ABSTRACT The qualitative study investigated the causes of girl child dropout in Bubandi Primary School- Bundibugyo. The study was guided by the following objectives; to establish the institutional factors leading to school dropout, to find out if there are some cultural factors in society which cause girls to dropout of schools, to establish if the government policies have influenced girls to dropout of schools and to find out if family background has influenced girls to drop out of school. ...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out in selected Secondary schools in Kwapa sub-county to investigate teachers’ motivation and academic performance of students. The following objected were formulated to guide my study; To establish the types of motivation. To establish the types of motivation used in. To determine whether the methods of motivation used contribute to academic performance in the schools used in Kwapa sub-county. From the research study, it was evident that there existed a not...
ABSTRACT The research was aimed at investigating and elaborating Impact on free primary education on early childhood development centers in Waa- Ngo'mbeni zone in Kwale County (Kenya). The objectives of the study were; to find out impact on free primary education on early childhood development centers, to identify the impacts of free primary education on early childhood in W aa - Ngo'mbeni Zone, Kwale county in Kenya to determine whether free education influences education and illiteracy in ...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out to investigate the effect of hearing impairments on the academic performance of the hearing impaired in regular schools in Kasarani division Nairobi. Most of these learners are ignored and exploited in the community, and face negative reactions from the surrounding community. Due to the slow pace of the government implementation of its policies, these learners with hearing impairments in Kasarani division, Ruaraka zone continue to be subjected to poor learn...
ABSTRACT Education is a fundamental human right, and a key input in production and development of an economy. This explains why countries worldwide plan for and increase budgetary allocations to fund various educational programmes each financial year. There is however concern on the quality of education offered and performance of students in national examinations. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of teaching and learning resources on students’ performance mathematics ...
Abstract This research was about the effect of the environment on the academic performance of pupils in selected primary schools in the Muhoroni Division in Nyando District. The researcher was concerned that the school environment through a number of factors such as sitting arrangement, congestion in classes, lack of textbooks, lack of teaching-learning materials, lack of teachers, incidences of lateness and absenteeism of teachers affected the performance of pupils in KCPE examinations. The...
ABSTRACT The study carried out an analysis and investigation on the attitude held by teachers towards the inclusion of the visually impaired learners into regular school programmes. The study took Kibwezi Division, located in Kibwezi District as a case study. Previous studies indicate that a number of factors ranging from the lack of leaming/teaching equipment, negative attitude of teachers towards the visually impaired learners are among the many forces behind their poor academic performanc...
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION This chapter was mainly concerned with the background of the study, the statement of the problem, research questions, purpose and objectives of the study. The hypothesis, purpose and significance of the proposed study were looked at in this chapter. 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The basic economic problem that all Government and households face currently is how best to allocate scarce resources competing ends. Resources consist of land, labor, capital and managemen...
ABSTRACT. The study was designed to establish the impact of teaching and learning resources in selected schools ofBusoiwe town council in Butalega district. The objectives ofthe study include: to assess the accessibility of teaching and learning resources, to explore types of teaching and learning resources being used and to exanhine the relationshi~., between Teaching and learning resources and student perjörmance. Simple random andpurposive sampling was used in collecting ofdata, the samp...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the effects of communication difficulties n academic performance of learners with hearing impairment. The study was guided by specific objectives that included; identifying ways in which our communication can be improved to suit school performance, the effect of communication on school performance, roles of the school in reducing communication barriers. The study was descriptive and analytical in nature where purposive sampling was used to select population. I...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of IllV/AIDS on the education sector in Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were to identify the effect of strategies for addressing HJV/AIDS prevention within the education sector; and to examine the extent to which these strategies are implemented and the obstacles encountered The methods used for data collection were questionnaires to pupils and teachers of the school involved in the study. In chapter four, the findi...
ABSTRACT The researcher investigated major problems which affect the academic performance of the! hearing impaired regular primary school in Masaba Division Masaba District, Kenya. Despite education for all polIcy, their interests are not addressed. Most of them are not schooling. If they are in school then they are despised and hence looked down upon not knowing that they are normal human beings. Due to this, the researcher had to carry out research targeting the teachers who are handling t...
ABSTRACT The title of the study is the impact of early marriages on the academic performance of the girl child in Mbale municipality, Mbale district, Uganda; it was intended to investigate the effect of early marriages on the performance of the girls in education. The report is made up of five chapters, chapter one deals with the introduction, that is, background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives and others, chapter two is all about the literature methodology, chapter four d...
ABSTRACT. The researcher intends to find out the impact of deviant behavior on academic performance of secondary school students in makindye division, Kampala district Uganda. This research has not been done before so the researcher hopes to get better solutions to be used by stakeholders to solve the challenges. the researcher conducted his research using qualitative and quantitative approaches. He also used survey strategy to collect information. Questionnaires were the main tools to be u...
ABSTRACT This paper explores the relationship between H.I and academic performance of pupils in some of our public primary school in Zone, Rongo District, Kenya. It employs both quantitative and qualitative analysis covering the entire zone which is about 68 square kilometers in area. The research findings revealed that there were many H.I children in our regular primary schools as there was 100% response from respondents on this fact. The figures were bigger in lower primary than upper prim...