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 study examined the contribution of school heads on teachers` motivation in Tanzania from the perception and experiences of school heads and teachers of four selected ward based secondary schools in Mafinga town council. Herzberg‟s Two Factor theory was used as theoretical framework. The study responded to specific objectives by: identifying and examining the most effective factors that motivate teachers, examine the strategies employed by schools heads in motivating teachers an...
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...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the determinants of career choice among undergraduate students with physical disabilities in higher education institutions in Tanzania. The motive for undertaking the study was to understand the determinants factors influencing career choice for students with physical disabilities. The study had three objectives, namely to identify the influence of parents on making a career choice for students with physical disabilities in higher education institutions in Ta...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine challenges facing Head Teachers (HTs) in implementing Free Primary Education (FPE) policy in public primary school in Zanzibar West District Unguja. The study aimed at finding out roles of HTs in implementing FPE policy, challenges facing HTs in implementing FPE policy and strategies employed by HTs to overcome challenges. The study used cross-sectional survey design and was mainly qualitative supported by quantitative research approach. The d...
ABSTRACT The study investigated influence of LANES professional development programmes in enhancing numeracy and literacy skills, in public primary schools in Dodoma Municipality in Tanzania. The study was based on the Andragogy learning theory which guided the study to understand the LANES influential level on teachers‟ competencies in improving numeracy and literacy skills to children; the extent at which learned LANES professional skills have enhanced children‟s literacy and numeracy ...
Abstract Language, both oral and written, is a tool used by a human being in communicating ideas, concepts and sharing experiences in variety of social contexts. It is also necessary in school activities’ instructions. The social contexts essential for enhancing children’s language are the home and school. It is because of this background that the current study was undertaken to establish how parents’ and teachers’ interaction constitute an essential ingredient in the development o...
ABSTRACT The main focus of this study was to find out the impact of teacher absenteeism on pupils’ learning drawing inferences from Kigoma/Ujiji Municipal. The study used both qualitative and quantitative approaches in gathering, analyzing and presenting the data obtained from the field. Data collection methods employed in this study include questionnaires, interviews and documentary review. A sample of 69 respondents was drawn from the population of pupils, school academic masters, head t...
ABSTRACT This study primarily investigated the kinds of Learner Support Services (LSS) which are provided by the Institute of Adult Education (IAE) to secondary education through Open and Distance Learning (SE-ODL) students, specifically in Dodoma Region; it also measured the usefulness of these LSS to SE-ODL students and sought to find the best LSS that may be employed by IAE to SE-ODL students. The study was guided by Vygotsky‟s Social-Cultural Theory (SCT) and Holmberg‟s Theory of Dis...
ABSTRACT This study sought to assess the impact of mining activities on educational development. The theoretical frame work of this study was grounded on the Open System theory. Open System theory asserts that, a system does not exist in the vacuum. It is dependent on its environment in which it is established. Its implication is that, education development as a system depends on mining environment of Geita through which it was established. So mining environment, can affect educational devel...
ABSTRACT The discourse of quality in pre-primary education (PPE) programmes has gained prominence across the world and resulted into search for what it means as well as constituted from the stakeholders‟ understanding. This study explored the stakeholders‟ construction of quality of the PPE in Tanzania with special attention to policy as a discourse. The study was conducted in 15 public pre-primary schools of the Dodoma Urban District involving 21(two male and 19 female) PPE teachers, 10...
ABSTRACT This study examined the stakeholders‟ perceptions on the effectiveness of cost sharing policy in public Universities, a case of University Dodoma. The study employed a mixed approach where both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. Further, the study employed a cross sectional research design in data gathering whereas the system theory by Ludwig (1968) and partnership model by Reddy (2002) guided the study. Data were collected from 116 respondents through questionnair...
ABSTRACT The study intended to examine the Assessment of teacher‟s Management on students with single parent care towards academic performance in Secondary schools in Tanzania: A case of Dodoma Municipality. Specifically the study embrace to examine care and management provided by teachers and parents to student‟s with single parent in Dodoma municipality. Identify problems facing students with single parent care towards academic performance in Dodoma municipality and recommend policy op...