ABSTRACT Mathematics is essential for daily life and plays a crucial role in school curricula; yet students‘ performance in it remains very low worldwide, Somalia not being exceptional. This study intended to find out whether teacher characteristics, teaching methods, use of teaching resources and student attitudes towards mathematics affect students‘ performance in mathematics or not. The study was conducted in Banadir region of Somalia, which has a total of seventy secondary schools wit...
ABSTRACT The purpose ofthe study was to investigate the management and structure governing the TACs operations. The statement of the problem was that the structure managing the TAC tutors does not enhance effective service delivery of their job description. The study surveyed the MoEST structure that manages the TACs. It further surveyed a structure used at KIE whose functions are closely related with the activities of the TACs and make relevant recommendations ofthe suitable management struc...
ABSTRACT Despite the fact that pre-school teachers undertake specialized courses to enable them to use music activities in the course of teaching, there is a lot of variability in the frequency, variety and purposes to which these activities are employed. The purpose of this study was to examine the levels of teacher self efficacy and use of music activities in pre-schools in Nairobi and Kiambu Counties. The study is grounded on the self efficacy theory by Bandura and complemented by the theo...
ABSTRACT Kenya’s vision 2030’s social pillar on Education and training states in part that the overall goal for 2012 is to reduce illiteracy by increasing access to Education, improving transition rate in primary and secondary schools and raising the quality and relevance of education hence retention. Kenya has targeted universal primary education since independence .The retention of girls in public secondary schools in Ndhiwa has been low. Each year about 11.37 % of females drop out of s...
ABSTRACT School Safety is an integral and indispensable component of the teaching and learning process. Indeed no meaningful teaching and learning can take place in an environment that is unsafe and insecure to both learners and staff. It is therefore important that educational stakeholders foster safe and secure school environment (Republic of Kenya, 2008). In an apparent response to tragedies that hit schools in the last decade, Ministry of Education (MOE) introduced a Safety Standards Manu...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to establish whether children with vision problems were identified early and given support to avoid visual impairment in Kiambu, Murang’a and Kirinyaga Counties in Central Kenya. Although visual impairments remain a major threat especially to school children, they can be avoided through early identification. Unfortunately, children with vision problems have largely remained undetected and unsupported. Even worse, the children stand a higher risk of develo...
ABSTRACT With the country’s vision of industrialization by 2030 students’ performance in science subjects to produce the expertise to drive the country to its realization has been given the first priority. The effect of school and home-based factors may have a considerable effect on students’ performance in science subjects at Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education(K.C.S.E.).The government has provided support, policy framework and teachers. It has also prioritized science performance...
ABSTRACT The performance in mathematics and sciences in Kenyan secondary schools has remained low for many years. The Strengthening of Mathematics and Sciences in Secondary Education (SMASSE) project was introduced as a joint project between the Kenya government and Japan in order to improve the performance in these subjects in KCSE examination. Despite this, the improvement in performance in mathematics and sciences has not been very significant. This study aimed at investigating the factors...
ABSTRACT The role of a teacher in determining the quality of education that a student receives in school cannot be overemphasized. However, a large number of teachers in the country are exiting the teaching profession for various reasons other natural attrition. The nation is thus facing a serious shortage of teachers as indicated in various media reports and government statistical records. Studies have also shown that relatively young teachers quit teaching within five years of employment. T...
ABSTRACT This study sought to analyze the impact of internal efficiency on K.C.S.E. performance in Nyamache division by looking at some of the efficiency indicators in secondary schools. The main objective was to establish enrolment trends, determine the measures of efficiency (dropout, survival, graduation and repeater rates), and establish the causes and attempt to provide possible solutions to the problems mentioned above. The sample population comprised of selected secondary schools in th...
ABSTRACT Each year one in every three school girls drops out of schools in Kenya due to pregnancy. Majority of these adolescent mothers are not able to go back to school after delivery. To address this issue, the Ministry of Education in 1996 released re-entry policy guidelines to ensure the smooth readmission of adolescent mothers after delivery. Years later, it was established that a significant majority of the adolescent mothers were still not attending school. This pointed to a gap or mis...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at gaining in-depth understanding of factors influencing the boy– child secondary education in the rice-growing region of Kirinyaga South District, Kirinyaga County, Kenya. Factors leading to this limited success had hitherto not been adequately investigated. The purpose of the study therefore was to identify those influences on the boy-child‟s secondary education in this district. The objectives of the study were to determine the boy-child school attendance tren...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the role of education inspectors in curriculum implementation in public secondary schools of Bauchi State, Nigeria. The main aim of the study was to establish the extent to which school inspectors‟ role has effective contribution towards curriculum implementation in Bauchi State secondary schools and to give insight into how it might be organized to influence teachers‟ work performance. The study had three main objectives namely: to establish the i...
Abstract Performance of Geography subject in Kipkelion Sub-County has been poor. Over the years, the results have not been satisfactory to the teachers, parents and other stake holders. This prompted the researcher to investigate whether the educators and learners use instructional materials in practical geography. The following objectives were used in the study, to establish the utilization of instructional resources for Practical Geography, investigate extent the teaching and learning resou...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the preparedness of teachers in integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in public primary schools in Thika West District, Kiambu County. The study was guided by the following objectives: to establish the ICT infrastructure that is there in public primary schools, to determine the attitudes and perceptions of the teachers towards the use of ICTs in public primary schools, to assess the levels of training of the teachers in the use...