ABSTRACT The main purpose of this studywas to find out the extent to which prevocational curriculum provided to public secondary schools students are focused to meet students’ vocational aspirations in Thika District. The study was necessitated by the fact that access to secondary school is onthe increase while the number of those who score grade high enough for higher education remain relatively very low in the District. The study adopted a descriptive survey design to enable the research...
ABSTRACT There has been a wide outcry of teachers as far as their salaries and other work conditions are concerned not only in Kenya but also in other parts of the world. The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher motivation in Kenyan secondary schools. The study investigated the role of promotions, salary, job security, work conditions and proximity to job station in relation to teacher motivation. The study specifically was guided by the following objectives to:- establish the ext...
ABSTRACT Purpose of this study was to assess the implementation process of Business Studies curriculum. The study was guided by the following specific objectives: to find out the training provisions for teacher of Business Studies for their preparation to implement the integrated syllabus, to determine the attitude of teachers of Business Studies towards the secondary school Business Studies syllabus, to determine the teaching/learning resources and strategies used to implement Business Studi...
ABSTRACT This research investigated the implication that orphanage management has on the educational performance of orphaned learners. Its purpose was to determine how orphanages are managed both as homes and schools in terms of meeting the orphaned learners’ needs and the impact of the management on the educational performance of the orphaned learners. The research was conducted in Kisauni sub-county, Mombasa County. It was guided by four objectives and four research questions. The objecti...
ABSTRACT A school is not an island, but part of the community in which it exists. Learners are members of the community. The community also supplies the school with teachers, finances and other physical facilities and it expects the school to transform its learners into able, skilled and knowledgeable people who can serve the nation. Schools activities should therefore reflect; as far as possible, the nature and aspirations of community. There should be an active partnership between the scho...
ABSTRACT The study examined the influence of socio-physical environment on the quality of secondary education in Mfangano Island, Mbita District in Homa Bay County. The objectives were to investigate the influence of Lake Victoria on accessibility to learning institutions, to find out landscape factors influencing curriculum implementation, to determine the contribution of religious institutions on the quality of secondary education and to identify the contribution of home-school partnership ...
ABSTRACT Worldwide, education has been declared a fundamental need just as food, shelter and clothing. According to the United Nations (1948), everyone has a right to education. Despite the educational development like the government‟s effort to improve quality of education, the academic performance has been chronically poor in most of the public secondary schools in Butula Sub-County, Busia County. The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of school-based factors on academi...
ABSTRACT The importance of tertiary education in our socio-economic growth projections cannot be gainsaid. It is the engine for technological growth in any country. Yet most Diploma students specializing in engineering courses fail the final examinations administered by KNEC every year. The purpose of this study was to determine the specific causes of poor performance in our tertiary institutions. A four- year analysis of performance in three Technical colleges was undertaken to highlight the...
ABSTRACT Stress is considered a major global health challenge affecting the well being of service providers especially those working in the human service sectors like teachers, health care providers, media specialists and security agencies. The sources of stress are attributed to socio-economic, occupational and political pressures of modern life. This study was prompted by emerging information from studies that stress is a silent killer that affects the health of service providers leading t...
ABSTRACT Education is a key factor to the development of any nation in the world. It has been the intension of the government that all KCPE candidates join secondary schools. Since 2003, the government has been providing funds to all public primary schools to promote access and education standards in all parts of the country. However, quite a number of public primary schools have been performing poorly in KCPE. In Nakuru North District, the average KCPE performance in 2011 was 222.5 marks. Th...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of in-service training of head teachers on their effectiveness in school development planning in Gatundu district, Kiambu County in Kenya. The objectives of the study were: to establish whether head teachers have received any in-service training related to school development planning; to find out the impact of such training on school development planning effectiveness; to identify challenges experienced by head teachers in school d...
This study aimed at investigating the status of the household disposable income and its impacts on the students’ participation in public day secondary schools in Makueni County, Kenya. This study was guided by the following objectives: to determine the influence of household disposable income on students’ school and class attendance; to establish the influence of household disposable income on students’ class assignment completion; to find out the influence of household disposable ...
This study sought to evaluate the strategies applied by teachers of Integrated English to enhance performance of students in English subject in public secondary schools in Embakasi sub-county, Nairobi. The performance of English subject in Embakasi District has been steadily improving even though it is lower than the performance of English nationally, it is with this in mind that this study sought to find out which strategies have been put in place by the teachers of Integrated English s...
ABSTRACT This study was concerned with finding out which strategies are used in the implementation of Integrated English in public secondary schools in Kasarani Division, Nairobi and the effect of these strategies on the performance of Integrated English. The objectives of the study were: First, find out the teachers‟ awareness and use of the teaching- learning strategies, secondly, analyze the effect of resources on the choice of these strategies, thirdly, find out the extent to which the ...
ABSTRACT Education is universally recognized as a vital tool in the course of national development. In order to learn new skills, capacity building of teachers is encouraged. The rationale of this study was to investigate the influence of capacity building Heads of Departments (HODs) on KCSE performance in public secondary schools in Kericho County. In Kericho County the capacity building of heads of department was last conducted in the year 2013 by SMASSE before KEMI took over. The performan...