ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to analyze the quality of Free Primary Education in Garissa Municipality in Garissa County. Despite the introduction of FPE in Garissa it has been noticed that since the implementation of this programme the performance of pupils have been declining in subsequent years. The study objectives were to establish the influence of pupil-teacher ratio, the teaching and learning resources, the supervision, teacher motivation, the impact of management styles and ...
ABSTRACT The core function of the directorate of Quality Assurance and Standards is ensuring Quality education. This entails monitoring of curriculum implementation in schools. The members of staff of the directorate are expected to visit schools regularly, conduct seminars and In-service courses for teachers, and promote advisory services among other activities. Reports have indicated that Quality Assurance and Standards in Kenya is a thorny issue. Even with the efforts made for instance (in...
ABSTRACT Researchers working on the Later Stone Age period have studied individual sites on their own making little effort in comparing the archaeological collection from two or more sites. Where this has been done, they have compared collections of different ages in sites separated from each other by a few meters. This study looks compares archeological collections excavated in two different sites, one FxJj12 located in Lake Turkana Basin and the other GxJi 4 located in Lake Magadi Basin. Th...
ABSTRACT The Kenyan government transferred the management of the secondary education bursary fund from Head teachers and School‘s Boards of Governors to the newly created Constituency Bursary Committees (CBCs) in the 2003/2004 financial year in line with its policy of decentralization. It is a tenet of decentralization that it leads to enhanced efficiency, effectiveness, transparency, accountability and local participation in service delivery. However, some educational stakeholders have cri...
ABSTRACT The Ministry of Education increased the allocation of secondary school bursaries from Kshs 204.5 million in 1997/1998 financial year to Kshs 800 million in 2006/2007 financial year (Republic of Kenya, 2005a). This represented an increase of 397 percent over the 10-year period. Despite this huge investment to assist the poor access secondary education, a large number of children do not access secondary education on completion of primary education. An even larger number of students are...
ABSTRACT Transition rate of students from primary school to secondary is very fundamental it is important because Africa has the challenges of low education transition rate from the primary level to secondary school level. The governments operate with huge budgetary deficits which always need to be plugged by way of donors infusing budgetary and development support. This leaves the challenge of financing the girl-child education programmes especially for the post-primary education programmes ...
ABSTRACT Strengthening of Mathematics and Sciences in Secondary Education (SMASSE) training is an educational innovation and an initiative of the government of Kenya with support of the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA). It was launched in1998 out of the need to improve performance in mathematics and science subjects. This study assessed the implementation of the Activity, Student, Experiment, Improvisation- Plan, Do, See, Improve (ASEI-PDSI) approach in mathematics lessons in ...
ABSTRACT There had been a concern over the rising cases of emerging issue like drug and substance, abuse, adolescent pregnancy, abortion, poor performance, truancy, absenteeism, suicide, dropout, HIV and AIDS prevalence among students in secondary schools. This called for the need to investigate or assess the effective implementation of Life Skills Education curriculum in public secondary schools in Uriri and Awendo districts in Migori County. LSE is aimed at equipping the learners with psych...
ABSTRACT The government of Kenya is committed to the goal of quality education for all. However, the problem of poor performance in most primary schools undermines this achievement. Any factor that interferes with the commitment of primary teachers undermines the educational goal. For this reason, there is need to identify factors that contribute to the commitment of primary teachers to task performance in Kenya. This problem is more pronounced in public primary schools. While a number of res...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this Discourse Analysis study was to explain the nature and function of Kĩkamba language interjections in discourse. Kĩkamba is a Bantu language and the Kĩmasaku dialect of the language was the focus of this research study. This survey study used three theories in explaining the nature and function of interjections in Kĩmasaku dialect of Kĩkamba language discourses. The Functional Theory of Interjection (Ameka, 1992), the Speech Acts Theory (Austin 1962) and Brint...
ABSTRACT Literacy development is a multiplex process that begins at birth, continues throughout life and is fostered through stimulating interactions within two instructional environments. Home is the first primary literacy resource that affords a child the best opportunities for literacy practice. A parent is the first primary educator and a potent force in shaping a child’s literacy. By creating literacy-rich homes, parents provide a head start and thrust forward into a child’s literacy...
ABSTRACT HIV/AIDS is a reality among the visually impaired although little research has been done to address this issue. For instance, there are no statistics indicating the number of visually impaired who have died or been infected by the AIDS epidemic in Kenya. Interventions such as HIV/AIDS education and prevention campaigns on safer sex practices have not particularly targeted the visually impaired. This makes them vulnerable to sexual exploitation and at high risk of infection. The ...
ABSTRACT Education is recognized as the most important form of human resource development. It refers to any act of physical experience that has formative effect of individual mind, character or physical ability. In this technical sense, education is the formal process by which society through schools, colleges, universities and other institutions deliberately transmit cultural heritage and accumulated knowledge, values and skills to the next generation. The purpose of this study was to establ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the role headteachers play in instructional supervision in order to improve on students’ academic achievement in Kitui District secondary school as it is perceived by their teachers. The objectives of the study included; to determine the role played by headteachers in instructional supervision as perceived by teachers, to explore strategies that headteachers can employ to improve on their instructional supervision, to investigate the chal...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to determine the extent to which reading difficulties affect academic performance of secondary school students. The study objective was to establish comprehension errors that affect students‟ academic performance. Piaget (1983) theory of cognitive development guided this study. This study employed quantitative approaches for data collection and analyzes both teachers and learners. The research design was a descriptive survey design. Data was collected b...