ABSTRACT The study focused on organizational climate and teacher job performance with a view to describing the context in which teachers carry out their duties and how this has impacted on their performance in private and public schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. It examined organizational climate variables which include school Characteristics (Class Size, School facilities and School Policies) and School Process ( Leadership Style, Motivational Strategies) in relation to Teacher Job Performanc...
ABSTRACT: Interest is defined as the most important factor of socio-psychological motivation of human's activities. parents are seen not merely as illiterate but as integral parts of governmental bodies who shape and implement policy on Science and Technology. To the schools offering Science and Technology sUbjects/courses, the parent's roles may be as problem, as police, as para-professional aide, and as pre-school educator. Adult Education strategies of motivating parents to play their role...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate challenges facing teachers in implementing the mother tongue as a medium of instruction in Gweru urban primary schools which enrol learners from diverse language backgrounds. The objectives of the study were to solicit challenges facing teachers in implementing the mother tongue policy and to find out the measures that have been taken to enhance implementation of the language policy. The research study was confined to Muwunga cluster in Gw...
Abstract The study investigated the contribution of learned literacy and numeracy Education Support Programme (LANES) Teacher Professional Skills on Enhancing STD I and II Pupils' Literacy Skills in Tanzania. Andragogy Learning Theory guided the study in order to understand the impact of learned LANES teacher professional skills on enhancing STD I and II pupils' literacy skills specifically the extent to which the learned LANES professional skills enhanced children’s reading and writing co...
ABSTRACT The main aim of this dissertation is to study on how low school fees payment in schools affects schools administration. Despite the researches done by many researchers, the issue of low school fees payments were left untouched. The problem statement relies on understanding the effects on impacts of low school fees payments in running schools. In order to comply with the problems a research was undertake. The overall image that emerges from the literature depicts that high failure rat...
Abstract Nowadays, agriculture extension programmes are practised in many parts of the world. There is a mixture of results about the effects of agriculture intervention programmes. The literature shows that the interventions are ineffective and have limited diffusion. On the other side, it shows that interventions are effective. Following different arguments about the effects of agriculture extension, this paper adopted Propensity Score Matching (PSM) to analyze the effects of the District ...
ABSTRACT Background: currently, there is a progressive increase of students with disabilities, particularly children with hearing impairment who need assistive technology to enhance their abilities in information management and communication in their daily life activities. Objective: this study was guided by four specific objectives including; to assess teachers’ conceptions on the use of assistive technology, to assess teachers’ competences on the use of assistive technology devices, to...
ABSTRACT Following independence in 1961 the government of Tanzania invested heavily in Tanzania’s manufacturing sector allowing the sector to grow smoothly. Despite improvement in macro-economic stability in the 2000s, the performance of Tanzania’s manufacturing sector remains unimpressive. Manufacturing industries have received widespread public attention especially after Altman (1968) developed a Z-score model of measuring financial distress of the firms. However, most of the researche...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess developmental characteristics among children with special need in inclusive pre-primary schools. It was mainly guided by Cognitive Development Theory, Social-Cultural Theory of Learning and Montessori Theory. The study involved 5 inclusive pre-primary school‟s teachers and 20 children with special need (10 visual and 10 hearing) aged 5-6 years old. The participating teachers were purposively selected. Data were collected through observations...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to examine effective strategies used by teachers to improve teaching and learning in overcrowded classrooms in public primary schools in Chemba district. Specifically, the study was guided by three specific objectives, which were to: explore coping strategies used by teachers in managing overcrowded classrooms in public primary schools; examine teacher’s perception on managing overcrowded classrooms in public primary schools; and assess the challenges of ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate students‟ engagement in Income Generating Activities and their impacts on academic performance in community secondary school students in Mbozi District in Mbeya Region. The study was mainly qualitative involving a cross-sectional survey, supported by some elements of quantitative data. It used purposive and stratified random sampling procedures to obtain 139 respondents. Data were gathered through interviews and questionnaires and were ...
Abstract Cultural erosion is a cause of concern in all community in Africa. It is on this regard that I took interest to research on the Basotho community in Kafusi village in Gwanda South rural areas in Matabeleland South in Zimbabwe. The research is entitled “An ethnography of setapa music of the Basotho in the context of holoba pula rain making ceremony.” It was conducted qualitatively with aid of research instruments such as interview guides and observation guide. These were explored ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate stakeholders‟ perceptions of the leadership styles of headteachers in public and private secondary schools in Tanzania, focusing on Kinondoni Municipality, Dar es salaam. Situational Leadership Theory (SLT), advocated first by Hersey and Blanchard (1969) was applied to guide the study. The study employed a cross-sectional survey design. The study targeted 6 headteachers, 60 teachers, 12 school committee members, 48 students and a DEO. D...
ABSTRACT This study sought to assess the contributions of secondary school head teachers‟ leadership styles on teachers‟ work performances. The theoretical framework of the study was grounded on the Behavioral and Trait theories. While according to Behavioral theory, leadership was essentially a function of effective role behavior, Trait theory asserted that, a leader is thought to possess certain traits which tend to separate him from the common mass of followers. This study used a Cros...