ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of selected teaching behaviours on development of reading skills in pre-primary in Malindi Sub-County. The selected teaching behaviours included: use of teaching/learning resources, teacher-pupil interaction and language of instruction. This is because reading has been a challenge in many countries around the world in spite of many resources that have been directed towards improving the situation. Further, reading is an elemen...
ABSTRACT Board of Management (BoM) is an important organ for school governance or leadership and management structure. Kenya like any other African countries which have undergone decentralization, has only been directing its efforts into devolving the fiscal and physical material entities, while forgetting the people who in reality are meant to assume the management responsibilities at schools. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of Boards of Management in ...
ABSTRACT The Dakar conference of 2000 was concerned with the quality of education and emphasized education for all by 2015 since the UN had declared education a human right. With the increased demand for in-service education and training, SMASSE project was launched in 1998 as a joint technical co-operation between the Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Education and Japan through JICA. Despite the enormous resources geared towards in-servicing of Biology teachers to apply the ASEI ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the factors influencing the implementation of free secondary education in the Kangema District. The objectives of the study were to: find out how increased enrolment in public secondary schools affects the quality of free secondary education in Kangema District; find out the impact of physical and material resources on the quality of free secondary education; establish the role played by the community in the implementation of free secondary e...
ABSTRACT Safety of students in schools is not only vital but central to provision and acquisition of quality education in any country. The ministry of Education in Kenya has issued to schools, Safety Standards Manual that should serve as guide to school administrators to ensure there is safe and conducive learning environment in schools. The purpose of the study was, to investigate the implementation of the recommended Safety Standards in public Secondary Schools in Borabu District, Kenya. T...
ABSTRACT The government of Kenya has invested heavily in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) through establishing new Vocational Training centres (VTCs) as well as upgrading the existing ones to accommodate more youths. However, there are increasing concerns of low enrolment in these VTCs in Elgeyo-Marakwet County. This study was to establish determinants of enrolment in VTCs in ElgeyoMarakwet County. The enrolment levels in these centres over the past five years (2013-2017) h...
ABSTRACT Low literacy skills and performance among primary schools in Kenya have been found to be caused by poor instructional and evaluation methods. To this effect, TUSOME literacy programme undertook to carry out in-service training of lower primary teachers on reading skills with the view to improving literacy skills acquisition among lower primary school pupils. However, there seem to be a disconnect between literacy investment and learner reading achievement in the country and particul...
ABSTRACT The population group that often suffer from limited access and retention in school education includes orphans, children from low income families, indigenous people and other marginalized groups. Worldwide evidence suggests that orphaned children are not accessing education or are leaving school before achieving basic literacy and numeracy skills. Studies have shown that partnerships can help enhance education status of vulnerable groups for instance in the provision of bursaries, pr...
ABSTRACT In Kenya, user charges can be classified as one of the factors that influence the participation in secondary education; they typically add to the cost of education faced by households resulting to children from the poor households being in and out of school due to financial constraints. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of user charges on participation in education among students in Kitui County, Kenya. The objectives of this study were to identify the types of...
ABSTRACT In the last twenty years or so, there has been controversy about what would be considered as appropriate and effective approaches for teaching worship music in a multicultural Christian church setting. There has also been concern about the influence of popular music styles on music training in Pentecostal Churches (PCs) and in particular House of Grace Churches (HOGCs) within Nairobi and its environs. This is inclusive of the ways in which popular music styles have influenced the ap...
ABSTRACT Conflict Management is a theme that has occupied the thinking of scholars of organizations for a long period of time. Educational institutions of Kenya have experienced conflicts of varies nature. The climax of the conflicts was witnessed in the Kenyan Secondary Schools in 2008 when conflicts threatened security in schools. The purpose of this study was to investigate the strategies that principals in Migori District use in conflict management and how they affect performance. Descri...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess the availability, procurement utilization and maintenance of Teaching/learning resources and their effects on teaching/ learning process in public primary schools in Kandara division. The study intended to establish the availability and adequacy of T-L resources in Kandara division, how this resource are procured and also to establish factors which influence the utilization of T- L resources in primary schools in the division. The study also ...
ABSTRACT The underlying purpose of performance appraisal for teachers is to promote quality teaching and student learning outcomes. However, there is a dearth of research-based literature on dependability of student learning outcomes on performance appraisal for teachers in public secondary schools in Kisii County hence the need for this study whose objectives were to establish the relationships between performance appraisal variants of teacher qualifications, professional development, teach...
ABSTRACT Physical Education is an integral and vital part of a learner's school education. It is one of the "core" subjects, endowed with the same status as English, Kiswahili and Mathematics in the secondary school curriculum. It is known for its immense benefits to the students in terms of their social and physical wellbeing. The main purpose of this study was, therefore, to determine the actual status of the Physical Education curriculum in secondary schools. The survey research method wa...
ABSTRACT This study sought to determine the management of adult literacy programme and its influence on learners’ access and participation in the programme in Kajiado County. There has been the problem of low access and participation that makes it hard to achieve the goals of the programme. The objectives of the study were: to determine factors that influence access and participation of learners in adult literacy programme, to determine how the capacity of teachers influence the management...