School of Education, Humanities & Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Implementation of Corporate Strategies on Financial Performance of Sugar Industry :
(JOOUST, 2017)Sugar industry performance in the country has been on a declining trend over the past ten years. Most research has tried to explain this trend with some blaming it on illegal sugar imports and corruption. Little, ... -
Influence of Self-Determination on Mathematics Achievement Among Students in Secondary Schools
(JOOUST, 2019)Achievement in Mathematics is a challenge to students at secondary school level in Kenya. One of the major millennium goals of republic of Kenya is to be industrialized by year 2030. This goal can be achieved by ... -
Influence of Self-Esteem and Selected Demographic Variables on Job Satisfaction of Public Secondary School Teachers in Kenya
(JOOUST, 2018)Job satisfaction is a globally important factor in determining organizational climate and subsequent worker productivity. In Kenya, job dissatisfaction is a major concern as evidenced by teacher ... -
Assessing the Implementation of total quality management principles on academic achievement of pupils in primary schools in Kenya.
(JOOUST, 2019)Despite the presence of management approaches that can be used to enhance academic achievement of pupils, primary schools are faced with the challenge of low academic achievement of pupils in ... -
Relationship Between Principals' Leadership Styles and Motivation of Support Staff in Public Secondary Schools in Kenya
(2018)Staff motivation is a significant factor in enhancing organizational commitment and productivity. In a school system, two types of staff perform their duties in a complimentary manner, namely the teaching staff and the ... -
Influence of Selected Demographic Variables on Teachers Self- Efficacy in Public Secondary Schools.
(2017)Teachers' self-efficacy is belief in their capacity to teach successfully. Globally, studies indicated the importance of teachers' self-efficacy, while studies conducted in Africa suggested that ... -
Development control as a tool for plan implementation.
(JOOUST, 2018)Development control forms an essential part of planning by providing the basis upon which development plans are implemented. The purpose of the is study was therefore to investigate how development control is operationalized ... -
Effectiveness of Implementation of Art and Design Curriculum in Secondary Schools in Western Kenya: Challenges and opportunities
(JOOUST, 2014)Art and Design contributes immensely in all areas of the society such as social, cultural, economic, political, utilitarian, communication and personal expression. There is a wide range of career ... -
Training Needs of Educational Quality Assurance and Standards Officers in Charge of Public Secondary Schools
(JOOUST, 2015)Training of Quality Assurance and Standards Officers (QASOs) is important for the effective performance of their roles. This training is sometimes done without doing Training Needs Analysis (1NA) to find ... -
Challenges Facing Primary Teachers in the Implementation of the Regular Curriculum to Learners With Disabilities in Inclusive Settings in Kisumu county.
(JOOUST, 2017)Teachers teaching in inclusive classrooms encounter the task of having to adapt the curriculum to suit learners with different categories of disabilities in inclusive classroom settings. Hence, they are faced ... -
Effectiveness of selected alternative methods to corporal punishment in managing students' behavior in public secondary schools in Kenya
(JOOUST, 2017)Students' misconduct influences learning and may lead to later school dropout and other negative social outcomes. incidences of student violence have been persistent in secondary schools in Kenya. ... -
Perception of Selected Stakeholders on Contributions of Principals Towards School Plant Management in Secondary Schools.
(Jooust, 2019)Provision, adequacy, utilization and management of educational facilities largely determine the quality and standards of education offered in a school yet there has been tremendous growth in students' ... -
Small Scale Farmers Adaptive Strategies to Climate Change in Crop Production Systems
(JOOUST, 2017)Kakamega County is a rich agricultural area where various food and cash crops are grown. However, changes in climate have an impact on crop production, and hence affect food security especially among small scale crop ... -
Determinants of Performance in Mathematics among Learners with Hearing Impairement in Special Secondary Schools in Kenya
(JOOUST, 2018-07)For long, there have been various arguments about how children who are deaf should be taught. Debate about whether to use sign language, speech, signs in English word order, created sign systems or bilingualism have been ... -
self Regulation as Skills as Predictors of Academic Performance of Orphaned Students in Secondary Schools
(JOOUST, 2018)Orphaned students like other students have needs to be met including quality education. A relatively low academic performance among orphans in Bondo Sub County could be attributed to some life challenges related to ... -
Teacher Preparedness on Integration of Digital Technologies: It's Influence in Early Years of Education
(JOOUST, 2018)Today's children are growing up in a rapidly changing digital age that is different from that of their parents and grandparents with variety of technologies all around their homes and schools. One of the Kenyan national ... -
A Cognitive Analysis of Metaphors in Political Discourse in Kenya: the 2005 Constitutional Referendum
(JOOUST, 2018)Cognitive Linguistics (CL) posits that a cognitive study of language is the study of patterns of conceptualization. It views metaphor as a powerful conceptual mapping at the core of human thought in which abstract concepts ... -
Commitment to Dissidence: Wiles of Depotism in Hama Tuma's Short Stories
(JOOUST, 2019)Post-independence Africa has faced many governance problems chief among them being dictatorship. Citizens of various African countries have committed to a host of responses to counter despotism. The despots have equally ... -
Perceived Effectiveness of Selected Education Stakeholders' in the Enhancement of Students' Academic Performance in Public Mixed Day Secondary Schools in Kenya
(JOOUST, 2020)The government of Kenya provides trained teachers, allocates financial resources, establish Quality Assurance Directorate and facilitates in-service training for principals and teachers. However, with all these measures ... -
An Investigation of Selected Predictors on Quality Education in Public Secondary Schools
(JOOUST, 2018)The quest to ensure that students achieve decent learning outcomes and acquire values and skills that help them play a positive role in their societies is an issue on the policy agenda of Government ...
