Management practices and students’ academic performance in national examinations in public secondary schools in kiambu county, kenya
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Date
2014
Authors
Orodho, John Aluko
Waweru, Peter Ndirangu
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Abstract
The study examined the extent to which management practices used by schol
principals influence students’ academic performance in national examinations in
public secondary schols in Kiambu County, Kenya. The objectives of the study
were four fold, namely: (i) to examine the extent to which planing
techniques of available human and physical resources influence students’
academic performance;(i) determine efect of strategies aplied to fast track
efective teaching on students’ academic performance; (i) to establish the
relationship betwen student suport services and students’ academic performance
(iv) to establish the efect of monitoring of teaching and learning proceses on
students’ academic performance in public secondary schols in the study locale.
The study adopted a descriptive corelation research design. Combinations of
stratified and simple random sampling techniques were aplied to select 26
principals from public secondary schols in Kiambu County. In-depth data was
generated using semi-structured questionaires from principals. The findings
revealed that here was an asociation betwen most of the identified management
variables such efective planing of human and physical resources, organizational
strategies, curiculum leadership, control measures and students academic
performance in most of the top performing schols in the county. These
management echniques were rarely used in low performing schols in the county.
It is recommended that strategic management techniques for schol principals
should be intensified in al secondary schols in Kiambu County through regular
retraining and overal profesional development
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Management practices, enhanced students’ academic performance, secondary schools,, school principals, strategic management, professional development
Citation
International Journal of Recent Scientific Research Vol. 5, Issue, 6, p. 126-13, June, 2014