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Owino, Elizabeth Akinyi – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This paper assesses the type of services delivered by the existing Guidance and Counselling units in secondary schools in Kenya based on a survey conducted in Eldoret Municipality in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. The study adopted an ex-post facto research design the target population being all secondary schools in the Municipality where a sample was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
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Karimi, Florah Katanu – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The types of academic programmes offered by universities, both public and private, are considered to be critical to the realization of development agendas. This study was descriptive in nature and sought to establish whether universities in the East African region were offering academic programmes that were relevant to the realization of the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Relevance (Education), College Role, Intellectual Disciplines
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Silyvier, Tsindoli; Nyandusi, Charles – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The purpose of the study was to assess the effect of teacher characteristics on their competence in developing resilience in vulnerable primary school children. A descriptive survey research design was used. This study was based on resiliency theory as proposed by Krovetz (1998). Simple random sampling was used to select a sample size of 108…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Characteristics, Resilience (Psychology), Elementary School Students
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Wamala, Robert; Chamberlain, Jean; Nabachwa, Mary Sonko – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2012
This paper examines the contribution of universities towards students' awareness of issues related to Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The assessment is based on data of 1,920 students randomly selected from universities in Uganda and Kenya. Frequency distributions, the Chi-square test, and complementary log-log regression were used for…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Program Effectiveness, Statistical Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Muhingi, Wilkins Ndege; Mutavi, Teresia; Kokonya, Donald; Simiyu, Violet Nekesa; Musungu, Ben; Obondo, Anne; Kuria, Mary Wangari – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Given the known positive and negative effects of uncontrolled social networking among secondary school students worldwide, it is necessary to establish the relationship between social network sites and academic performances among secondary school students. This study, therefore, aimed at establishing the relationship between secondary school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Secondary School Students, Academic Achievement
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Anditi, Zephania O.; Okere, Mark, I. O.; Muchiri, Daniel R. – European Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Chemistry is one of the subjects that students sit for in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). The attainment of students in chemistry in KCSE has been quite low. An analysis of the past Chemistry examination papers taken in KCSE reveals that the papers test students' competencies in various aspects of Cognitive Science Process…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Academic Achievement, Science Achievement