Abstract/Overview Education relevance in any given country is anchored in its philosophy of education. The Kenyan philosophy of education advocates for provision of a holistic education and training that promotes all the domains of learning. However, in practice academically oriented learning is emphasized focusing on cognitive domain while passively imparting the psychomotor and affective domains. This article reports on data from a study that sought to explore the perceptions on the rel...
Abstract/Overview Secondary school education provides a foundation for acquisition of further knowledge and skills in tertiary institutions of learning. It is a bed-rock where future productive human capital is nurtured to serve the dynamic needs of a nation’s labour market and the economy in general. Education is used to achieve more rapid economic, social, political, technological, scientific and cultural development in a country. In Kenyan education system, mathematics is a compulsor...
Abstract/Overview The performance of mathematics at national examinations at the end of primary is worrying all over the globe and researchers and scholars continue to examine how student’s achievement in the subject can be raised. Formative assessment classroom teaching strategy, ‘FACTS’ is an interactive teaching strategy which involves observing and gathering valuable information during instruction process about a student’s thinking as they solve mathematics tasks. The strategy...
Abstract/Overview The Education Sector in Kenya and other parts of the world has faced many challenges particularly dropouts, which is an indicator of low internal efficiency during the past two decades. This study sought to determine and analyze the dropout levels of Public Secondary Schools in Kericho District of Kenya for the period between 2004 and 2007. The internal efficiency indicator that was examined in relation to school characteristics was dropout rates. Data was collected from...
Abstract/Overview The Education Sector in Kenya and other parts of the world has faced many challenges particularly student repetition, which is one of the indicators of low internal efficiency during the past two decades. This study determined and analyzed the student repetition levels of Public Secondary Schools in Kericho District of Kenya for the period between 2004 and 2007. The internal efficiency indicator that was examined in relation to school characteristics was repetition rates...
Abstract: This study was on Management of Organizational Climate to enhance Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in secondary schools in Ebonyi State. The study was guided by three specific purposes, three research questions and three hypotheses. Literature related to the study was reviewed. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was four thousand five hundred and eighty-five (4585) principals and teachers. This ...
Abstract: The study examined the effect of examination malpractice on the academic achievement of senior secondary school in Enugu South LGA. Three specific purposes and three research questions guided the study. A survey research design was used for the study. The population of the study consists of all the economics students in the government secondary schools in the study area which is twenty-four thousand three hundred and ten (24310) with a sample size of two hundred and forty (240). The...
Abstract This paper explores the causes and effects of a unique begging style involving children as guides in Dodoma Municipality, Tanzania. The rationale for Dodoma Municipality to be the study location is that the begging phenomenon using children as guides is rampant. The study sample involved 40 respondents, of whom 6 were young carers of visually impaired adult beggars, 6 visually impaired adult beggars, 6 young carers of visually impaired adult beggars’ family members and 22 influent...
Abstract This paper presents the findings on teachers’ attitudes towards the use of ICT as a pedagogical tool in secondary schools in Tanzania. Within this broad aim, the paper provides a better understanding of ICT as a pedagogical tool. The development of this study was influenced by various concerns of educational stakeholders about the level of teachers’ competence on the use of ICT as a pedagogical tool. The data collection methods involved questionnaire and interview. A total of 8...
ABSTRACT Essentially, this long essay examines the impact of technology on educational development. The background study covers the area of the long essay’s focus, the significance of the study, the need of the study, the scope of the study and definition of terms which forms the chapter one of as the study. Chapter two examines the impact of technology on education laying emphasis on technology’s impact on learning, impact of technology on the education system and the technology’...