Instructional Materials And Academic Performance In Barwessa Zone Baringo North District Kenya

ABSTRACT

School children, especially those found in the Early Childhood Development (ECD) stages to

!earn through the use of martial. Leaming has been known to take place more through seeing

than hearing. Many modem schools have understood this fact and are putting more emphasis on

them.

The study is therefore about the role of teaching and learning materials in facilitating learning. It

will endeavor to investigate the stress out by both private and public ECDS to the acquisition and

use of teaching and learning materials.

The research design will be descriptive survey aimed at gathering information from the target

population. The tools used are open and closed ended questionnaires that will help the researcher

source the primary data.

The sample frame will be drawn from the sample population ofECD schools in Barwesa Simple

and purposive sampling techniques will be adopted to provide the sample. Purposive sampling

used to select Barwesa zone. Simple random sampling will be used to identify 8 ECD schools

out of 12 schools within the zone. This provides a more than 66.7% of the target population.

Computer packages such as Microsoft Excel to enable presentation in frequency tables graphs

und pie charts for easy interpretation and understanding by the users. Discussion, conclusion and recommendation will be made based on the finding of the study.