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A SURVEY REPORT ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ADVANCE ORGANIZERS RESEARCH
Get PDFEffect of advance organizers on students’ achievement and
retention of subjects concepts at various learning levels has been
a vibrant area of research in education.
Use of advance organizers has been attributed to overcoming low
performance of students in subjects like chemistry, physics and
others.
The causes of low performance has been attributed to insufficient
man power, lack of equipment, poor attitude of students, poor
understanding of concepts involved and even overloaded
curriculum and ineffective teaching.
Recently published research results on the effectiveness of
advance organizers in teaching. Integration of technology for the
construct
If seen as an intervention to improving performance and retention,
teachers and tutors will be encouraged to adopt advance
organizer teaching strategy
INFLUENCE OF STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY ON SERVICE DELIVERY IN PUBLIC SERVICE: A CASE STUDY OF DIRECTORATE OF IMMIGRATION AND REGISTRATION OF PERSONS
No full textFULL TEXTService delivery is the main mandate of the public sector and efficiency is critical to service delivery. However, the public sector has experienced several challenges in service delivery provision that impact the quality, timeliness and costs of these services. In the Directorate of Immigration and Registration of Persons (DIRP),consequences for poor service delivery includes lack of adequate access to documents such as national identity cards, birth and death certificates. Consequently, the public sector in Kenya has been making substantial investment in strategic technology to improve its service delivery capability. However, how this strategic technology improves service delivery function remains a key question given the challenges the DIRP. This study, therefore, sought to examine the influence of application of strategic technology on service delivery at DIRP. Amongst the aspects of strategic technology that were examined include the influences of records management aspects, proficiency of technology usage, ease of use of strategic technology, and one-stop model aspects of strategic technology on service delivery. This study used correlation research design and targeted the DIRP in Nairobi National Headquarters. The accessible population comprised all the 1059 employees of the directorate working at the head office distributed amongst diverse service departments. From these, Nassiuma‘s formula was applied to obtain a sample size of 91 respondents. This study used proportionate stratified sampling method. They used copies of a pre-tested structured questionnaire to collect data. Data was analyzed using t-test, f-test, chi squares, correlations and multiple linear regressions. Through the findings, the study established that proficiency of strategic technology usage (β = 0.161, p < 0.05), ease of use of strategic technology (β = 0.407, p < 0.05) and the onestop-model (β = 0.279, p < 0.05) significantly affected service delivery in the Directorate of Immigration. The ease of use of strategic technology was the most influential variable while proficiency was the least influential variable influencing service delivery at the Directorate. However, the application of strategic technology to records management was not found to significantly influence service delivery in the Directorate (β = -0.055, p ˃ 0.522). The study, therefore, recommends that the protocols for retrieval of information through the use of digital record management systems should be made easy for the staffs in the Directorate. The management of the Directorate should also put more emphasis on skills upgrading through trainings and workshops to ensure that skills transfer happen rapidly and that emerging issues and challenges are broadly addressed at this point. The study further recommends that the Directorate should make provisions for the users to remark on the system through frequently asked questions (FAQ) appendage. Finally, it is recommended that the Directorate and other line government agencies should emphasize the fast tracking of digitalization of personal records and information so as to reduce the levels of paperwork needed for immigration purposes and make the one-stop model a better customer service reality
Impacts of Infrastructure Development on African Cape Buffalo Behavior: A Case Study of Lake Nakuru National Park, Nakuru County, Kenya
No full textFULL TEXTInfrastructure development is a necessary activity; however, if the developers do not consider the
environment during the design, planning and construction stages, ecosystem losses are bound to
happen. African Cape buffalo behavior alteration is the main challenge caused by the existence
of infrastructure in Lake Nakuru National Park. The primary purpose of this study was to assess
the effects of infrastructural development on African buffalo behavior in Lake Nakuru National
Park. Primary data collection was done using; Key Informant Interviews (KIIs), structured
questionnaires and field observation. Secondary data was collected by reviewing government
documents, published documents and related documents. Quantitative data was managed using
Statistical Package for social science (SPSS). The study sought to recommend strategies to
remedy the behavioural changes of the African Cape buffalo triggered by infrastructure existence
in Lake Nakuru National Park.1. National Research Fund
2. Sentimental Energy Lt
Political and Regulatory Environment Nexus with Growth of Export Oriented Entrepreneurship. A Survey of Performance of Selected Exporting Firms in Kenya
No full textFull textKenya’s endeavor to develop an export led growth of its economic development has been
ongoing for decades. It is documented in Sessional Paper No. 1 of 1986 on Economic
Management for Renewed Growth, Vision 2030 and more recently in its 2017 to 2022 national
growth policy dubbed the Big 4 Agenda. This has involved a paradigm shift in trade policy, from
an inward to an outward approach that forays trade as a key contributor to economic growth
target rate of 10% per year. This notwithstanding exporting firms are yet to record regional or
global competitive levels that would envisaged in such policy agenda. So this research thus
sought to determine the effect of the specific political and regulatory frameworks on strategic
entrepreneurship of Kenya’s exporting firms. It was based onan extraction of GEM model
adaption by UNCTAD2004. The study applied the survey research design to collect data from
n=174 sampled export firms registered with Export Promotion Council (EPC) - Kenya. The
findings were that political forcescontributed to 12.9% of the predicted outcome ofgrowth of
export-oriented entrepreneurship with independent variables as political-economic conditions,
local politics environment, and international political environment. While regulatory
environment, and local political environment were significantly affecting growth of exportoriented
entrepreneurship, international political environment effect was not significant
(p=0.05).The study therefore recommends that the Government in its intent to support the Big 4
Agenda through export oriented economic focus, it must address the need to ensure that the
regulatory environment must be supportive and the local political environment should be stable
through countering threats such as terrorism, violent political activism, and other forms of
political tensions. Kenya’s national entrepreneurship policy should specifically address political
and regulatory environment that ensure favorable environment necessary for export oriented
firms for its agenda for its economic growth to become competitively export driven
High-Performance Computing in Materials Science
No full textFull textComputational modeling in materials science involves the employment of fundamental
physical and life sciences as well as computer science to study the properties of matter at the
microscopic level. Such studies can be carried out by electronic or atomistic approaches and the
outcomes used to complement the applied sciences as well as to guide experimental research work.
