ABSTRACT The study investigated the factors affecting the teaching of Luganda in lower Primary. The researcher hypothesized that lack of enough instruction materials, inadequate training of teachers in Luganda and a variety of different languages spoken in Kayunga would have been the factors that had been affecting the teaching of Luganda in lower Primary. The researcher then had to use questionnaires, interviews and observation in her research. Questionnaires were read to pupils as they ans...
ABSTRACT The recent rapid increase in divorce, along with its distinctive cultural and welfare environments for single-parent families, makes Kenya an interesting case for examining effects of single parenthood on children’s education. Using data from the questionnaires distributed I compared the levels of educational aspiration and student disengagement between students with two parents and those with a single parent, distinguishing divorced single fathers, widowed single fathers, divorced...
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ABSTRACT The present study is aimed at investigating relationship between learners perception and academic performance in primary schools. The study covered all aspects concerning studying of mathematics in primary schools. And it looked at the relationship between academic performance of pupils and the their perception of the subject. This study was guided by a cross sectional survey design, documentary analysis in order to obtain meaning full description on the relationship between learner...
ABSTRACT For a number of years pnmary schools in Siongiroi zone have not been performing very well. The researcher wanted to investigate if school feeding programmes will improve pupil's academic performance. In the study, the researcher employed descriptive design. Therefore simple survey or poll for the purpose of describing attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of the study population were used. Questionnaires were used in the collection of data. The raw data was then analyzed, presented in p...
ABSTRACT The central problem of this study was that despite the introduction of free primary education by the government in 2003, the enrolment of mentally retarded children in public primary schools of Rhamu Division, REIAMU division of RHAMU Kenya was low. This low enrolment made the researcher to conduct the study tn find out the factors that cause the problem. The researcher wanted to confirm whether cultural beliefs, lack of adaptive skills, in-adequate assessments lack oftechnical skill...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out to identify the challenges of hearing impairment to learners in Nunguni Zone, Kilungu Division, Makueni District, Eastern province of Kenya. The researcher used the survey method and questionnaires to collected data from the respondents. The sample comprised ten teachers from ten schools thus one teacher from each school. The researcher found the causes of hearing impairment in the area to be diseases, witchcraft and curse. The researcher found out how heari...
ABSTRACT Objectives: This study determined the academic performance of students in chemistry subject of )amhuri High School in Nairobi District, Kenya. Specifically, this study determined the profile of the students as to age, gender and class. It determined the level of academic performance and determined if there is a significant difference in the level of academic performance between male and female students. Design: This study employed the descriptive survey method of investigation. Envir...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of HIV/ AIDS on the education of selected primary schools of Keiyo district, Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were to. determine the effect of HIV/AIDS on the enrollment of children in school, determine the relationship between HIV/AIDS and school drop out, determine the challenges teachers face in regards to the HIV/ AIDS pandemic, determine the Impact of HIV/AIDS on teachers' participation in education and Investigat...
ABSTRACT The focus of his research was on girl's school drop out and academic performance case study of selected schools in Kabarnet division m Baringo central district in Kenya The objectives were to establish the cause of girls school dropout among pupils. According PC Tum; Educational Trends in Kenya A vocational perspective children from less privileged families financially who enter First class of primary school do not complete their primary school education because socio and economic re...
ABSTRACT Transformational leadership practices have the capacity to deal with the leadership ills confronting secondary education in Ghana. The study sought to determine the effect of school heads’ idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and heads of schools’ individual consideration leadership practices on students’ academic achievement in public Senior High Schools (SHS) in Kumasi Metropolitan, Ghana. The study adopted the transformational leadership...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to carry out situational analysis of educational services provided for learners in Special Primary Schools for Hearing Impairments in Oriental Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The study utilized the case study methodology to collect data from 3 special schools for learners with HI in Oriental Province, involving (3) Head-Teachers, (28) teachers and (15) parents of learners with HI. The respondents were sampled purposively and the sample size...
ABSTRACT The main objective of the study was to examine the impact of domestic violence on student's academic performance. This has been associated with problems in student's cognitive processes and poor academic functioning, emotional effects exposure to depression and negative self concept which interferes with school adaptation, academic achievement and disciplinary problems. Literature was reviewed based on the various forms of themes; in all aspects it alluded to violence as a practice t...
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ABSTRACT The study was to investigate the causes of poor academic performance among the hearing impaired learners in regular schools in Samburu zone, Kinango district. The researcher used questionnaires to collect information from the respondents. The respondents were 25 teachers and 50 learners from the three sampled schools. The researcher found that in comparison with their hearing counterparts, hearing impaired learners perform poorly in academic work due to a number of factors. These in...