Abstract/Overview Abstract The study investigated gender biases against women in labor division in Kenya’s Ministry of Education. The research study was guided by the African feminism as a theoretical frame work. The concurrent triangulation design, which is one of the Mixed Methods Approach models, was used in the current study. The target population in this study consisted of the thirty-six Sub-County Education officers in the six sub-counties of Kisumu county. These are the six Sub C...
Abstract/Overview Background and purpose: The paper reports a study of the perceptions of teachers in secondary schools in the Gucha district of Kenya of their own effectiveness, the structure of their self-perceptions, variations in self-perceived effectiveness and the relationship between self-perceptions of effectiveness and the examination performance of their students. Design and methods: Data were based on questionnaires completed by 109English and mathematics teachers from a random...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between teacher quality and Teacher performance in the selected Primary schools of Apach District Uganda. The study was guided by the following objectives; i) finding out the profile of the respondents, ii) level of teacher quality, iii) level of teacher productivity and finding out the relationship between level of teacher quality and level of teacher productivity. Descriptive correlational survey research design was employ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Declaration Supervisors’ ApprovaI Dedication Acknowledgement List of Tables List of Figures iii List of Acronyms Abstract CIJAPTFR ONE: INTRODUCTION Overview 1 I Background of the Study 1.2 Statement of the Problem I .3 Purpose of the Study 1.4 Objectives of the Study 1.5 Scope of the Study 5 1.6 Significance of the Study CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.0 Overview 2. 1 Theoretical and Conceptual Framework 8 2.2 The impact of Extrinsic and Intrinsic ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the influence of ~ocial factors on students’ discipline in selected secondary schools in Serere County, Serere District. To achieve the purpose of the study, three research objectives were set and these included: to ascertain the influence of social factors in secondary schools; to assess students discipline in secondary schools; to establish the relationship between the influence of social factors on students discipline in secondary school~. The design used...
ABSTRACT The leadership roles of the principal as the chief executive in the school is enormous. He plays a key role in the success and failure of the organisations. They study therefore investigated principal decision making strategies on teacher effectiveness in secondary schools specifically, the objectives of this study were to determined (i) examine who decision are made by the principals the secondary school level; (ii) asses t at decision making strategies on teache...
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ABSTRACT Effective performance appraisal system depends on how it addresses itself to the views and attitudes of the teachers in the school. Since 2012, teachers in Kenya have been appraised using a revised system of appraisal whose effectiveness has not been verified. The purpose of this study was to explore the teachers‟ perceptions on the effectiveness of the appraisal system. The specific objectives of the study were to: establish teachers‟ perceptions about the effectiveness of the ...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to assess youth’s credit accessibility and employment creation in Kilombero District. Specifically, the study aimed at, identifying the proportion of youth with access to credit, identifying the challenges faced by the youth in their endeavor to acquire credit and determining the contribution of youth’s access to credit towards employment creation. The study adopted a cross -sectional design whereby data were collected once from 181 randomly selected you...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at assessing household water service accessibility in Karatu District Tanzania, a case of world vision dream village WASH project. Specifically, the study wanted to establish the level of access to water services before and after the dream village WASH project, to assess community involvement in dream village WASH project, and to determine household water users’ opinions on dream village WASH project. The study adopted both quantitative and qualitative research appr...
Abstract Youth, the World Bank argues, need to become a constituency for reform in developing countries. This case study responds to this challenge by investigating adolescent students' understanding of the relationship between health literacy, HIV/AIDS, and gender in the context of Uganda. The four questions investigated are: (i) What kind of health literacy, HIV/AIDS, and gender-related information is accessible to Ugandan adolescent secondary school students? (ii) In the students' view, w...
ABSTRACT The research aimed at examining whether the 2012-2016 May/June West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in core subjects exhibited gender and location differential item functioning (DIF) in Ghana using the cross-sectional design. Six research hypotheses and one research question were formulated for the study. A sample of 36,035 candidates consisting of 8,994(English Language), 8,935(Mathematics), 9,089(Integrated Science) and 9,017 (Social Studies) candidates wa...
ABSTRACT Background: The development of maternal health services does not warrant their use by women. Nor do the use of maternal health services warrant ideal results for women. A unique element of health care components which is spotlight to explain why women do either not access facilities at all or access the facilities late and experience an average unfavourable results, in spite of timely presentation, concerns the intangible notion of care. Quality of care based on the definition of Ins...
ABSTRACT The study examined the implementation of School Based Assessment in KEEA district in Central Region. The quota sampling procedure was used to select 200 basic school teachers in ten basic schools for the study. Five research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. Questionnaire was used for data collection for the study. The Cronbach’s coefficient alpha for the questionnaire was 0.85. The results showed that to a great extent, teachers agreed that, they have knowledge abou...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of, moderation of continuous assessment scores on the overaIl performance scores of candidates at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). The descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The target population was the 278,413 candidates who registered for the 2004 BECE in all subjects. Schools were stratified into high, average and low performance categories depending on the performance of their candidates at t...