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...
ABSTRACT The central problem of this study is that despite the fact that epilepsy is a disease like any other and that an epileptic has normal intelligence, teachers and the society know little or nothing about it and have negative perception towards this problem. Factors leading to negative perception and discrimination have not been fully investigated and understood. The purpose of this study was to find out the teachers knowledge of epilepsy in an inclusive setting. This was clone in selec...
The purpose of the study was to investigate the importance or playing 011 the early childhood education in Wenje Division. Tana River District. Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were to determine the profile of the respondents in regards to: age. gender and acade111ic level. to investigate the i111portance ot· playing in regards to academic achieve111ents. proble111 solving. so_cial· and egoistic competence confidence building and health development and to identify the hindra...
ABSTRACT The researcher was drawn into conducting this study by the report that revealed that the physically challenged learners of Ototo Zone in Homa Bay District—Kenya were performing very poorly in their national exams. The report had also touched on the under utilization of educational resources by teachers of the physically challenged learners. The purpose of the study was therefore mainly to assess the relationship between educational resource utilization and the academic performanc...
ABSTRACT The research study was conducted to investigate challenges ftJced in education provision for the mentally hamfspped learners in an inclusive setting in Nyagachi Zone, Nyamim Division, Nyamira District. The researcher used survey on teachers teaching in regular schools in Nyagachi Zone, where questionnaires were used to collect inti'Jrmation about problems mentally hanaspped learners face in an Inclusive set up in the zone. The researcher targel:Ed 17 primary schools in Nyagachi...
The research sought to investigate whether parents' socio economic status can affect the academic performance of the students in Kosirai division in Nandi District. The main aim of this study is to establish the main course of poor academic performance among the students in Kosirai Division. The low grades at times relate to parents' socio economic status of the peop!e in the area. In carrying out the study, the researcher adopted descriptive survey design. A sample of four secondary sch...
ABSTRACT Whenever there is a language barrier in any society or group members, there is no communication. Kiswahili has been chosen to be an official language for East African Community however, there are some difficulties for its implementation as some parts of East Africa especially in Uganda do not accept Kiswahili due to their negative perception upon it. Therefore, a reasonable solution must be taken particularly in the concerned areas to make sure that the communication barrier arising...
The purpose of the study was to investigate the importance of playing on the early childhood education in Eldoret West District, Kenya The specific objectives of the study were to determine the profile of the respondents in regards to: age, gender and academic level, to investigate the importance of playing in regards to academic achievements, problem solving, social and egoistic competence confidence building and health development and to identify the hindrance to children's playing th...
Mental illness is common today affecting 25% of people at some time during their lives and accounting for 14% of global burden disease. However, the mentally ill people continue to suffer harassment, stigma, and discrimination. There fore it is from this back ground that the researcher wished to assess knowledge, attitude and practices of mental illness among community members of Kiziranfumbi Subcounty, Hoima District. Tile study was descriptive and cross-sectional in nature and employ...
ABSTRACT The study aims at assessing the hearing aid to learners with hearing impairment in Wareng district Kenya. The researcher applied survey method that involved qualitative and quantitative approaches of collecting raw data. Thirty questionnaires were sent to thirty respondents who completed and returned all of them to the researcher. The respondents were randomly sampled. Frequency tables, bar graph and pie chart were used to assemble and analyze the raw data in percentages. The data a...