ABSTRACT HIV/AIDS is a reality among the visually impaired although little research has been done to address this issue. For instance, there are no statistics indicating the number of visually impaired who have died or been infected by the AIDS epidemic in Kenya. Interventions such as HIV/AIDS education and prevention campaigns on safer sex practices have not particularly targeted the visually impaired. This makes them vulnerable to sexual exploitation and at high risk of infection. The ...
ABSTRACT Retention is a common intervention strategy often used when students fail to meet minimum standards on academic assessments. It has remained a controversial and highly debated topic in education despite many years of research. In Kenya, there have been mixed concerns both in private and public schools due to teacher and school accountability demands. Although numerous researches have been done on class retention, there is a dearth of local studies on retention perception. This study ...
ABSTRACT Poor achievement motivation among learners at secondary school level may explain the dismal performance of many candidates in national examinations. Poor performance leads to loss of rewarding opportunities for the individual learner as s/he misses a chance to study further and in the long run, the society will not have adequate skilled human resources. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between personal, family, and school factors as correlates of achievement motivatio...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to establish if emotional intelligence and academic self- efficacy beliefs significantly predict academic achievement among form four students in public secondary schools in Kiambu County, Kenya. Specifically the study sought to find out the relationship between emotional intelligence, academic self-efficacy beliefs and academic achievement and to develop the prediction equation of academic achievement from emotional intelligence and academic self-efficacy b...
ABSTRACT The ability to understand and use information from text is a key predict of a student’s success in school learning. Not all factors related to this ability have been adequately investigated. The purpose of this study was to examine metacognitive knowledge and cognitive reading strategy use as predictors of reading comprehension performance among form three students in Lari Sub County, Kiambu County. The study also tested for gender differences in metacognitive knowledge and cogniti...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the explanations that students give on achievement outcomes and their academic expectations in Thika Sub-County, Kiambu County. The main objective of the study was to find out if academic achievement was related to causal attributions and academic expectations. Gender differences in causal attributions and academic expectations were also tested. The study also established the interaction effect of causal attributions, academic expectations and academic achieve...
ABSTRACT This study purposed to investigate how school type was related to self-esteem, academic achievement and career aspirations of secondary school students. Students’ are admitted into different school types based on the criteria of their marks in KCPE. There is a lot of stereotyping on “school labels”. National schools post best KCSE grades, making them institutions of fame and prestige, followed by extra-county, county schools and at the bottom are sub-county schools, produ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the ‗Incredible Years Program‘ (IYP) in reducing juvenile delinquency in Kenya. Juvenile delinquency in Kenya is on the increase. The number of children in conflict with law has risen significantly from 483 in 2006 to 927 in 2010. This necessitated the assessment of the effectiveness of this program. There was therefore need to conduct a research to determine whether the ‗Incredible Years‘ Program training for...
ABSTRACT In the last five years (2013 to 2017), poor academic achievement has been experienced in Kiambu County. This is despite government‟s interventions and education being an important sector in individual and national development. Most researchers attribute this to socio-cultural and classroom environmental factors. Yet there could be certain personal factors affecting students‟ academic achievement. The study was therefore designed to determine the relationships among students‟ ac...
ABSTRACT Despite several efforts put in place to address HIV and AIDS education, prevention and control programmes in public universities in Kenya, students‟ utilization of Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) services is still very low compared to the students‟ total population in the public universities in Kilifi and Mombasa counties in Kenya yet VCT uptake is necessary to bring about behavior change among the university students. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence among th...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to determine the effectiveness of two behaviour modification strategies, namely: the Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and the Social Learning Theory (SLT) on the management of psychosocial problems of street-beggars in a destitute centre in Lagos metropolis. The participants in the study comprised 120 (60 men and 60 women) able bodied destitute and street beggars who were randomly selected in a destitute centre in Lagos metropolis. The instruments ...
ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of school self-evaluation training on improvement of basic schools in Brong-Ahafo Region, Ghana. A total of 85 Junior High School (JHS) teachers and 129 JHS two students were sampled from three public basic schools in the Sunyani Municipal Education directorate. The participants from the three selected schools were assigned to one of the two training groups or the control group. The municipality, circuits, schools and a JHS two stream were selected usi...
ABSTRACT The study assessed knowledge and practice of preschool teachers about early childhood educational best practices in the Cape Coast Metropolis. A descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The study employed quantitative approaches through the use of self-developed questionnaires. In all Krejcie and Morgan sample size determination table was used to select 217 preschool teachers using the multistage sampling technique. The data were analysed using both descriptive and infe...
BSTRACT Homelessness is a pervasive social problem that has devastating impacts on affected individuals and poses severe challenges to policymakers in developing countries. This study investigated psychosocial distress associated with homelessness and the effectiveness of coping strategies used to manage such distress. Homeless individuals aged 10 years and above in the Greater Accra region of Ghana constituted the research population. An explanatory mixed-method design comprising a cross...
ABSTRACT The present study investigated of factors contributing to the academic achievements of students in the Aboom Circuit of the Cape Coast Metropolis during 2015-2016 academic years. The study employed descriptive, crosssectional survey design, using questionnaires for data collection. A simple random sampling technique was used to select 350 JHS students and a census method was conducted on 30 teachers. The data was analysed and discussed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Th...