Over the last decade, affordable computing resources coupled with community developed state-ofthe-
art codes are available for graduate students and research staff even in the developing world,
where there is limited funding. This has been made possible through collaborative research or via
initiatives from friendly partners in Europe and America. It is, therefore, possible to engage in
quality research for capacity building or the development of products and services. Computational
modeling can now predict, independently, outcomes of some materials properties to within
accuracies of less than 5% compared with independent experimental techniques. This implies that
computational modeling can be used as a decision support tool, enabling tests before production,
hence cutting down costs from the previous trial and error approaches. Current problems in science
and technology require a multidisciplinary approach such as that being employed in computational
modeling and hence its applications in both fundamental and applied sciences. Due to the
accessibility of resources to perform research using computational modeling in materials and other
applied sciences, additional effort needs to be made to involve more graduate students and faculty
in these areas for capacity building. In due course, it is expected that the research capacity realized
will be focused to solve current and emerging problems in this country
The use of “Power-Words” in animistic Tugen Worldview in light of biblical perspectives
No full textFULL TEXTSome of the phenomenological features of the practice of animism in Tugenworldview are
the exercise of controlling both physical and spiritual realms, especially in handling
stressful life challenges to the “known meaningful” worldview. This can be done by the use
the following: words, symbolism, magic, charms, fetishes, witchcraft and sorcery.This
paper examines the phenomena of Power- Words which have significant power to exert
control of both the physical and spiritual or invisible realm. Power-Words have power
beyond the ordinary speech of communicating ideas. It is direct and do not need
meditation.The study found out that Power-Words are said to have inherent power to deal
with all realms of life. They are used in the animistic worldview for protection, provision
and treatment against the exigencies of life experienced in the physical and spiritual world.
In the use of Power-Words,the findings observed that a careful application of Power-Words
is needed so as to avoid syncretistic attitude that enters biblical worldview from animistic
worldview which presupposes the sovereignty of man where he plans what is desirable for
oneself in his environment. Man becomes God for himself or become co-equal with God,
which is a humanistic attitude of trying to achieve one’s own desired goals. This is a false
authority in handling and working out one’s own destiny. This piece of work concludes that
God cannot be manipulated in any form or any means. God will not share his glory with
man, hence Power-Words used by man without acknowledging the sovereignty of God is
contrary to the character and nature of God.1. National Research Fund
2. Sentimental Energy Lt
Towards an Information Security Maturity Model for Universities Based On ISO 27001
Get PDFInformation infrastructure is one of the most important assets in universities. With rapid
advancement in technology, it poses a challenge as adversaries have come up to attack information and
information systems. Most of the Information security attacks are normally targeted to organizations unaware
coupled with the fact that most of the higher educational institutions are not aware of their information security
posture. Therefore measuring the level of security of an organization would be vital in preparedness towards
information security. In this paperthe study proposes a framework for assessing university information security
maturity status. The said framework will take into consideration ISO 27001 by involving specific clauses
relevant to universities. The cumulative factors contributed from risk domains can then be used for computation
of information maturity
(In)Validity of Egypt’s Reservations to The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
Get PDFOn May 9 2001, the Arab Republic of Egypt ratified the African Charter
on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. Along with said ratification, Egypt
submitted five reservations against Articles 21 (2), on child marriage, 24 on
adoption, 30 (a-e) on the special treatment of children of imprisoned moth-
ers, 44 establishing the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and
Welfare of the Child’s competence to receive communications and 45 (1)
granting the Committee competence to undertake investigations in state
parties. Botswana, Mauritania and Sudan have also collectively entered
four other reservations, with Sudan entering a fifth also on child marriage
(Article 21.2). While reservations to human rights treaties are the subject of
torturous inquiry as to their validity, severability of invalid reservations, and
competence to so determine, Egypt’s last two reservations, being jurisdic-
tional in nature, raise probably the prickliest of questions in this respect. In
the context of African international human rights law’s compulsory quasi-
judicial treaty body competence tradition, the extent to which a state can
validly reserve consent to be bound to treaty body jurisdiction attains an
even more prickly status. These jurisdictional reservations and their valid-
ity, severability or otherwise, and the process international law has gone
through in attempting to address these problems will be analysed here