ABSTRACT Science education is crucial for the understanding of our environment and an essential tool for technological development in any society. Hence nations all over the world continue to ensure that the teaching of science subjects should be done in a manner that enhances the achievement of intended objectives. Science process skills are central to the acquisition of scientific knowledge which is useful in solving problems in our society. In Kenya, students’ achievement in Kenya Certif...
ABSTRACT Young Farmers’ Club (YFC) activities are vital in the mastery and attainment of skills in agriculture subject since it is best learned by use of practical activities. Increased youth participation in agricultural production is necessary and vital in facilitating food and nutritional security. The primary objective of YFCK is to train young people to be productive future farmers. Since secondary school education is terminal to the majority of the Youth, non-attainment of lifelong sk...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of microfinance credit programme is to break the vicious cycle of poverty among the rural women by providing them with capital. Poverty is a global problem; more than 1.3 billion people worldwide live below the poverty line, 70% of them being women. In Keiyo North Sub-County, 48% of the population lives below the poverty line with women constituting 65% of those living below the poverty line. However, few rural women (220) in Keiyo North Sub-County participate in the...
ABSTRACT A guidance and counselling programme in a school assist students to harmonize their abilities, interests and values and thereby develop their full potential. All this is geared towards improving the self-image of the students and facilitating better achievement in academic performance. This study sought to establish the influence of guidance and counselling programme on academic performance of secondary school students in Bahati division of Nakuru district. This study adopted an ex p...
ABSTRACT Guidance and counseling aims at assisting individuals in various aspects of life. In Kenya, the Ministry of Education established guidance and counseling services to deal with formal areas of counseling which include educational counseling and psychological counseling in which home challenges of students in both day and boarding secondary schools can be addressed. The purpose of this study was to find out the influence of guidance and counseling in addressing home challenges faced by...
ABSTRACT The teaching of Agriculture in Kenyan schools is dominated by teacher centered methods such as lecture and class demonstration. Consequently, students perform poorly in Agriculture tests and examinations. This calls for a re-examination of the current teaching methods in order to incorporate more practical learner centered methods in the teaching learning process. This study therefore aimed to assess the effect of video instruction as a complement to conventional teaching approaches ...
ABSTRACT Guidance and counselling is an integral part of the education system in Kenya. Secondary schools have implemented guidance and counselling programme as a government policy requirement. The programme is meant to prevent students’ maladjustment, lead to development of human potential, assist individual to self-actualization and simultaneously benefit the society. The purpose of this study was to investigate challenges encountered in the implementation of guidance and counselling prog...
The objective of this study was to assess the implementation of the quality assurance guidelines of the Higher Education Relevance and Quality Agency (HERQA) in public universities in Ethiopia. The study focused on four areas of the HERQA quality assurance guidelines namely quality of academic staff; quality of teaching, learning and assessment; quality of infrastructure and learning resources; and management of the resources. Empirical studies in Ethiopia constantly showed that the number of...
The purpose of this study was to identify the strategies to overcome challenges facing Brothers CMM sponsored schools in the provision of quality education in Kenya. Four research questions were formulated to guide the study. They included: ways in which Brothers CMM have contributed to the provision of quality education in their schools, contribution of the students, teachers and head teachers in the provision of quality education, challenges perceived to militate against the provision ...
ABSTRACT Advance directives, a form of oral or written statement in which people declare their treatment preferences in the event that they lose decision-making capacity, are known to exist in various cultures of the world. Existing studies on advance directives in Western medical tradition place great emphasis on individual autonomy to the neglect of communal and other associative ties characteristic of the practice in African tradition. This study, therefore, interrogated the practice of a...
The emergence of Information and Communication Technologies and knowledge economies has ushered in a paradigm shift in education. Traditional paperwork is being overtaken by electronic devices as the standard working tools in educational institutions. The need to assess the role of public secondary school principals in promoting the use and institutionalization of ICTs for teaching, learning and school management has become increasingly necessary. Principals now manage technology-mediate...
ABSTRACT The West African Examinations Council results between 2007 and 2013 revealed that students’ performance in Literature-in-English was poor despite various innovative instructional strategies employed in the teaching of the subject. Efforts which aimed at improving students’ attitude to and achievement in the subject had focused more on teacher-related than student-related variables. This study therefore investigated the extent to which student-related variables (English Language ...
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to establish the effect of welfare on teachers’ performance in public primary schools in Bugisu sub-region. Staff welfare was regarded as the independent variable, while teachers’ performance was the dependent variable. The study was guided by five research objectives and five research questions. The study employed a descriptive cross-sectional survey research design - with both qualitative and quantitative approaches, and data was collected from 559 re...
EXTENDED ABSTRACT Livelihoods diversification towards off-farm employment is becoming a norm in developing countries and has some welfare effects. Hence, this study was carried out to unveil the effect of off-farm employment on three dimensions of poverty. These dimensions were farm input expenditure, exposure to income shocks and income poverty. The study adopted a cross-sectional design and was carried out in the Kilombero Valley. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire from 3...
Optical fiber in the communication system has become one of the most cabling attractive and commonly used to protection and safely and also transmission longer distance is possible also contain a large number of data rate and the demand for data communication is growing rapidly due to the increasing popularity of the internet and other factors. In order to meet the growing demands for bandwidth, However, there are some limiting factors for optical fibers during the transmission of the s...