The study investigated teaching styles and academic performance of learners Vvith specific learning disability in inclusive setting in Kisumu West district Kenya. The objectives of the study were to find out learners with specific learning disabilities. to establish teaching styles used in inclusive. setting. to determine the academic performance of learners with specific learning disabilities in an inclusive setting and to relate teaching styles and academic performance of learners vvith spe...
Abstract The research was carried out on the attitude of teachers towards the inclusion of the mentally retarded learners in regular primary schools. This was because the feelings of most regular primary school teachers that these learners affect and lower the academic performance of their schools. therefore this learners are forced to repeat classes or drop off school. It is due to this attitude that mentally retarded learners are not accessing the regular classes. The researcher used the qu...
Abstract The purpose of this research study was to establish the factors affecting the learning of English language by learners with specific leaning difficulties (SLD) in the three selected schools. There were about nine classes which were involved to represent the fifteen classes in the schools representing regular schools in the division. The researcher targeted two learners from each class. Fortunately all of'them and returned the questionnaire since the researcher was in that school and ...
ABSTRACT A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted Mutyambua town council, Nzaui district - Kenya between 28th of May to June 18111 , 2008. The main objective was to determine solid waste management in Mutyambua town council Nzaui district. Specifically, the study objectives include; Identification of methods of solid waste management, to determine the level of awareness on dangers of improper solid waste management in the study area, and to find out the role of local town council man...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Poverty has been the hardest challenge facing human life from time immemorial. It has contributed to low social-economic states in society and has brought absent difficult circumstances 1:hat face learners today. It has negatively affected all people regardless of age, culture, race, religion, and other factors. An overview of some facts about poverty in the world of . Africa the black Americans suffered untold miseries ranging from disease...
ABSTRACT This research was an investigation of teachers' attitudes on the academic performance of learners with specific learning difficulties in Kaloleni district mainstream primary schools. The statement of the problem was the growing concern of the teachers' attitudes on the academic performance of learners with specific learning difficulties hence prompting the researcher to carry out the study. To conduct the study, the researcher used questionnaires and interviews as his instruments to ...
ABSTRACT The study at finding the factors affecting performance in English at Kenya Certificate of Primary Education among learners with learning difficulties. The objectives of the study are to determine why learners perform poorly at KCPE. It also investigates the teaching and learning approaches used in teaching English in our schools and to involve stakeholders in provision of services and resources to improve the performance of learners. The research covered Kisanana Zone of Koibatek di...
ABSTRACT The study was about effects of neurological problems on academic performance of pupils in selected primary schools in Adjumani District. The study's target population was teachers in primary schools and the method of sampling that was used was equal size cluster random sampling method using all a list of all teacher in each selected primary s.chool. A sample of50 teachers was drawn and the response rate.was 80% for the whole study. The study revealed that the most neurological probl...
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 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 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...
ABSTRACT This study mv estimated the attitudes of regular learners towards integration of the hearing impaired learners in regular schools in Starehe Division, Nairobi. The study wa~ based on the three schools in Starehe Division that have units for deaf children. The subjects )f the study were all learners from class five to class eight in the three schools named / Racecourse, Juja Road, and Pangani Primary schools. These three schools represented the twenty-five schools in Starehe Division...
ABSTRACT The research was carried out at Ntinda School for the deaf to find out parental involvement in the education of Deaf children. Most often, parents of Deaf children don't bother at all to get involved in the education of their children. When they take these children to school, they believe it's the end of the story on their part. All responsibilities for they provision of these children's education therefore are left to the school administration to perform. The instruments used in th...
ABSTRACT In the first child labor was practiced all over the world, and children were overburdened animals of the burdens. It was common in some parts of the world and can be factory work, mining prostitution, querying, agricultural helping in the parents, business, having ones own small business e.g. selling food, or doing odd jobs. Some children work as guides for tourists, sometimes combined with bringing in business for shops and restaurants where they may also work as waiters other chil...
AB~TRA~T Since the early l990s the movement to have education for all was launched at the World Conference that involved various international organizations such as UNESCO, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and the World Bank. The main agenda for this conference was Education for All in the entire world. In Uganda the aspect of education for all is not effectively implemented despite of having policies and legal framework that advocate education for all. The education should enhance teachers who teach chi...