James Bill Ouda

Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology | MMUST · Department of Educational Psychology

The digital revolution has brought about significant changes in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), transforming teaching, learning, and assessment. The chapter explores the impact of this paradigm shift from analogue to digital methods and discuss how education practices in higher education institutions have been revolutionized. The chapter prov...

A skilled workforce is crucial to countries' economic transformation. Higher education institutions have been under pressure to promote employability by ensuring learners acquire the 21st century skills needed to succeed in the real world. However, there are still gaps in balancing academic and experiential learning approaches. Using data from sele...

This article progresses from a research that was done to investigate the effects of one hundred percent transition policy on the self-esteem of learners in public secondary schools, within Butula Sub County, Busia County, Kenya. Guided by resilience theory, the article employs a descriptive survey design. The target comprises of 3235 participants,...

Early Years Education (EYE) is the crucial stage in the child's physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development. This study, therefore, sought to evaluate the effectiveness of teacher supervision practices in the implementation of the EYE program in the Khwisero Sub-county. The study which targeted key education stakeholders in EYE adopte...

While agriculture is a major source of employment, it is notable that youths in developing countries are unemployed, yet the countries’ economies are dependent on it. Though there are immense prospects in the agricultural sector in Kenya, agriculture is taught in schools as an optional subject under the 8-4-4 syllabus so that it may stimulate youth...

While agriculture is a major source of employment, it is notable that youths in developing countries are unemployed. In Kenya, agriculture is taught in the 8-4-4 syllabus and in the current competency-based curriculum. Despite the above facts, Kenya still requires human resources to drive the agricultural sector. The purpose of this study was to ex...

Several studies in sub-Saharan Africa have looked at the impact of gender norms on the education of girls. Nevertheless, on a national level, limited studies have attempted to directly investigate the girls’ views and their experiences of these norms. Therefore, this study is intended to investigate the influence of gender norms on the education pa...

Secondary schooling for girls is associated with much vulnerability. Sexual research is sometimes curtailed by religious and cultural taboos that consider it inappropriate. Given that girls’ education participation continues to experience setbacks that have a sexual bearing, research breaching these taboos is justified. Hence, the purpose of this s...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the strategies to be employed to mitigate challenges facing students in selection and progression in agriculture careers in tertiary institutions of Bungoma and Kakamega counties, Kenya. Further, the study formulated a conceptual framework based on the research variables, which also aided the formulation of...

With the promulgation of the Kenya Constitution in 2010, the responsibility of Early Year’s Education (EYE) was delegated to county governments. This study, therefore, sought to find out the role of school administrators in the implementation of early childhood education programs in Khwisero sub-county, Kenya. The study used contextual interaction...

All over the world, research has shown that women are underrepresented and generally face discrimination and marginalization on the basis of their gender. It is against this background that this study sought to establish the status of gender inclusion in research among academic members of staff with a focus on Masinde Muliro University of Science a...

Globally, an effective performance appraisal system assists in holding teachers' accountable, addressing underperformance, enhancing performance and best practice. The main objective of this study was to establish the relationship between teachers' performance appraisal and burnout, and find out relationship between self-efficacy, performance appra...

This paper aimed to assess the effect of teachers’ self-efficacy on their performance appraisal in public secondary schools in Sabatia Sub County, Vihiga County, Kenya. The study, anchored on the social cognitive theory, adopted correlational and descriptive survey research designs. Stratified random sampling was used to select 12 schools and 227 t...

Agriculture is one of the optional subjects done in secondary schools in Kenya. This suggests that students enrolment in the subject is influenced by a number of factors. This study aimed to establish teacher related factors influencing enrolment in agriculture in secondary schools in Kakamega North Sub-county, Kakamega County, Kenya. The study whi...

Vihiga Sub-county, having one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Kenya, presented a scenario that warranted an investigation with respect to the re-entry policy. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to establish the impact of the re-entry policy on the retention of expectant students and teen mothers in public secondary schools. The stud...

The field of Early Childhood Education Care (ECEC) has developed considerably since the advent of the pioneering US Head Start program, center based programs, and various home-based programs in the 1960s.Current times require new approaches in ECEC in order to make a positive difference for children who grow up in disadvantaged circumstances as wel...

