ABSTRACT Malaria burden continues to increase in the tropical developing countries of the world such as Kenya. In Kenya, it is blamed on climatic influences on the environment. The historically high rainfall, temperature and relative humidity encourage prevalence in Western Kenya especially around Lake Victoria. This study investigated the effect of seasonal variation of selected climatic elements on malaria morbidity and mortality in Awendo Division, Rongo District, Migori County, Kenya. It...
ABSTRACT Chemistry teaching and learning is important in any society because it is one of the key subject in the socio-economic development of the society. It is offered in the secondary school curriculum and examined at Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) Examinations. It helps learners to acquire knowledge of facts, principles and events of nature, enabling them to live intelligent and efficient lives in the modern society. Despite its usefulness, the students’ performance in ...
ABSTRACT Mathematics is an important component of everyday human activities and survival. Despite its significance, learners’ performance in the subject has been dismal. Conventional teaching methods used in class have impacted negatively on learners’ achievement, self-concept and perception of mathematics learning environment. This study sought to investigate the effects of Teams-Games-Tournaments Cooperative Learning Strategy (TGTCLS) on Students’ Mathematics achievement, Self–Conce...
ABSTRACT Science education is crucial for the understanding of our environment and an essential tool for technological development in any society. Hence nations all over the world continue to ensure that the teaching of science subjects should be done in a manner that enhances the achievement of intended objectives. Science process skills are central to the acquisition of scientific knowledge which is useful in solving problems in our society. In Kenya, students’ achievement in Kenya Certif...
ABSTRACT The scourge of out-of-school children is real in Nigeria today. It is a common sight to see school-age children, particularly teenagers, who are supposed to be in school roaming the streets. Some are found outside the school performing one form of economic activity of another. Some have been to school but did not complete their education while some of them have never been to school at all. Some of these out of-school children, especially the school dropouts, claimed to have acquired ...
ABSTRACT Performance in physics at secondary school level in Sabatia sub-county has shown no significant improvement in recent years. Analysis by the Kenya National Examinations Council indicates that students do poorly in kinematics and this affects their overall performance in physics. This poor performance has mainly been attributed to conventional methods of teaching physics. It has been observed that schools that perform well emphasize the use of emerging instructional methods such as co...
ABSTRACT Small Christian Communities (SCCs) embody fundamental features of the ecclesiology of Vatican II which encourages sharing and participation of all church members. SCCs serve as the family cell of the church where pastoral work begins and moves towards the sub-parishes, parishes and dioceses. As literature indicates, majority of the Christians in Catholic Church are not strongly inclined towards evangelization. This is based on the fact that the Catholic Church is highly dogmatic, sac...
ABSTRACT The poor performance of students in Social studies at the Junior Secondary School Certificate Examination level, which is associated with students poor mastery of the social studies concepts, was the motivation for this study. This study used on innovative strategy of enhanced concept mapping with the use of instructional materials as a frame of reference for effective teaching and learning of social studies. The study was carried out in two phases, the survey and experimental phases...
ABSTRACT Nursing Education is a humanistic science which focuses on the intellectual development of the learner, compassionate concern for the sick, rehabilitation of the disabled and care for the dying. Hence the goal of nursing education reflects the needs, problems and aspirations of the society. Despite the series of reforms in nursing education, in response to societal needs and challenges, basic nursing education curriculum under investigation has not been evaluated since its introduct...
ABSTRACT This study set out to assess the level of English Language grammatical proficiency of public primary schoolteachers in Lagos State and the opportunities available to them for continuous professional development in the use of language. It also aimed at providing remedial programme for the teachers in areas of observed deficiency. The study employed descriptive survey and the Pretest-Posttest Control Group Experimental designs. The sample consisted of 575 teachers drawn from six Local ...
ABSTRACT The need to produce an enriched uniform curriculum with a view to replacing the existing curricula of the private Islamic schools located in the South-west of Nigeria served as the impetus to carry-out this study. In addition, the study came up as a scientific procedure initiative to facilitate the integration of the private Islamic schools as stipulated in the National Policy on Education. Having elaborated on the need in terms of justification, the study took two giant steps, namel...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation of Gifted Education Programme in Nigeria and draw implications for counselling. The accumulated literature and findings on poor achievement of objectives in the programme and the paucity of literature and research on its implications for counselling motivated the study. The population of study consisted of four categories of people from which a randomized sample of three hundred and fifty-six respondents were drawn. T...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at evaluating the Christian religious knowledge (CRK) curriculum for junior secondary schools in Plateau State of Nigeria. The CRK curriculum is used all over Nigeria for teaching Christian religious knowledge. Survey design was adopted in the study. Eight research questions and six null hypotheses that focused on the objectives of the study were formulated to guide the study. The respondents for the study were a sample of 336 junior secondary III students from 35 j...
ABSTRACT The study examined the relationship between teacher quality and pupils’ performance in RME in basic schools in the Ga-South Municipality. The correlational research design was adopted for the study. Through the use of cluster sampling, multi-stage sampling and proportional allocation of sample size as well as the purposive sampling procedure, 159 basic schools and 532 respondents consisting of 357 pupils and 175 RME teachers were selected to participate in the study respectively. ...