Abstract/Overview Geography provides opportunities for students to develop their general intellectual capacity for life-long learning, skills such as critical thinking, communication, information processing, problem solving, and decision making. There has been lower performance in Geography compared to other subjects such as Religious Education and History in National Examination in Rarieda Sub County.. The main purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between the Geography Cu...
Abstract/Overview In Kisii Central Sub County, few secondary schools have been perennially associated with good performance whereas majorities are attributed to low students’ academic performances irrespective of the cream admission and top boarding status. These disparities in public boarding secondary schools are attributed to unique school’s cultures adopted by each school that affects and guides behaviours of the entire school population positively or negatively. A culture helps m...
Abstract/Overview Disparities in public boarding secondary schools are attributed to unique school’s cultures adopted by each school that affects and guides behaviours of the entire school population positively or negatively. A culture helps members to understand the environment and determine how to respond to the values, beliefs, and norms of the organization manifested by artifacts, collegiality, norms, ceremonies, and rituals. The purpose of this study was to establish implication of...
Abstract/Overview Tertiary education especially in Youth Polytechnics has been identified as the means to provide relevant and adequate technical skills for industrial and economic development consistent with aspirations of Kenya Vision 2030. Youth Polytechnics being accountable to the public as stakeholders need to guarantee that they offer quality training. However, with the diminishing number of students seeking education through Youth Polytechnics, the question of quality is critical ...
Abstract/Overview Peer assisted learning as a strategy that aims to facilitate the students’ development in intellectual, emotional, personal and social proportions. Based on social constructivist theory, the study employed mixed method approach- concurrent triangulation design. The study analyzed the use of peer assisted learning in enhancing academic achievement in secondary schools. It was conducted in Kisumu West Sub County due to a dropping in performance in Kenya National Examinat...
Abstract/Overview The study surveyed the impact of social media on students’ academic performance in public day secondary schools. The study was conducted in Kisii County; Kenya where 1132 respondents, (students, teachers and principals) participated in the study. Researcher used mixed method research design. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to obtain the sample of the study. The objectives of the study were: to established whether secondary school students were...
Abstract/Overview The study assessed strategies for effective management of conflicts in public secondary schools and averting school unrest amongst students as perceived by principals, school board of management and students in Kenya. A total of 26 school principals, 104 Board of Management members, 183 teachers and 370 students participated in the study. Random and purposive sampling techniques were used to obtain the sample for the study. Data collection was done using self-made questi...
Abstract/Overview The deteriorating academic performance of students in the various national examinations in Kenya in recent times provoked researcher to undertake this kind of study, to examined the school attendances patterns, causes of attendance challenge and their impact on the academic performance of Secondary Schools’ students, and interventions to curb this vice in Kisii County, Kenya. To accomplish this goal, scores of attendance and examinations of 2372students from 30 public ...
Abstract/Overview Tertiary education especially in Youth Polytechnics has been identified as the means to provide relevant and adequate technical skills for industrial and economic development consistent with aspirations of Kenya Vision 2030. Youth Polytechnics being accountable to the public as stakeholders need to guarantee that they offer quality training. However, with the diminishing number of students seeking education through Youth Polytechnics, the question of quality is critical ...
Abstract/Overview Play is the most relevant way through which children learn. Play-based teaching and learning promotes positive social skills in children. Today many children are not given time to play and teachers do not integrate play fully in curriculum because many teachers seem not to recognize the relevance of play to children, leading to poor performance of children yet the entire teaching and learning of small children is supposed to be entirely based on play. The study was there...
Abstract/Overview We present findings of a study carried out to determine the effect of streaming by gender on secondary school students' achievement in mathematics. In the study we analysed achievement scores on national examinations results for the years 1999 to 2001 of a sample of 1 489 candidates in four secondary schools in Nakuru District, Kenya. Raw data were analysed statistically and the hypotheses tested. Generally, the results indicated that streaming based on gender improved o...
Abstract/Overview Political and socio-economic changes sweeping across societies together with globalization, scientific and technological processes are creating an increasingly competitive environment for universities in Africa. Therefore, the centralized system of curriculum development and management adopted by most universities in which university committees and senate have to approve curricula does not allow universities to adapt fast enough or even be the focal point of curriculum r...
Abstract/Overview The study examined the relationship between the use of classroom tasks and activities as an aspect of CLT and the performance in English in Kenya.Integrated Skills Approach Theory was used in the study. The population of the study was 2,562 teachers of English and 9,342 class three pupils. Stratified simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used to select 255 teachers and 340 class three pupils respectively. The study adopted the Explanatory Sequential Mixed ...
Abstract/Overview The purpose of the study was to explore implications of co-curricular activities on quality education in public secondary schools in Kisii County, Kenya. The objective of the study was to establish the impact of co-curricular activities on quality education. This study employed the Production Function Theory and adopted sequential explanatory design. Population of study consisted of 9 education officers, 334 principals and 334 senior teachers. Stratified sampling techniq...