Chapter 7: Conclusions and Recommendations
7.5. Limitations
Since Omusati region is regarded as a region with the most schools in Namibia, I feel that the sampling of four schools was too small. Time of collecting the data was also not appropriate enough since it was at the beginning of the school and teachers were not really teaching seriously by then, so this might have affected the reliability of the data collected through observation. There was also a miscommunication between the researcher and one of the principals of the chosen schools, which caused the researcher to look for another school in a short period. The researcher had to write letters to the new school and inform the Omusati regional director of education about the whole incidence.
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