ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the administrative factors influencing the implementation of free secondary education in public secondary schools in Makindu Sub –County, Makueni County. Four research objectives guided this study. The objectives sought to assess the influence of disbursement of funds on the implementation of free secondary education; determine the influence of school size on the implementation of free secondary education; establish the influence of avai...
ABSTRACT Substance abuse has become a major challenge in secondary schools in Kenya. A study carried out in Kenya observed that 20% of adolescents aged between 12 and 22 years smoke cigarettes, 9% smoke bhang while 23% drink commercial beer and spirits. This is the age in which most youths are in schools and colleges. The aim of this study was to find out the incidence and extent of drug abuse among secondary school students in Nairobi Province, Kenya. This information is useful in developing...
Abstract The current academic climate in higher education in Kenya threatens the Kenyan universities' ability to sustain the conditions that support research productivity. Increased demands on government and private funding, a deteriorating physical infrastructure, increased pressure on undergraduate programs, university expansion strategies and general economic climate in the country have raised concerns about the continued capacity of universities to maintain teaching, research productivity...
ABSTRACT This study sought to identity the home based factors that influence discipline among students in public secondary schools in Nzaui Sub-county, Makueni County, Kenya. The research objectives of the study were to determine the influence of parental economic status, parenting styles and family background on discipline among secondary school students -in Nzaui Sub-County. The research design adopted in this study was the descriptive survey. Due to the high number of students in the distr...
ABSTRACT Secondary school students in Kenya learn imaginative writing through English, a second language performed dismally making educators and the general Kenyan public worried. This study established educational factors influencing learning of imaginative writing in secondary schools in Kakamega Central Sub County, Kenya. It investigated the strategies secondary school teachers of English use in the teaching of imaginative writing, Form Three students’ practices used to learning of imagi...
ABSTRACT Composition writing helps learners to acquire writing skills. However, students’ performance in Kiswahili composition at the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination shows that national performance has been fluctuating with a mean of 14.20 in 2008, 15.40 in 2009, 14.32 in 2010, 16.43 in 2011 and 10.43 in 2012 out of 40 marks. From year 2008 to 2012, Kisumu West Sub-County students’ performance in the Joint Evaluation Test (JET) shows that performance was lower ...
ABSTRACT Teaching and learning of Kiswahili in public secondary schools has not yielded desired results in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examinations. In Hamisi Sub-county mean scores remained low at average of 5.43 for the years 2010 to 2014 the lowest in Vihiga County compared to Sabatia’s 5.88, Vihiga’s 5.71 and Emuhaya’s 5.62. Existing studies indicate that increasing effectiveness in teaching and learning positively influence performance. However, challenges in teach...
ABSTRACT This study was focused on the effect of role modeling on secondary school girls' attitude, interest and science related career choice. The research design employed was a pre-test, post-test control group design. The sample consisted of 500 female students randomly selected from ten secondary schools in Lagos State. Data was gathered and analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The findings from the study indicated that 'Printed Role Modeling' and 'Video Role Modellin...
ABSTRACT In Nigeria as in cost countries, the primary emphasis is devoted to the development of Cognitive processes of the child. Much time and money is spent in writing curriculum guides, selecting textbooks, providing facilities, and designing building to ensure meeting this col. By comparison affective development and more specifically, the positive growth of self-esteem and school adjustment is not approached in any systematic way. In too many schools, the importance of a pupil's affectiv...
ABSTRACT In first-language and second language acquisition, the training of oracy skills before literacy skills ensures a natural, efficient learning process. The development of oracy skills should embrace the formal and informal varieties of English. The present study attempts to identify clusters of stylistic features of Register in Oral Discourse by native-English students on the one hand and second language speakers of English on the other hand, It discovers that native-English students i...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to come up with a solution to problems that were faced at National Railways of Zimbabwe Contributory Pension Fund in conducting their board meetings and other general meetings at large. The organization was failing to comprehend the problems with the current system, hence there was need for a practical solution to do away with the problems at hand. Through the use of interviews, document reviews, questionnaires and observations all the Fund‟s proble...
ABSTRACT Composition writing helps learners to acquire writing skills. However, students’ performance in Kiswahili composition at the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination shows that national performance has been fluctuating with a mean of 14.20 in 2008, 15.40 in 2009, 14.32 in 2010, 16.43 in 2011 and 10.43 in 2012 out of 40 marks. From year 2008 to 2012, Kisumu West Sub-County students’ performance in the Joint Evaluation Test (JET) shows that performance was lower ...
ABSTRACT Countries all over the world use devolved funding to finance education in terms of construction of schools, paying school fees for the needy through bursary and developing school infrastructure. Studies in United States of America, United Kingdom, South-Africa and Malawi have revealed that devolved funding has been used to enhance access, equity and quality of education. However, access, equity and quality of secondary education have caused concern within some parts of Sub-Saharan Af...
ABSTRACT The study assessed factors influencing use of Computer Technology in teaching of Mathematics in secondary schools in Nakuru Town sub-counties, Kenya. Research done in developed countries had found that Computer Technology use in teaching was very little in teaching Mathematics. Its use help students learn by supporting computation and by giving abstract ideas a more perceptible form and therefore significant for Mathematics subject which is poorly performed. Existing literature shows...
1.0 INTRODUCTION A crucial sub-theme of this STAN (Lagos) conference is the "promotion of the integrated learning and popularisation of science, technology and mathematics" (STM). Mathematics is the language of science, Science and maths are essential components of technology, and technology is the major factor for a nations technological and industrial development. These three subjects are therefore not only interrelated but also crucial for Nigeria's development.