ABSTRACT This study investigated the contributions of teachers‟ motivation towards job performance; basing on 4 study objectives as described in. However, the study which was conducted in Iringa Urban District due to the grounds related to academic matters was sought to find out whether teachers‟ motivation has an effect on work morale towards their job performance. A cross sectional survey design was adopted for collection of data from different schools, at one point in a time. Qualitat...
ABSTRACT This study intended to assess the contribution of the Teacher Development and Management Strategy (TDMS) to the retention of teachers in secondary schools in Tanzania. The sample of the study comprised 80 respondents including Educational officials, School inspectors, heads of schools, and classroom teachers in Kondoa District. Focus group discussions, questionnaires, interviews and documentary reviews were the methods used to collect data. The study adopted a descriptive technique ...
ABSTRACT The study examined the influence of School Based Management (SBM) practices on students‟ academic performance in public secondary schools (PSS) in Tanzania in Kongwa district. Specifically the study explores the SBM practices, constraints and strategies used to enhance students‟ academic performance in public secondary school. The study employed qualitative research approach and multiple case study design in which was used to gather data. Data were collected through semistructur...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was do assess music teaching subject in primary school in Dodoma Municipality. The objectives of this research were to study syllabus needs and current practices, design few introductory lessons based on music active learning pedagogy, try them in classroom, perform a formative evaluation and evaluate its effectiveness by working with selected teachers in teaching and developing talent at primary level. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative appro...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at investigating effectiveness of use of few available resources in primary schools in Tanzania. It intended to make the teachers, students, and other stakeholders in education use few available educational resources effectively for better academic performance of the students and schools in general. The study explored the factors that led to some schools with few available educational resources to perform better in standard 7 national examinations while others perfor...
ABSTRACT The study aimed examined rural-urban divide in literacy acquisition in early grades. Specifically, to examine the differences in literacy acquisitions between pupils from urban and rural backgrounds in Dodoma region;to assessed how home learning environments influenced children‟s literacy acquisitions in Dodoma; and to explored the hindrances for teaching and learning in grade one and two in both urban and rural primary schools in Dodoma. Mixed-method research approach under the c...
ABSTRACT The major aim of the study was to assess the re-admission policy for mothering students in secondary schools in Tanzania. A total of 6 secondary schools were sampled, and 67 respondents were involved. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative approach. The instruments of data collection included questionnaires, interview and documentary review. Qualitative data were analyzed thematically while quantitative data were analyzed and presented descriptively. The findings revea...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at identifying the role of parent-teacher meetings in improving secondary school student‟s academic performance with reference to North “A” Unguja district in Zanzibar. Epstein Theory of Overlapping Spheres of Influence of 1996, and the System theory developed by Ludwig Von Burtalanffy in 1986 were employed in this study. In addition, the study employed a cross-sectional research design dominated by a mixed research approach. Also, the sample size of the study...
ABSTRACT Specific and accurate understandings of the extent of childhood maltreatment and its effects on adolescents‟ academic performance in Tanzanian schools are crucial to inform policy makers and educators about children protection and treatment programs. This study assessed the effects of childhood maltreatment on adolescents‟ academic performance in secondary schools using both quantitative and qualitative research approaches. Data were collected through questionnaire, interviews a...
ABSTRACT Decentralization of education sector aimed to establish a comprehensive management and administrative system at regions, districts, community and institutional level. Therefore, this study explored the effectiveness of financial management in ward-based community secondary schools in Ukerewe District of Tanzania. It employed a descriptive research design, whereby both qualitative and quantitative research approaches were used. A sample of 45 respondents, which comprised five heads o...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate effects of large class size on effective teaching and learning process in public primary schools in Tanzania: The study was guided by the following objectives: to explore pupils, teachers, WECs and MEO conceptions of large class size, to identify challenges that faced teachers and pupils in large classes in primary schools and eventually suggest possible strategies for addressing challenges posed by large class size in public primary scho...
ABSTRACT Tanzania, as it is in other developing countries, has low teachers commitment. This cross sectional survey design study primarily sought to explore the relationship between school climate and intention to quit the teaching profession among secondary school teachers. The key argument is that there are different types of school climate in which teachers work and whether such climate has an influence on teachers‘ intention to quit the teaching profession. It was conducted in four dis...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at developing and implementing a learner centered approach for teaching Kiswahili poems writing skills in O-level secondary education. Specifically the study aimed to design and develop exemplary learner-centered lessons and materials for improving the teaching of Kiswahili poems writing to O- level secondary schools; to pretest the designed material in the real situation in a school; to undertake a formative evaluation of the learning process on the new designed les...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to identify the causes and the effect of rural students’ dropout in selected secondary school in Geita District. The sampled school were 6. They were mixed day schools whose 30 students were selected from form two to form four. Further the study included 30 class teachers, 6 heads of school, 15 parents, 12 victims drop out, 6 WECs, and 1 DEO, a total of 100 sampled population. The data collection instrument used were questionnaires for class teachers a...
ABSTRACT This dissertation reports the findings of assessment of school management team’s skills in managing fee-free education funds in public secondary schools in Tanzania. Dodoma City Council was used as a case study. Three specific themes formed the objectives of this study, namely the perceptions of SMT members on government school fee allocations practices in the implementation of FFE in secondary schools in Dodoma City Council, the skills used by SMTs in managing FFE school funds, a...