Impact of head teachers' role on pupils' academic achievements in public primary schools in Mathioy a Sub county, Murang' a County Kenya
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2014
Authors
Kiragu, Samuel Ndirangu
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Abstract
There has been an outcry from the general public about the low pupil's achievements in the
Kenya Certificate of Primary Education in Mathioya Sub-county and Muranga County. This
study will seek to investigate the impact of head teachers' role on pupils' academic
achievements in public primary schools in Mathioya Sub-county. The study will have four
specific objectives which will be to; assess how head teachers' instructional supervision
affect pupils' academic performance in Mathioya Sub-county's public primary schools;
determine how strategies used by head teachers to motivate teachers affect pupils' academic
performance: evaluate how head teachers' provision of teaching/learning materials affect
pupils' academic performance; assess how head teachers involvement of parents in school
academic programs affect pupils academic performance. To achieve the objectives, the
study will adopt descriptive survey design. The target population of the study will be 58 head
teachers, 613 teachers, 2318 class 8 pupils in public primary schools, one Sub-county Quality
Assurance and standards Officer (Q.A.S.O), and 58 standard eight parents' representatives in
Mathioya Sub-county. Stratified random sampling will be used to draw a sample size of 329
respondents consisting of 232 pupils, 61 teachers, 18 head teachers', 18 standard eight
parents' representatives and a Q.A.S.O. The four school zones in the sub-county will form
the strata from which the respondents will be randomly picked. Closed and open ended
questionnaires and interview guides will be used to collect the data from the respondents. The
instruments will be piloted in four schools in Mathioya sub-County one from each zone.
Reliability of the instruments will be tested using split-half technique and a reliability
coefficient will be computed using spearman's Brown Prophesy. A validity test will also be
conducted through piloting the instruments and items adjusted accordingly. The data
collected will be analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative
data will be analyzed using SPSS to generate frequencies, percentages, mean scores and
standard deviations. The qualitative data will be analyzed using content analysis by grouping
data into themes which will be interpreted according to the objectives. Further, the study will
compute the Pearson's correlation coefficient to establish the relationship between the
independent variables and dependent variable.
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Department of Educational Management, Policy and Curriculum Studies