ABSTRACT Academic performance in schools has remained low in Kenya national examinations for many years. Year after year Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education results fail to reflect the actual ability of students. There has been an increase in the number of day schools in Imenti North Sub-County in Meru County. This increase has brought about positive and negative academic results. Day schools have in past years recorded decline in the national examinations and this has raised concerns am...
ABSTRACT A great number of schools in Kenya have been experiencing a general wave of conflicts and have affected public schools. The purpose of this study wasto investigate conflict management methods used by secondary school head teachers inNandi Central District. The objectives of the study wereto identify the causes of conflicts, establish the type of conflicts, find out how conflicts are managed, identify conflict management methods and determine techniques for conflict resolution in scho...
ABSTRACT Education is the foundation towards enhancing people‟s capacity based on life skills, knowledge and experiential wisdom in order to acquire economic and social prosperity. In spite of the rationale for the development towards Free Primary Education in Kenya, there are concerns regarding its efficiency based on enrolment and graduation rates in most regions in Kenya. This study was aimed at finding out the school based determinants of the flow of pupils through primary school cycle ...
ABSTRACT The study was set out to investigate the extent to which teachers of Christian Religious Education (CRE) implement the life approach strategy in teaching of the subject in primary schools in Voi. Also it was designed to find out whether the teachers use the recommended life approach lesson structure; recommended teaching and learning resource materials; recommended teaching and learning method and why teachers do/don`t use life approach strategy in teaching CRE. The survey was descri...
ABSTRACT 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. The Kenyan government introduced Free Day Secondary Education in 2008 to increase access rates to secondary education which will in turn result in increased completion rates hence increased transition rates. This study sought to determine and analyze the dropout levels of Mixed Day Secondary Schools i...
ABSTRACT Education is an important life process that plays a vital role in forming the foundation for a girl’s future better being, as it equips the learner child with basic knowledge, skills and altitudes that will enable her/him to cope well in life. In Kirinyaga West District most girls who attend public mixed day secondary schools do not complete secondary level of education. Despite Kenya Government’s commitment to enhancement of girl-child education, their completion rate at Seconda...
ABSTRACT Teachers play an important role in the implementation of Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE). Nevertheless, in Mathira Sub-County, a concern has been raised by various reports that the area still lacks an elaborate framework that can make ECDE operate well. Moreover most ECDE centres do not meet the National ECDE service standard guidelines yet teacher related factors contributing to this phenomenon have not been established. The purpose of the study was thus to find out inf...
ABSTRACT As many organisations especially educational institutions seek to fight competition in the market place, many of them have had to adopt different competitive strategies in order to attract and retain customers as well as improve on their performance. Developing quality standards in education as a competition tool and sustaining the coveted quality continues to be a great test for many institutions. Quality in Education is when the education given is claimed to satisfy the students‘...
ABSTRACT The Government of Kenya recognizes the importance of Early Childhood Development, as one of the most important levers for accelerating the attainment of Education for All (EFA) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). There has been tremendous effort by the Government of Kenya (GOK) and collaborating partners to improve the welfare of the Kenyan child through various funding programmes, for instance, community support grants. However, these efforts have been fragmented and with l...
ABSTRACT Teacher Advisory Centres (TACs) were established in Kenya in the early 1970s to provide primary school teachers professional support in their classroom instruction for improved learning outcomes. However, there were reports of teachers’ inability to access teacher professional development activities. There were also reports of poor learning outcomes and teachers’ use of teacher centred teaching learning approaches. This study aimed at establishing the effectiveness of TACs in te...
ABSTRACT Social studies play a vital role of equipping pupils with knowledge and skills to help them cope with the present and future. This allows pupils to participate effectively in their world and explain their relationship with the other people in social, economic and political issues. However, despite the role social studies play in society, in Kenya many classrooms learning environment in primary schools is not conducive and pupils’ performance in social studies has been poor. Therefo...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to identify the effect of educational managers in promoting girl-child education in light of female genital mutilation in Kuria East Sub-county, Migori County. Despite the efforts by NGOs, Education managers, churches and other stake holders in eradicating this practice, Kuria community still persists with FGM thus causing increased deaths, health complications and poor performance in schools in the sub-county affecting the girl-child. The study end...
ABSTRACT The objective of inclusive education calls for children with special needs to attend the same classes in the"regular schools along side with the rest of the pupils with no special needs. Inclusive education is primarily about restructuring school cultures policies and practices so that they respond to the diversity of students in the locality. It sees individual difference•s not as problems to be fixed, but as opportunity for enriching learning and for education system to embrace ...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at investigating the role of cost saving measures in internal efficiency of public secondary schools in Gatundu North Sub County, Kiambu County. The specific objectives of the study were: To investigate the extent to which Curriculum Based Establishment is implemented, to establish the extent to which tendering and budget preparation policies are implemented, to investigate the extent to which teaching and learning time is effectively utilized and to establish the in...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate team cohesion among basketball players in the National Classic League in Kenya. The study intended to establish the differences in social and task cohesion in the teams, teams‟ cohesiveness and the win-loss records, and gender differences in the teams and the teams‟ size and their degree of social and task cohesion. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The target population comprised 180 players derived from teams in...