Abstract. This study measured the correlation between mathematics selfconcept and academic achievement of students at four schools in Vhembe District, South Africa. The study targeted Grade 12 candidates for the South African National Senior Certificate (matric). A sample of 236 respondents – 112 boys and 124 girls – was selected from four schools...

The chapter provides an understanding of the ways COVID-19 is affecting higher education and advances practical strategies for managing the challenges caused by the pandemic. To understand the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education, it is prudent to understand the context within which the institutions of higher learning operate. It als...

The study presented in this article gathered and examined the views of key stakeholders in rural South African secondary schools on strategies for curbing learner dropout. The investigation, which employed a qualitative case study research model, sampled 20 secondary school learners aged 17–20 (11 female, 9 male), 20 youth aged 17–22 (11 female, 9...

10.1 INTRODUCTION Education is a very important invention of the human race. It has transformed humanity and brought about positive changes in the lives of humans and their behaviour by enabling them to acquire the desired knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values through instruction and learning. Education does not begin at school, but rather at...

13.1 Introduction Education in any type of society is vital for the promotion of lifelong social development, and social change, and as a stimulator for growth. Through education poverty may also be eradicated. Education is the foundation for higher and acceptable living standards in society and allows members of society to adjust to and be more fu...

It is impossible to explain predictors of juvenile offending and criminal behavior development using one single theory, but it is possible to recognize possible risk factors that can be directly associated to juvenile offending tendencies among children and young people. Child and youth risk factors to juvenile offending and criminalitylies within...

Since the beginning of this century, a global tendency to abolish corporal punishment has been introduced to challenge old dependence on corporal punishment as a tool for reforming children's misbehavior. This tendency was highly supported by the contemporary call for protecting human rights including the right in security and human treatment and c...

Aggression toward teachers is linked to burnout and disengagement from teaching, but a conducive administrative climate may reduce aggression and associated teacher distress. Burnout affects teachers in schools hence a serious problem since it cannot coexist with teaching engagement. Burnout behavior in teachers is exhibited through high absenteeis...

The paper focused on evaluation of stakeholder capacity to implement the millennium village primary school meal project in Kenya. The study which was anchored on the stakeholder theory as well as the Context Input Process Product (CIPP) model of evaluation used mixed methods research design with ex-post facto and case study as its two research elem...

The paper focused on evaluation of stakeholder capacity to implement the millennium village primary school meal project in Kenya. The study which was anchored on the stakeholder theory as well as the Context Input Process Product (CIPP) model of evaluation used mixed methods research design with ex-post facto and case study as its two research elem...

Background: A study conducted in the Kajiado Central District of Kenya in 2006 showed that there was a high dropout rate among primary schoolgoing children and that their academic performance was poor. The Dupoto-e-Maa education project was implemented in 2007 to address issues related to drop out rate and academic performance. Objectives: The eval...

Food is a basic need required by human beings at any level of development and in any situation. It is the source of nutrients that provides and contributes to the very existence of human beings and also forms the basis of life. The overall emotional, psychological, physical, cognitive and psychomotor development of the human being is dependent on c...

Conflict between the state and the church is an international concern. Governments worldwide have cooperated in Catholic churches in providing education to their citizen. Catholic Church has a right to provide education which is based on its policy. The needs of each of the two groups create conflict in education sector. Literature on Conflicts bet...

Introduction The Millennium Development Goal Centre for East and Southern Africa is based in Nairobi, Kenya, and supports and implements the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in twelve cluster sites in ten African countries – Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia (The Millennium Village Project, 2008)....

Conditions of learning are critical in determining quality of education. There have been real concerns raised by stakeholders regarding the quality of education for pastoralists in public primary schools in Kajiado Central District in Kenya. Interventions have been put in place to address the issue of quality education. One such intervention is the...

The importance of interventions to improve education for marginalized groups cannot be over emphasized. Dupoto-e-Maa Education project was one such intervention. The main purpose of the study was to evaluate the role of Dupoto-e-Maa Education Project in increased enrollment public primary schools for pastoralists in Kajiado Central District, Kenya....

Conditions of learning are critical in determining quality of education. There have been real concerns raised by stakeholders regarding the quality of education for pastoralists in public primary schools in Kajiado Central District in Kenya. Interventions have been put in place to address the issue of quality education. One such intervention is the...