

identify the issues of the failure of marriage or divorced.

As it is a consideration of the researcher to seek your

indolence and cooperation in filling out this questionnaire in

honesty and to the best of your skills and ability. Please note

that all information that was given would be kept strictly

restricted.

This questionnaire could be answer simple thick or short

answers where is necessary.

Thank you in participation of your kind and loving help.

Yours Respectively

Candacy Mentore

CSEC Candidate 2015.

QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Sex Male

Female

2. Age Range 15-25

26-35

36-45

46-55

56-over

3. Ethnicy

Portuguese

Africans

Chinese

East Indians

Amerindians

Europeans

Mixed

4. Marital states

Married

Single

Divorce

5. Religion

Christianity

Islam

Hinduism

6. How long are you a resident of this community?

Under 1 year

1-3 years

3-5 years

5 years-over

7. What marriage can be defined as

A vow

When two person living together

It is a proposal

Legal union that contain a certificate

8. What is the most common marriage that occurs in the

community?

Arranged marriage

Shot gun

Family tradition

Marriage convenience

20. What is the major cause of marriage?

Teenage pregnancy

Domestic violence

Financial problem

20. Is divorce a common conclusion to marriage in your

community?

Yes

No

11. What is the major effect of divorce to children?

Suffer academically

Children substantially are incarcerated to commit crime

Experience illness

Suffer from psychological distress

12. What is the most common cause of failure in marriage at

paradise?

Domestic violence

Drug abuse

Infertility

Financial problem

13. Which of the following is more that teenager from divorce

family more likely engaged in?

Engaged in sexual intercourse

Engaged in drugs

Engaged in crimes

Engaged in abusive activities

14. Which of the individual suffer the most after being divorce?

Husband

Wife

Child/children

15. The men who faces divorce which of the following effect

they usually get?

They lose their sense of identity

Paternal instinct is challenged

They usually don’t allow themselves to grieve properly

16. How is it that parents who are single parenting cope with

the children and also remained, do you think any of the

following affected the child/children?

Social problems

Financial problems

Emotional problems

Economic problems

17. What is the main role of socialization the spouse should

share with each other?

Love, affection and attention

Respect

Adour partners

Be at each other sides

18. What is one possible solution do you think can reduce

divorce?

19. Which of the following can reduce divorced rate?

Counseling

Resolving the cause of divorce

Increase of domestic violence

Drug abuse

20. When married couple divorce does they remarried?

Yes

No

PROCEDURE USED TO COLLECT DATA

The topic that the researcher selected of the school based

assessment (s.b.a) is marriage. Then the researcher had

constructed a questionnaire of twenty (20) questions to submit

to the subject teacher to checked and corrected. After the

questionnaire was submitted and done correction the

researcher then typed out one and made twenty (20) copies in

order for distribution.

The time which the researcher distributed the questionnaires

to the residents was around 05:00pm to 06:30pm of January

15th 2015. There was five streets within the small village which

the researcher had shared four questionnaires to one street

two on the left side and two to the right side to two males and

two females for each street. The respondents that were

selected were from the age of fifteen to fifty. The researcher

had given the residents seven days to fill up the questionnaires

which were 22th, January 2015. After this was successfully

finished the questionnaire was then submitted to the subject

teacher once again for correction then when correction was

made the researcher used questionnaires was gathered to

compile a report.

PRESENTATION AND EXPLANATION OF DATA

Question 7 which of the following marriage can define as? Table 1

Fig.1

Pie chart shows how much respondents defined marriage as in

paradise. It can be seen that 30% defined it is a vow, 25%

defined it as when two person living together, 25% defined it as

NO.OF RESPONSE

A vow

when two person living

together

it is a legal proposal

a legal union that contain

a certificate

TOTAL

OPTION NO.OF RESPONSE % OF RESPONSE

A VOW 6 30% When two person living together

5 25%

It is a legal proposal 5 25% Legal union that contain a certificate

4 20%

Total 20 100%

a legal proposal and 20% defined marriage as a legal union that

contain a certificate.

Question 12 what are the most causes of failure of marriage in

paradise.

Table 2

OPTION NO.OF RESPONSE % OF RESPONSE Domestic violence 4 20% Drug abuse 6 30% Infertility 3 15% Financial problems 7 35% TOTAL 20 100

Fig 2

Fig 2 shows the number of response that is the most causes of

failure of marriage in paradise. It can be seen that financial

problem has 30% which is the highest then drug abuse with

30% followed by domestic violence 20% and infertility has 15%

which is the least cause of failure of marriage in paradise.

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5

10

15

20

25

NO.OF RESPONSE

% OF RESPONSE

Question 17 what is the main role of socialization the spouse

should share with each other.

Table 3

OPTION NO.OF RESPONSE % OF RESPONSE Love , affection and attention

6 30%

Respect 5 25% Adour partners 4 20% Be at each other sides

5 25%

TOTAL 2O 100%

Fig3

Figure three shows the percentage of the main socialization.

Love, affection and attention have 30%, respect has 25% also

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NO.OF RESPONSE

% OF RESPONSE

be at each other side has 25% and Adour has 20% of

socialization. These graphs give you a good view of what is the

problem of failure marriage in order for us to think all the

possible solution which can be used to reduce divorce rate in

this small area called paradise.

