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Item Academic Adaptability as Predictor of Academic Achievement among Form Three Students in Kitui County, Kenya(IJIRAS, 2023-10) Muthui, Priscah M.; Mwaura, Peter; Mutua, Josphine NginaStudies that have been done on academic adaptability have demonstrated there is a significant relationship between academic adaptability and academic achievement. The poor performance that has been witnessed among most of the students in sub-county secondary schools in Kitui county could be associated to the students’ academic adaptability among other factors. Specifically, in Kenya little has been done on the academic adaptability as a predictor of academic achievement. This study specifically explored academic adaptability as the predictor of academic achievement. The study was guided Individual Adaptability Theory. The study used Explanatory Sequential Mixed Method research design. The participants were 427, that is 218 boys and 209 girls from ten public sub-county secondary schools in the year 2023. Purposive, stratified, simple random sampling and proportionate sampling was used to select the schools and the participants. Academic adaptability scale was used to collect quantitative data while interview schedule was used to collect qualitative data. Finally, pro forma summary was used to collect academic achievement data. A pilot study involving 30 students was conducted to establish the reliability and validity of the research instruments. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Quantitative data was analyzed using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and multiple regression while the qualitative data was analyzed thematically. The findings revealed that there was a significant and positive relationship between academic adaptability and academic achievement (r=.00,p<.05). Since the students’ academic adaptability was found to have a positive and a significant relationship with their academic achievement, the researcher recommended that it may be of use to conduct the same study on primary school pupils and even students at the tertiary level.Item Academic Psychological Capital as Predictor of Academic Achievement among Form Three Students in Kitui County, Kenya(IOSR-JHSS, 2023-10) Muthui Priscah M.; Mwaura, Peter; Mutua, Josphine NginaAcademic achievement is the main pathway to formal employment all over the world. However, in Kenya poor academic achievement by students nationally has been of great concern to the teachers, parents and all educational stakeholders. More specifically, most secondary school students in Kitui County have been performing below average in national examinations. This poor performance has been attributed to the school environmental factors, teacher factors and little has been done on individual psychological factors, which may contribute to the students’ below average performance. The purpose of this study was to investigate how academic psychological capital predicts academic achievement among form three students in Kitui County. The objective of this study was to examine the extent to which academic psychological capital predicts academic achievement. The study was anchored on Broaden-and-build theory by Fredrickson (2004). Explanatory sequential mixed method design was used. The study targeted 427 form three sub-county secondary school students in Kitui County in the year 2023.Purposive, stratified, simple random sampling and proportionate sampling was used to select the schools and the participants. A questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data while interview schedule was used to collect qualitative data. Finally, pro forma summary was used to collect academic achievement data. A pilot study involving 30 students was conducted to establish the reliability and validity of the research instrument. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Quantitative data was analyzed using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and multiple regression while the qualitative data was analyzed thematically. The findings revealed that there was a significant positive relationship between academic psychological capital and academic achievement (r=.65, p< 0.01). From the multiple regression analysis, it was revealed The best predictor of academic achievement from the sub-scales of academic psychological capital was resilience (𝛽=.525). The qualitative data was analyzed thematically and the findings concurred with the quantitative results. As a result, the findings of this study may be used to inform the teachers, parents and all education stake holders on the importance of academic psychological capital among secondary school students.Item Turmoil Disrupts AIDS Care in Kenya: Post-Election Turmoil in Kenya Has Disrupted the Fragile and Complex Systems for Delivering HIV/AIDS Treatment in Rural Areas. Peter Mwaura Reports from Nairobi.(News)(2008-03) Mwaura, PeterHealth services in Kenya have been scrambling to get life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to thousands of people displaced in a spiral of ethnic violence following the disputed presidential election on 27 December 2007. An estimated one in 20 people are infected with the virus that causes MDS in Kenya, a country of about 35 million people. By early last month, about 250 000 people had fled their homes and were living in temporary shelter, prompting fears that thousands of people with HIV/AIDS would be unable to reach health-care facilities for treatment because of the violence. WHO expressed concern for the well-being of the internally displaced who were sheltering in crowded spaces with poor water supply and sanitation, and shortages of food and medicines. The unrest has been particularly acute in western Kenya, where 62 000 HIV-positive people have been enrolled at 19 clinical sites and seven satellite clinics as part of AMPATH (Academic Model for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV), one of the largest and most comprehensive AIDS programmes in Africa. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Its clinics are located in towns and rural centres, while the main referral centre is at Moi University in Eldoret, one of the parts of Kenya that was worst affected by the violence. "The initial disruption in HIV/ AIDS care was huge and, if prolonged, could have disastrous effects on care and outcomes," said Dr William Michael Tierney, AMPATH's research director. He told the Bulletin that access to medication was "a huge problem because of patients not being able to travel and many staff being homeless, unable to travel, and perhaps leaving permanently because they are of the wrong tribes." Tierney added however that "because we have an electronic medical record system and record the tribe of every patient enrolled, we were able to identify how many of our patients--overall and by care site--were of the Kikuyu tribe and were most likely to be affected (about 4500 patients or 7.4%)." The programme's catchment area in western Kenya has a population of five million with an estimated 300 000 HIV-positive individuals. "Such information allows us to plan for which communities may need more assessment and interventions as we move forward," said Tierney, who is also a professor at Indiana University School of Medicine, which established the programme with Kenya's Moi University Teaching and Referral Hospital in the 1990s. The violence has not only affected AMPATH clients but also its workforce, according to the programme's team leader Dr Joseph Mamlin, who is based in Eldoret. In the first week of violence, less than 10% of the programme's clients and staff found their way to a clinic. "The very next week a remarkable rebound occurred in all sites, except for Burnt Forest," Mamlin told the Bulletin in an e-mail message. "We have multiple large IDP [internally displaced persons] camps, many housing 10 000 to 20 000 people, all around us now. We have been able to work closely with all relief agencies and have the programme's teams engaged in every large camp. …