ABSTRACT Community participation has remained a key concept in the development process in Kenya and many parts of the world today. Local Authority Service Delivery Action Planning (LASDAP) was meant to achieve community participation with participatory monitoring and evaluation as the driving force within the local authorities in Kenya. Many projects have been implemented across Bondo Sub County yet no study has been carried out to determine the effect of participatory monitoring and evaluati...
ABSTRACT Over the years, numerous intervention approaches have been launched to promote improved technologies in order to attain sustainable development. However, extension approaches, which have been the dominant rural development strategy, have been slow in transforming agriculture resulting from low adoption rate of SWC technologies that were aggressively promoted through extension programmes. Thus, this study examines the adoption and sustainability of soil conservation practices looking...
ABSTRACT Farmer Field School (FFS) approach is gaining prominence as an extension approach in most developing countries and its degree of effectiveness in influencing farmer’s uptake of knowledge for future use is promising. This study was conducted to assess the role of FFS as an approach in disseminating technologies to paddy farmers in Mvomero District. Specifically, the study sought to determine perception of farmers on FFS approach in knowledge development and dissemination of technol...
ABSTRACT Quality education plays a major role in promoting economic growth, enhancing democracy and good governance. Though access to education has improved worldwide, an estimated 250 million learners of primary school age lacking basic reading, writing and numeracy skills whether in school or not. The Annual Learning Assessment (ALA) carried out in Kenya in February in 2012 by Uwezo revealed that majority of class 8 pupils could neither pass English nor Kiswahili reading tests set at class...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out student council involvement in decision making in public secondary school programs of Kwale County, Kenya. The study investigated the extent to which student council members are involved in management and decision making of key school programs to fill the knowledge gap between theory and practice. This study was of a descriptive research design. The target population was a total of 924 executive student council members in the 77 public secon...
ABSTRACT Digital learning integration (DLI) in schools has positive implications for the education systems. DLI programme was rolled out in Meru County alongside other 46 counties in Kenya in 2016 after several postponements. However, DLI programme adoption is attributed to several preparation challenges. This study looked into the integration preparedness on implementation of DLI programme in public primary schools in Meru County. The objectives were: to analyze teachers’ preparedness, ex...
ABSTRACT Career selection is one of the many important choices students make which have lifelong effects. This is because choosing a career that matches one’s interests, skills and values significantly increases their chances for social-economic success, personal fulfillment and happiness. However, whether or not a student is equipped with requisite career choice information to necessitate informed decisions is yet to be established. Although review of literature shows that students have n...
ABSTRACT The growing number of learners with Learning Disabilities (LD), prompted the Researcher to carry out this study,to assess the implementation of individualized educational programme in public primary schools in Taita-Taveta County, Kenya.This study employed the Constructivist Theory of Instruction by Bruner, (1966) and the conceptual framework on variables in the study. The results of this study revealed that teachers used appropriate IEP strategies for identification, teaching and c...
This study sought to find out the influence of use of mother tongue on students’ performance of English in KCSE in Gatundu District, Kiambu County, Kenya. Literature from across the globe, regionally and locally was reviewed to provide various perspectives regarding the use of mother tongue in school and its influence on performance in English. The literature reviewed highlights how first language affects second language. It discusses both content in favour of use of mother tongue and conte...
Education is a fundamental right that leads to realization of other rights and part of development. However, there exists wastage for learners with disabilities, in particular hearing impaired, through repetition, drop out, poor performance and low transition to other levels of education. This study seeks to investigate how psycho-cultural factors affect academic performance of learners with hearing impairment (HI). A focus on the effects of psycho-cultural factors such as self-esteem, peer p...
This study was to assess the role of stakeholders‟ in equity in educational resource allocation and its influence on outputs in public secondary schools in Marsabit County. The study was guided by the following research questions; How are educational resources equitably allocated to public secondary schools in Marsabit County?; To what extent does the socio–economic status of parents influence equity in implementing secondary education in Marsabit County?; What are the challenges facing...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted in Hai District, Kilimanjaro Region in order to determine the impact of milk production on rural livelihood. Specifically the study aimed to (i) determine levels of milk production among small scale dairy farmers (ii) explore market outlets of milk produced by dairy cattle keepers and (iii) assess impact of milk production on livelihoods. The study used both primary and secondary data. Primary data were collected from household survey in the study area using...
ABSTRACT Communities of various sizes in Tanzania are implementing sustainable projects. Despite its increasing popularity, the sustainable community “movement” consists of a diverse set of activities in an early stage of development with no overall national strategy, framework or common measures of success. Thus, this study was conducted to assess factors affecting sustainability of community development projects in Morogoro district of the Morogoro region, Tanzania. Specific objectives...
ABSTRACT Chemistry is a fundamental science and is responsible for many of the materials used in modern society as well as developments and tests carried out in the field of medicine. However, Kenya’s secondary school students’ performance in chemistry has been poor. This poor performance has been attributed partially to teaching methods used in the classroom.Thus, there is need to seek teaching strategies that can improve students’ performance in chemistry and motivate them. The use of...
ABSTRACT Moral reasoning is important as it equips students with knowledge and skills to distinguish between right and wrong. Moral reasoning taught in Kenyan secondary schools through Christian Religious Education (CRE) and other carrier subjects. Despite exposure to moral reasoning content, moral judgement of students is generally unsatisfactory as demonstrated in the acts of lawlessness in schools. This suggests that moral education imparted through the carrier subjects has not achieved it...