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Effects of Parenting Style on Students’ Discipline: A Case of Public Secondary Schools in Buuri Sub-County, Meru County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2016-11)
This study examined the significance of methods of discipline used by parents and how these methods of discipline consequently affect multiple aspects of their child's development in terms of behaviour and academic performance among secondary school students in Buuri Sub-county of Meru County. The study was guided by the following objectives: To establish the effects of parenting style on academic performance in Buuri sub-county in Meru County, to find out the forms of indiscipline associated with parenting style in secondary schools, to determine the influence of parenting styles on boys as compared 1o girls among secondary school students in Buuri sub-county in Meru County and to seek suggestions on the best practices that will ensure discipline issucs related to parenting style are minimized among secondary school students. The study was conceptualized through Albert Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory since it is a social issue tackled by the study. The study adopted descriptive research survey design to collect data through the use of questionnaires and interview schedules as the study instruments. The researcher conducted a pilot study that enabled the researcher to determine the validity and reliability of the instruments. The target population for this study were all public secondary schools in Buuri sub-county where the subject of the study were school heads, teachers and students totaling to 1740. Stratified random sampling was applied to arrive at 194 respondents who participated in the siudy. Descriptive analysis was employed in this research to enable the researcher to calculate the mean value, standard deviation and percentages during data analysis process. Tables and diagrams were obtained for data presentation. The researcher then gave recommendations regarding the effects of parenting style on the students’ discipline. This study concludes that authoritative parenting style for secondary school students in Buuri Sub-County consistently yielded results indicating that parenting styles can enhance or diminish acceptable behavioral outcomes. Parents should be encouraged to embrace warm and responsive parenting which has consistently been associated with positive developmental outcomes, such as secure emotional attachments, good peer relations, high self-esteem and a strong sense of morality and this may lead to better performance. The study is expected to be of great use since it may act as guideline when making policies regarding discipline among secondary school students. In such they may be able o come up with policies that encompasses all causes of indiscipline in secondary school and provide a remedy for them. The study is expected to be of great importance to the parents and teachers since it is expected 1o provide a guideline on how some kind of indiscipline is related to the parenting style that is adopted by a particular parent.
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Influence of Principals’ Instructional Supervision on Public Secondary School Students’ Academic Performance in Tigania East Sub-County, Meru County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2016-10) Marangu, Martin Mwiti
The principal’s role is to promote academic performance in schools. The success or failure of a school is usually attributed 10 the principal. He or she is the pivot around which many aspects of the school revolve, being the person in charge of every detail of running the school, be it academic or administrative. Schools can make a difference to students’ academic performance and the principal’s leadership is a factor dclcrmining that success. [t is therefore important that the performance of a school is appraised against the performance of the person who leads it. The researcher was prompted 1o carry out rescarch on the influence of principal’s instructional supervision on public secondary school students® academic s performance in Tigania Last sub-county duc to the poor performance of this sub- county in KCSE results. For instance the sub-county was position 142 out of 280 sub-counties in the country in the year 2012 KCSE and position 141 out of 283 sub- counties in 2013 KCSE results. This is a very low performance that could not be explained without focused research. This study had threc main objectives namely: to mdentify principal’s instructional leadership strategies that influence teachers’ instructional practices and subsequent studznts’ performance, to find out teachers’ attitudes towards instructional supervision and to establish the challenges faced by principals in instructional supervision. The study was guided by path-goal theory which postulates that a leader’s behavior is contingent to the satisfaction, motivation and performance of his or her subordinates and that the leader engages in activities that compliment subordinates’ abilities and compensate for deficiencies. The study used descriptive survey research design. The target population of the study was 30 public secondary schools in Tigania East Sub County. Twelve schools were sampled for the study. Each school yielded 10 teachess selected through systematic sampling and the principals were purposively selected g ing a total of 132 respondents. The researcher collected the data personally using questionnaires. The reliability of the instruments was determined using test-retest technique. Data analysis was done using SPSS and data presented using tables, pic charts and bar graphs. Conclusions were made and suggestions for [urther study suggested. It was established from the study, that the principals communicated insiructional goals, and ensured that (he teachers knew what was expected of them, held regular meetings, and informed teachers on the mean score achieved, communicated performance expectations and passed notices on the expecled mean score. The study further revealed thal the teachers did not appreciate instructional supervision. The challenges facing principals in carrying out instructional goals were teachers’ work load. (ime available for principals (o teach. availability of books and syllabus coverage. The study recommends that principals should comrunicate more regularly to ensure that the teachers understood them and had therm in mind al ays. The study also reccommends that the TSC and the MOE personnel should frequently visit schools for their normal advisory meetings with both the teaching staff and swidents.