Basic Education Research Papers/Topics

Home Based Factors Influencing Secondary School Students' Discipline In Nzam Sub-County, Makueni County, Kenya

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...

Educational Factors Influencing Learning Of Imaginative Writing Among Form Three Secondary School Students In Kakamega Central Sub County, Kenya

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...

Influence Of Selected Factors On Students’ Academic Performance In Kiswahili Composition In Public Secondary School In Kisumu West Sub-County, Kenya

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 ...

An Assessment Of Challenges And Strategies In Teaching And Learning Of Kiswahili In Public Secondary Schools In Hamisi Sub-County, Kenya

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...

The Effect Of Role Modeling On Secondary School Girls Attitude, Interest And Science Related Career Choice In Lagos State

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...

The Effect Of A Guidance Programme On Students' School Adjustment In Selected Lagos State Secondary Schools

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...

Register In Oral Discourse: A Contrastive Study In First And Second-Language Situations

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...

Virtual Boardroom

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...

Influence Of Selected Factors On Students’ Academic Performance In Kiswahili Composition In Public Secondary Schools In Kisumu West Sub-County, Kenya

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 ...

INFLUENCE OF CONSTITUENCY DEVELOPMENT FUND ON ACCESS, EQUITY AND QUALITY OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN KISUMU COUNTY, KENYA

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...

ASSESSMENT OF FACTORS INFLUENCING USE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NAKURU TOWN SUB-COUNTY, KENYA

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...

Facilitating Science, Technology And Mathematics By Reducing Failure Rates

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.

Youth Restiveness And Education: A Sociological Study Of The Niger Delta Region Of Nigeria

ABSTRACT The primary purpose of this study was to examine the factors that predispose youth of the Niger Delta to restiveness and find out how education in the form of skills acquisition and a general social education can help solve or reduce this social menace. Faulty socialization was identified as the basic reason for this malady. Other reasons include unemployment, poverty, marginalization, the problems in the Nigerian educational system, negative national values, lack of parental guidanc...


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