ABSTRACT The study was mainly to examine how free food provision at school impacts on the academic performance of pupils in KAKUZI division of Thika East district. The study was intended to answer the following research questions: How is the accessibility of free food by the pupils? How does free school feeding affect pupils' attendance at school? And how does class attendance affect pupil performance in class? The methods used questionnaires, interviews, observation and review of literature...
TABLE OF CONTENTS -------·--·--- -~.· DECLrRATION ............................................................................................................. 2 iPPROVAL .................................................................................................................... 3 ACKNOVLEDGMENTS ............................................................. : ................................. 4 CH.APTER ONE ..............................................................................
ABSTRACT School children, especially those found in the Early Childhood Development (ECD) stages to !earn through the use of martial. Leaming has been known to take place more through seeing than hearing. Many modem schools have understood this fact and are putting more emphasis on them. The study is therefore about the role of teaching and learning materials in facilitating learning. It will endeavor to investigate the stress out by both private and public ECDS to the acquisition and use of ...
ABSTRACT This study is designed to establish the factors influencing academic performance of girls in selected primary schools in Bukedea Town Council despite the fact that they are assessed through periodic performance tests, do continuous assessment tests (CATS), and term and provision of free primary education under universal primary education (UPE) which is aimed at providing quality Education for all school age going children. This study adapted a descriptive survey design as a major me...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between poverty and the quality of education in primary schools in Butula Division Butula District Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were to investigate the relationship between the effects mentioned and academic performance in primary schools Butula Division Butula District and to investigate the role of the community on alleviating poverty and improving education in primary schools in Butla Division Butula Distri...
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ABSTRACT This research was to analyze the causes of poor academic performance in Kitovu parish Masaka District and help the students to develop insight and suggest how to improve on their academic performance. The study was guided by specific objectively respectively that is; to identify and test the possible socio-economic problems and analyze the measures that have been put forward by the government to reduce the socio-economic.problems affecting the academic performance of the students ...
ABSTRACT This work contains an evaluation on the effects of administration on academic performance in private secondary schools. Private schools started as an initiative to provide quality education and help government to deliver education services to the community. Much as this initiative was meant to support government effort to educate the citizens, the performance has so far not been satisfactory. The study is reported in subsequent chapters. This was guided by three independent variable...
ABSTRACT Policy-makers and the public generally agree that teacher training is valuable. But agreement ends when it comes to figuring out how best to train the state’s educators. Many expect new teaching recruits to arrive in the classroom —just out of college and with a smattering of student teaching under their belts — ready to go. They expect teachers to be armed with the right tools and skills, but reality has taught us this doesn’t happen Recent research statistics has shown that...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
ABSTRACT Since the introduction of formal education, there has steady growth in enrolment in secondary schools in Kenya. This in tum has raised concerns about the quality of education especially with respect to equity, access, relevance and efficiency of secondary education. This study sought to investigate school management on academic performance, students' achievement in numeracy of k.c.s.e was used as indicator of quality. The study utilized survey design, purposive and stratified random...
ABSTRACT This investigation sought to determine the relationship between teaching methods that teachers employed in teaching English language and the academic performance of secondary schools students of Winam The researcher was prompted to carry out this study after an outcry that the integration approach in the teaching of English was not yielding optimal academic results, in the 8-4-4 system of education in Kenya. Thus an empirical examination of the effects of teaching methods and academ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine teacher- learner relationship and academic performance of learners in Amukura division Teso South district. Specific Objectives of the study were: Investigate the effect of teacher learner relationship on performance of pupils, determine how discipline affects teacher learner relationship and investigate the relationship between effective communication and positive teacher learner relationship. The research is presented in both qualitative ...
ABSTRACT The intellectually challenged learners have been met with many difficulties and obstacles in life in the societies they live in. examples of these problems are discrimination, rejection, neglect, child maltreatment, use of derogatory language and negative attitude towards them. Some of their parents see them as a burden and a sign of bad omen to the family. They are regarded worthless and cannot be benefited from. In some societies they are misused of uncivilized traditional practic...
ABSTRACT This study examined the effect of parent's involvement in education on the academic performance of the mentally retarded children in public primary schools of Kenya specifically the study intended to: determine whether cultural beliefs among the parents affects the enrolment of mentally retarded children in the zone; determine whether the parents teach their mentally retarded children adaptive skills; To establish whether the parents of mentally retarded children play their role eff...