ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to explore the possible factors which contribute to poor academic performance among learners with specific learning difficulties in Mathematics, writing, reading and spelling. The researcher used structured questionnaire to collect data to determine the problem. He then used random sampling of schools and sampled four schools to represent the larger group. The researcher narrowed his research to 10 teachers, two from every school to fill The researcher ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated causes of poor performance in Kenya Certificate of Education in N gooru mdary school in Nyeri district, Kenya. ms caiTied out on the background that performance of stndents in the school has generally been •r over the years. : study was guided by objectives of the study which included: to determine the effects of lack of ;hing and learuing aids/resources, absenteeism due to lack of school fees, poor attitndes towards the ;hers school and studies and weak aca...
ABSTRACT This report 1s about a study that aims at establishing the Gender and academic performance of pupils in Sciences in Primary Schools in Uganda. The study was conducted from ten selected Schools in Makindye East Sub Division, Kampala District. The study involved 122 respondents; 10 Headteachers, 32 teachers and 80 pupils. The objectives of the study were the following; " To compare girl enrolment and performance in science subjects with boys. " To establish if boys differ from girls ...
The central problem of this study was that despite the introduction of free primary education by the government in 2003, the enrolment of mentally retarded children in public primary schools of Rhamu Division, REIAMU division of RHAMU Kenya was low. This low enrolment made the researcher to conduct the study tn find out the factors that cause the problem. The researcher wanted to confirm whether cultural beliefs, lack of adaptive skills, in-adequate assessments lack oftechnical skills am...
ABSTRACT . This sh1dy was about culture as an impediment to girl child education. This sh1dy was conducted at Kifumbira Primary School, Butologo, Sub County in Mubende district Uganda. The objectives of the study were to establish the causes oflow enrolment of girls into schools, assess the extent to which culture has hindered girl child education at Kifumbira Primary School, Butologo, Sub county in Mubende district, document the challenges faced in trying to promote girl child education and ...
ABSTRACT This research was conducted to detennine the factors affecting teacher's implementation of educational intervention in regular primary schools in Mirui zone East Karachuonyo Division Rachunyo district of the republic of Kenya. There are 17 primary schools of which 9 were randomly sampled to be target schools for the study. In the 9 sampled schools 65 teachers were found be present. Only 8 teachers have qualified to have qualified to handle learners with disabilities in regular prima...
Abstract An attitude may be defined as a predisposition to respond in a favorable or unfavorable manner with respect to a given attitude object (Oskamp, 2005). The focus of the study is on school student’s attitudes towards biology subjects taught in the secondary classrooms. The term subject refers to both theory and laboratory classes in secondary schools. Understanding of students’ attitudes is important in supporting their achievement and interest toward a particular discipline. Stude...
ABSTRACT Considering the fact that English is one of the cores subjects in the primary school curriculum, one would have expected learners to perform in it but the reverse, dismal performance in the subject seems to be the case. Indeed, there is declining performance in English which largely contributes to overall poor performance in other subjects tested in the curriculum. It is ironical that in the Kenyan system of education, where there is great emphasis on the teaching of English languag...
The research on the impact English language as a mode of Instruction to the Academic performance in Funyula division, Samia District. The study focused on how English language influences the pupils’ performance in other subjects in primary schools, classifying the different mother tongues in relation to English language towards the performance and to investigate the prevalence of the problem of language barriers in relation to the academic performance. Using a cross-sectional survey re...
Abstract Education is the study only trend to development. It's an essential element for cultural, social and economic progress of any society in a society where education is sound; people are able to fight diseases and ignorance, poverty and oppression. Since the goal of much education is behavioral change, the understanding of behavior afforded by behavioral change theories provides in sight in to the formation of effective teaching methods that into the mechanism of behavioral change in an...
Through the efforts made by the research in trying to establish the causes of child labour, the research used questionnaire method to collect the data. The data was collected from different people distributed allover the division who were the respondents. The findings of the research were as follows: Children in Likoni division engage in child labour due to: o Ill health of the parents o Poverty • Ignorance of parents o Nature of employment In conclusion therefore since the findings...
ABSTRACT I The study looked at assessing the perfor111ance of girl child education in selected pri111ar) schools in Matungu Division. Matungu District. Kenva. ' '-' .... ., There are direct and opportunity costs of education which has strong negative effects on fe111ale educational 'opportunities. The purpose of this study was to assess the factors influencing perfor111rn1ce or girl child educatiop in relation 1,o access. participation and co111pleqo11 rates in Matungu Division. Matungu Dist...
The study was to investigate the causes of poor academic performance among the hearing impaired learners in regular primary schools. The researcher used questionnaires used to collect information from the respondents, the respondents were 25 teachers and 50 learners from the five sampled schools. The researcher found that in comparison with their hearing counterparts, hearing impaired learners performed poorly in academic work due to a number of factors. These include: o Poor methods of...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted in Gathaithi secondary school, Githunguri Division, Kiambu District, Kenya. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of teaching methods on the academic performance of learners in mathematics subject in Gathaithi secondary school. The study used teachers and learners of the above school This book is made up of five chapters. Chapter one deals with introductory part of the research. It gives the general background of the research i.e. bac...
ABSTRACT The research project topic is an assessment of teacher's motivation on academic performance of primary pupils in Tabaka Zone Nyamarambe Division Gucha South District, Kenya. The research project was divided in five chapters which dealt exclusively in all matters that the researcher believed would be of value to the research project. The objectives of the study were to find out whether the quality of education has changed on inception of free primary education. The challenges faced b...