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Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of Degree of Master of Education in the School of Education of Kenyatta University. November, 2015
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This article describes a qualitative exploration of a primary school in a remote rural community of Tanzania, whose students showed promising performance in mathematics, as measured by the Primary School Leaving Examinations (PSLE). Case study methods were used to conduct research about the school and community in order to understand the dynamics that shape the school and village as community and communities. Interviews, focus groups, and observations were conducted. The paper identifies the...
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The purpose of this study was to determine the learners' perceptions with regard to teenage pregnancy at Phuthi-Nare High School in Sekhukhune District in Limpopo Province South Africa. Unplanned teenage pregnancy is a public health concern as it disrupts the education of learners, limit future economic and social development chances for the teenagers affected. Validity of the content of research instrument was established through review of published articles from peer reviewed journals, to...
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The quantitative study adopted ex-post–facto research design. Two research questions and one hypothesis were used for the study. Sample was 400 students from 20 schools in Nigeria, including students with special needs. Instrument for data collection was a questionnaire. Research questions were analyzed with mean and standard deviation, while analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the hypothesis. Findings of the study showed that parental socio-economic status is not a strong...
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The study investigated the influence of marital status on teachers’ self-efficacy in public secondary schools of Kisumu County, Kenya. Concurrent Triangulation Design was adopted to collect quantitative and qualitative data from samples of 327 students and 12 teachers. The interview schedule and questionnaire were piloted with 2 and 33 teachers respectively, who did not participate in the survey. Piloting helped to clarify the test items, determine construct validity (r = 0.564 for items...
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The study investigated the influence of gender on teachers' self-efficacy in public secondary schools of Kisumu County, Kenya.Bandura's (1989) Social Cognitive Theory guided the study.The study employed the mixed methods approach within which a concurrent triangulation design was used.The target population was 1790 teachers in 143 public secondary schools from which a sample size of 327 teachers was drawn using stratified random sampling.Questionnaires and interview schedule were used to...
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This study examined the influence of insecurity of school environment on the behavior of secondary school students. A total of 200 students responded to a self-structured validated questionnaire designed for the study. Three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Independent samples t-tests were used in analysing the data. The findings revealed that Isiala-Ngwa North and South Local Government Areas were significantly different ( p .05) between the insecurity of private and public...
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The study examined the political empowerment of women through literacy education programmes in Edo and Delta States in the South-South Geopolitical zone of Nigeria. A sample of 1022 women was randomly drawn from the different levels of literacy classes organised by the Agency of Adult and Nonformal Education and non-governmental and private organisations in the area under investigation. Psychological empowerment scale and socio-political scale were used for data collection. These were...
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This paper examined the effect of roommate relationships on students' development in a selected university campus.It used questionnaire to collect data from 470 respondents in a faith based university, Ota, Ogun State Nigeria.The study engaged Spearman's correlation method to test hypotheses formulated for the study at 0.01 level of significance.The study found a correlation between roommate relationship and students' academic performance and students' spiritual life.The study equally found...
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The advent of Information Technology (IT) has broadened and widened education delivery in most countries of the world.Consequently, some countries are using IT to deliver education to people online.Unfortunately, however, on-line learning has not been widely instituted at all levels of education in Ghana.Certainly, before the educational institutions in the country can embark on such an endeavour, the concerns of stakeholders who have vested interest in on-line learning ought to be...
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There is a rapid growth of the application of mobile devices as a learning aid especially in developing countries such as Nigeria largely due to affordability, interest and availability of mobile handheld devices. Though web-based learning systems such as m-learning are used nowadays to support several learning activities and learners are generally willing to use the devices for learning, cybersecurity negligence poses a huge threat to this beneficial system. This work used questionnaires...
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A rapidly growing body of research examines how weather variability, anomalies and shocks influence economic and societal outcomes. This study investigates the effects of weather shocks on African smallholder farmers in British colonial Africa and intervenes in the debate on the mediating effect of cash crops on resilience to shocks. We employ a dual research strategy, involving both qualitative and econometric analysis. We analyse original primary evidence retrieved from annual...