ABSTRACT Conflict is a necessary and useful part of organizational life. It is a dispute that occurs when interests, goals or values of different individuals or groups are incompatible with each other. Success and failure in the school system depends on the principal’s effectiveness that manifests in his ability to plan, organize, coordinate, direct and control the activities of the school system so as to achieve the goals and objectives of the school. The academic performance of secondary ...
xii ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the institutional based factors influencing the implementation of ECDE programmes in public ECDE centres in Matungulu Sub-County. The study was guided by four objectives. The research objectives sought to establish the influence of provision of physical facilities on implementation of early childhood development programmes in public ECDE centres; determine the influence of provision of teaching and learning resources on the implementat...
ABSTRACT Life skills are skills for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with demands and challenges of everyday life. The classroom education alone does not contribute completely to solving these challenges. International Development Agencies have acknowledged the importance of life skills for the purpose of solving some of these problems. The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between Head teachers‟ management of life skills educ...
ABSTRACT This study sought to examine the influence of school principals' communication strategies on students’ discipline in public secondary schools in Kisasi Sub-County, Kitui County. Kenya. The study objectives sought to: establish the influence of principals’ use of school assemblies, guidance and counseling, notice boards and suggestion boxes as communication strategies on students’ discipline in public secondary schools in Kisasi Sub-County. The target population for this study w...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of teacher related factors on students‟ performance in KCSE in public secondary schools in Kibwezi Sub County. Four research objectives guided the study. The objectives sought to establish the influence of teacher job satisfaction on students performance in KCSE exam, determine the influence of teacher motivation on students performance, assess the influence of teacher professional qualification on students performance in KC...
ABSTRACT School attachment is an important component of teacher education. Public universities have thus designed their own rules and regulations that guide school attachment practices to enable student teachers put into practice the theory they have learnt. However, school attachment practices by teacher training institutions remain a contentious issue. The purpose of this study was to establish the effect of school attachment practices on student teacher performance in teaching practice in ...
ABSTRACT Non-teaching staff are central in school management, in terms of formulation and implementation of programmes in secondary schools. Non teaching staff provide support services in management of schools and are recruited and remunerated by school management. The existing labour laws and policy directives from the government stipulates opportunities available for employees. The labour laws are meant to enhance management of school programmes and non-teaching staff in public secondary sc...
ABSTRACT School Feeding Program (SFP) was actualized in Kenya in 1980 by the public authority of Kenya in a joint effort with World Food Program (WFP). Dinners gave at schools improve quality training that adds to the monetary advancement of a nation. The examination analyzed connection among SFPs and students' learning productivity in open grade schools in Kitui County. The investigation evaluated students' maintenance, participation, change from a class to another and enrolment. Old style L...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the principals‟ leadership practices and their influence on students‟ discipline management in public secondary school in Makindu Sub County, Kenya. The study was guided by four research objectives: To examine the influence of principals‟ democratic leadership style on public secondary school students‟ discipline in Makindu Sub County; determine influence of principals‟ communication on public secondary school students‟ discipli...
ABSTRACT The study set out to examine the learning challenges facing orphans at junior level in Mzilikazi District . The research design used for the study was a qualitative method approach because it is effective in gaining an understanding of the underlying reasons of the challenges especially when it comes to sensitive issues of the learners. The population of the study consisted of 6 schools which are in Mzilikazi District. The random sampling methods was used to select the learners, tea...
ABSTRACT It was observed that students' performance for more than a decade both in internal and external examinations had been deteriorating even though the schools were staffed with qualified professional teachers. Thus there was a need to examine the relationship between teacher performance indicators and student academic achievement in Lagos State public senior secondary (SS) schools which is the concern of this study. Using the school as a unit of analysis, the entire population of SS 2 t...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the status of administrative use of computers in secondary schools in South-West Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was used carry out the assessment. The study sample consists of 24 four public schools and 16 private schools in Lagos State, and 44 public schools and 15 private schools in Ogun State selected randomly. Ten basic administrative duties and eight selected school characteristics were used as the basis for the assessment. A model was proposed...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to investigate the teacher's role perception and the expectation of this role by the teacher and his reference groups in selected secondary schools in Ondo State. A Questionnaire called STRES probed respondents' expectations regarding instructional, social/civic, guidance/counselling, management and personality roles of the teacher. It was hypothesised that there would be no significant differences in teachers' role perceptions and the expectations of such rol...
ABSTRACT The study examined resource quality and service delivery in four universities in South East Nigeria by ascertaining their accreditation status as well as the teacher-student ratios by various programmes taught in those institutions. It also examined the availability and adequacy of classroom communication materials; physical facilities as well as the number of lecturers in relation to teaching effectiveness. Furthermore, the study also ascertained how lecturers’ professional devel...
ABSTRACT This study examined the fidelity of implementation and eficcacy of Universal Basic Education (UBE) Programme in Kwara State. It investigated the gap between policy formulation and policy implementation in the UBE programme. The belief by various stakeholders in education that the huge investments made in the UBE programme had not been correspondingly compensated for by improved efficiency in basic education classes precipitated this study. A descriptive survey research design was use...