ANALYZING AND INTERPETATION OF DATA

The researcher knows that is part of this school based

assessment (s.b.a) or report is a very important part which

actually carried 20% of the marks overall. Firstly the researcher

used the questionnaire that was distributed to the residents of

the small village called paradise which had important

information of marriage, the causes effects and even possible

solution for failure marriage also even which type of marriage

mostly occur in the community. Questionnaires was distributed

to five males and fifteen to the females but the researcher

noticed that all five of the males had been able to filled and

returned the questionnaires whereas all fifteen of the females

didn’t twelve had returned out of fifteen. The researcher also

recognized that majority of the residents was at the age

between twenty to forty-five years old (20-45), whereas the

residents who had been able to response to the questionnaire

was living in the small village for five years and even over,

which the researcher had a greater advantage because they

were experience residents.

The three questions that had chosen for the presentation of

data were randomly checked and were set appropriately. The

first question was what can define as marriage? The researcher

gave four options which are a vow, when two persons living

together, it is a legal proposal and a legal union that contain a

certificate. The researcher noticed that most residents had

chosen the first option which is a vow, the researcher realized

that what the residents trying to simplify is that when you make

a vow your responsibility is to honor and keep it between the

persons actually this kind of vow is one that includes god it is a

promise that you made their and you’re not supposed to let go

until death do us part. When two people made that kind of vow

it is no matter all the dangerous path while it is rough or

smooth you need to go through, marriage life has steps to go

through, this is why the researcher thought why the residents

chosen this option the most.

The second question was what are the most causes of failure of

marriage in paradise? Also this question had four options to

choose, the researcher thought that domestic violence would

have been the most cause but according to the report it was

financial problem, there are two ways which the married

couple can solve this problem which is either increase income

or decrease expenses. They can increase their income by

working together and be able to take responsibilities they

should without causing misunderstanding or argument within

the family, however they can decrease expenses by shopping

for much lower quality but strong materials, avoid buying

expensive products.

The third question was what is the main role of socialization the

spouse should share with each other? The options were love,

affection and attention, respect, Adour partners and be at each

other side. Most residents choose the first options which were

aggressive. The researcher recognized that most married

couple does not play that role within the family and they need

even couples might be busy with their working schedule

without these the relationship will not last for long. The

community paradise have a lot of single parent family and

sibling household whereas a few of nuclear family which is not

a good life standard these single parent family and sibling

household can hampered the mind of the youths in paradise

these type of family have a great disadvantage of the nuclear

families.

FINDINGS

The researcher observed that during the investigation of this

problem for failure marriage is that one of the main cause was

financial problems and this does only occur in the community

paradise but also the country or around the world and the

couples doesn’t know how to deal with is matter and due to

these situations the government should be able organize

special counseling for the families. Secondly the researcher

noticed that when fathers are single parents the faces some of

the horrible consequences more than the mothers when the

mother walk out on the family the husband feels frustrated and

this even can lead to being abusive to the child/children which

can also lead to much bigger situation. Thirdly is that divorce

rate is getting more higher each year which isn’t supposed to

happen if married couples lived together for five years it is a lot

most people get divorce this is terrible for the humanity lives,

they made a vow and didn’t kept and this happens all around

the world, the governments should respect this type of life and

find possible solution to reduce the rated of divorce and save

the marriages within the countries.

RECOMMENDATION AND IMPLEMENTATION

The major causes of failure marriage are financial problems,

communication problems and also abuse problems that mostly

occur in the community.

The researcher observed the effects of failure of marriages are

depression and challenge of paternal instinct and even this can

hamper the children of broken marriages from be educated.

These failures of marriages should not be at a high rate or it

should not be increasing rapidly every year. In other to solve

these issues I would do the possible solution of the following

below:

Acknowledge that one partner maybe the saver and the

other the spender understand that both partners have

benefits also agree to learn from each other tendencies

and never hide income or debt.

Being abuse in any way to avoid this you can seek

counseling associations and try to communicate with

partners in a loving way.

CONCULSION

This school based assessment had be successfully

completed with the help and explanation the subject

teacher and he support of the residents also from the

researcher family members.

BIBILOGRAPHY

Name of book: modules in social-studies

Author: rampersaud ramsawak & ralph r. umraw

Internet: social-studies school based assessment sample

Soft copy of a social-studies school based assessment

GLOSSARY

ABUSE - to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way.

AFFECTION - a tender feeling toward another.

CRIME - an act committed or omitted in violation of a law

forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is

imposed upon conviction.

DIVORCE – the legal dissolution of a marriage.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – acts of violence against a member

of one’s immediate family, especially in homes.

HONOR – high respect, as that shown reputation,

esteem.

INFERTILITY – the persistent inability to conceive a child.

ISLAM – a monotheistic religion characterized by the

acceptance the doctrine of submission to god and to

Muhammad as the chief and last prophet of god.

LEGAL – recognized or enforced by law rather by equity.

MARRIAGE – a legal union or contract made by a man

and woman to live as husband and wife.

RELIGIOUS – having or showing belief in and reverence

for god or a deity.

SOCIALIZATION – the modification from infancy of an

individual’s behaviour to conform to the demand of social

life.

PSYCHOLOGICAL – relating to the mind or mental activity.

APPENDIES