Most public schools in Kenya post poor results amid claims that parents are not supportive of their children’s educational activities at school. While research has shown that parental involvement in primary schools is a significant contributor to the mental capacity, social and cognitive behaviour of students, public primary schools in Ainabkoi sub-county are yet to achieve. This paper draws our attention to a study that was conducted in the sub-county to investigate the relationship between parental involvement in pupils’ educational activities at school and their academic performance in public primary schools. This study was guided by Type 3 Epstein’s model of the six types of parent involvement as developed by Joyce Epstein. The study adopted ex-post facto research design and considered a target population of 2404 Class 8 pupils and 61 class teachers from which 331 Class eight pupils and 61 teachers were drawn using stratified random sampling and census approach, respectively. Questionnaire and interview schedule were used for data collection which was later analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics were analyzed in the form of percentages and means. Chi-square was used to test the hypotheses of the study. The found out that there was a positive and significant relationship between parental participation in educational activities at school(X<sup>2</sup>=22.619; p=0.001) and pupils’ academic performance in Ainakboi Sub County. Qualitative data were analyzed using a thematic framework. The study concluded that parental involvement in educational activities in school was positively related to academic performance. The study recommended that the government should sensitize parents on involvement in their children’s school activities through policy development to improve their academic performance.
This paper is an outcome of a study that was conducted to find out the extent to which communication between parents and teachers influence pupils' academic performance in public primary schools in Ainabkoi Sub County, Kenya. Communication as portrayed in this paper can take the form of conferences/ meeting, telephoning writing notes, and face to face dialogue between parents and teachers. Founded on the theory of six types of parental involvement by Joyce Epstein's, the study adopted ex-post facto research design. A target population of 2404 Class 8 pupils and 61 class teachers was considered from which 331 class eight pupils were selected using stratified simple random sampling technique. Census approach was employed for the class teachers. Questionnaire and interview schedule were used to collect data. Quantitative data was then analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics in form of percentages, means and chi-square while qualitative data was analyzed using thematic framework. There was a positive and significant relationship between parent-teacher communication (X 2 =10.087; p=0.039) and academic performance. Parent-teacher communication is therefore a positive predictor of pupils' academic performance in primary schools. Such communication should be enhanced to make better the academic performance of pupils in the final examinations.
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of economic factors on mortgage uptake in Eldoret Kenya. Though the Kenya government through the constitution has recognized the right to accessible and adequate housing with reasonable sanitation, availability of housing still remains a major challenge in urban areas not excluding Eldoret town. The study sought to investigate the effect of economic factors on mortgage uptake in Kenya. The study adopted ex-post facto research design. This study targeted 130 staff members in selected departments in Housing finance Corporation and customers to housing finance in Eldoret branch. Simple random sampling technique was adopted to select a sample of 98 respondents was chosen for the study. Questionnaires were adopted as data collection instrument. The study established that there is a negative and significant relationship between economic factors and mortgage uptake in Housing Finance Corporation (p=0.024<0.05 β=-0.497). The study concluded that economic factors had an effect on mortgage uptake in Housing Finance Corporation in Eldoret. The study recommended that the government should enact legislation which regulates the inflation and interest rates in the banking industry so as to protect the interests of both consumers and lenders in mortgage financing.
Influence of Teachers' Educational Qualification on Their Attitude towards Supervision in Keiyo North Sub County, Kenya 1. Introduction Enlightening observation is the procedure or act of ensuring that the policies, principles and methods established for achieving the objectives of education are properly and successfully carried out (Dor, 2012). It entails employing expert principles to superintend, weigh and collaboratively to promote the prevailing situations of training. According to Sergiovanni and Starratt (2010), supervision constitutes an opportunity for teachers to develop their capacities towards contributing to students' academic success. Supervision helps educators to encirclement all happenings that are concentrating unambiguously towards establishing, maintaining and improving teaching and learning processes in schools. Its aim is to ensure the quality and objectives of Ministry of Education are achieved (Adenaike & Adebanjo, 2013). According to Dor (2012), supervision can be seen as a way of advising, guiding, refreshing, encouraging, stimulating, improving and overseeing people with the aim of enriching their working links. In most cases, school supervisors perceive their duty as an indispensable force to improve teachers' productivity. Conversely, often, instructors being superintended distinguish supervision as provocation by the overseers. These discernments have been accredited to the practice of old-fashioned methodologies of supervision by eminence workforces, which are pigeonholed by fault-finding, objectionable disparagements and denunciation of instructors (Adenokun, 2010). Instructors' insolences towards supervision constitute a significant influential factor of eminence in edification. Instructors' recognition and collaboration with supervision modus operandi, approaches, facsimiles and progressions offer a prospect for charming in operative instructional supervision accomplishments (Wanjiru, 2015). Nevertheless, utmost instructors recognize superintendents with contempt which attends to aggravate their deleterious insolences towards supervision (Okumbe, 2011). In technologically advanced realms, supervision has been recounted as actuality better systematized and well-coordinated. In the United States of America (USA), for example, supervision is done through surveillance of lecture theatre instruction, scrutiny of pragmatic records and face to face interface of the overseer and the instructor (Webb, Metha & Jordan, 2010). In USA, supervisors accentuates on engagement of peer appraisal between school administrators and instructors. Nonetheless, fault-finding and ill-treatment practices apprise instructors' destructive insolences concerning supervision. This is for the intent that instructors feel beleaguered when they are found impromptu, which makes them to disinclination the instructional supervision isometrics (Webb et al., 2010). In France, schools' super vision and scrutiny engross demanding methodologies (Glickman & Gordon, 2010). The instruction progressions are fundamentally well...
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