Contribution of constituency development fund to students' access to secondary school education in Githunguri, Kiambu County, Kenya.
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2015-02-06
Authors
Muthoni, Rukwaro
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Abstract
Educational access is the ability to provide all students with appropriate educational institutions,
materials and personnel. All students must have access to and complete a full course of
schooling and eliminate social and economic barriers and gender disparity. This creates the need
to expand schools, establish new schools and provide bursaries to increase enrolments and
improve transition, retention and completion rates. The purpose of this study will be to establish
the influence of COF on access to secondary education in Githunguri Sub-County. The
Objectives of the study will include: to examine the effects of expansion of schools through the
COF on students 'access to secondary school education; to determine the effects of
establishment of secondary schools through COF on students' enrolment to secondary education;
to establish how the provision of bursaries through the COF affects the transition rates in
secondary education; to examine how the provision of bursaries to students through the COF
affects completion rates in secondary education; and to seek ways for which COF should be
properly managed to increase the sustainability of the school projects funded by COF. This study
will use descriptive survey design to determine the relationship between the independent and
dependent variables in a population. The target population for the study will be all the thirtythree
(33) secondary schools in Githunguri Sub-County. The targeted respondents will be all the
33 principals, 345 teachers and 3,0] 5 students in secondary schools in Githunguri Sub-County.
Because of the big population, only 20 schools will be randomly sampled. Purposive sampling
will be used to select a proportional number of all categories of schools; 8 mixed, 7 boys' and 5
girls' schools will be selected. For this study purposive sampling will be used to sample class
teachers and students in forms three and four. The principal, all the class teachers, 8 students in
form four and 8 students in form three from each school will participate in the study translating
to 20 principals, 40 teachers and 320 students. This gives a sample size of 380 respondents.
Questionnaires which consist of both open and closed ended questions will be used to get the
required information from the teachers and students. Interview schedules will be also
administered to the principals. A pilot study will be carried out in a school in the neighbouring
district whereby the research instrument will be administered twice with a one week lapse
between the first and second tests. The results of the two tests will be compared and a correlation
coefficient computed using the Pearson product moment of correlation. Quantitative data will be
analyzed using descriptive statistics such as measures of central tendency including the mean,
the median and the mode occurrence of the different variables with the aid of SPSS. Qualitative
data will be arranged thematically and discussed. The data will be then presented through tabular
representations of frequency tables for each variable, calculation of fractions and percentage of
each variable. Graphical methods will be used to show frequency distributions by using bar
graphs, pie-charts and histograms.
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