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Determinants of Secondary School Learners Performance in Christian Religious Education in Lelan Sub County, Kenya
Get PDFIn Kenya, Christian Religious Education is taught and examined by the Kenya National Examinations Council in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education at the end of the four years of Secondary Education cycle. The teaching of this subject in Secondary Schools ensures that learners are offered an opportunity to develop morally and spiritually (Education Act, 2011). Christian Religious Education was earlier on examined with Social Education and Ethics as rival and complementary subjects. But, as years went by, the students’ performance in Christian Religious Education declined. This rivalry necessitated the need to investigate students’ performance in Christian Religious Education in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education in Lelan Division of West Pokot County. Five objectives and a corresponding number of null hypotheses were adopted. The Stratified sampling technique was employed to select two hundred and four (204); students, teachers, head teachers and a response rate of two hundred (200). Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. It was established that students’ poor performance in Christian Religious Education was influenced by; the teaching of Social Education and Ethics (SEE), student –teacher relationship, students’ self determination, adequacy of resources, teachers’ and students’ attitudes towards Christian Religious Education besides the extent of teacher involvement in marking Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examination examinations. The study recommended in- service training for Christian Religious Education teachers, construction of cost effective day secondary schools, Kenya National Examinations Council’s involvement of teachers in marking Christian Religious Education and elimination of Social Education and Ethics as an examinable subject. Keywords: Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, performance, attitudes, Christian Religious Education, Social Education and Ethic
Impact of Selected Constituency Development Fund Activities on Education Development in Likuyani Constituency, Kenya
Get PDFThe purpose of the study was to determine the impact of selected Constituency Development Fund activities on education development in Likuyani Constituency. The study set out to achieve the following objectives: To establish how Constituency Development Fund has been used to facilitate the provision of physical facilities in public secondary schools in Likuyani constituency and to determine the influence of the fund on leaners’ retention.The study used descriptive survey research design and simple random sampling technique. A sample size of ten (10) public secondary schools out of twenty four (24) schools was selected where ninety seven (97) respondents from students, teachers, headteachers and education officers provided data upon which the findings are based. Information was collected using Questionnaire and interview schedule. Instrument validity and reliability was determined through pilot study. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse and interpret data. The main findings of the study based on each of the research questions were as follows: Regarding the extent of CDF funded physical facilities in public secondary schools, it was found out that the projects which most benefited from CDF funds were the school land 4 (50%), science laboratory 3(37.5) and computer laboratory 3 (37.5%).The study also established that learners’ retention and rates increased after the introduction of CDF fund although it was still below the expectation with all schools enrolling between 150-200 students ten years down the line and an average completion rate of 69%.Based on the foregoing findings, several conclusions and recommendations were arrived at: First, CDF funds have helped to facilitate the provision of physical facilities in public secondary schools in Likuyani Constituency to a small extent, 46.7% although the facilities were still not enough. Secondly, the number of learners’ retention rate had significantly gone up with the introduction of CDF. The study recommended that the government should allocate enough funds to ensure that facilities constructed are enough and well equipped. Secondly, the government should increase funds allocated to CDF bursary so that learners’ can fully pay school fee thus increasing the retention and completion rates of students. Keywords: Constituency Development Fund, education development, impact, physical facilities, public secondary education, enrolment, retention and completion
Learner and Environmental Factors Influencing Students’ Academic Achievement in Chemistry in Public Day Secondary Schools in Nandi East Sub County Kenya
No full textThe study sought to establish the influence of learner characteristics on learners’ academic achievement in Chemistry and to establish the extent to which the learning environment influence learners’ academic achievement in chemistry in public day secondary schools in Nandi East Sub County. This study used Ex post facto research design. The study target population was 1164 students, 20 chemistry teachers, and 20 principals. A sample size of 18 public day secondary schools was selected for this study. A total of 255 learners were selected proportionately, to avoid biasness, eighteen chemistry teachers and 18 principals making a total of 255 respondents. Simple random sampling technique was used in selecting the learners who took part in the research. Purposive sampling technique was used when selecting the Chemistry teachers and the principal due to their role as teachers of Chemistry and administrative role respectively. A questionnaire, an interview schedule and a document analysis were the main instruments of data collection. Validity and reliability of these instruments was ascertained before the actual data collection in the field. This was done through piloting of questionnaire instruments in the neighbouring Nandi Central Sub County. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected in the selected Public Day Secondary Schools. The qualitative data was analysed using content analysis, while quantitative data was analysed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Learner characteristics had a positive and significant effect on learners’ academic achievement of (β=.828, p < 0.05) and learning environment had a positive and significant effect on learners’ academic achievement of (β=.093, p < 0.05). The study further concluded that Learner characteristics and learning environment affects learners’ academic achievement. Frequent practicals done, Charts, models and other teaching aids should be used during chemistry lessons because they enhance learners’ academic achievement. KEY WORDS: learner and environmental factors, influencing, student academic achievement. DOI: 10.7176/JEP/14-31-07 Publication date: November 30th 2023
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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