Extensiveness of Teachers Motivation Strategies in Enhancing Form Four Students’ Academic Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Namtumbo District – Tanzania (Published)
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent of teachers’ motivation strategy in enhancing form four students’ academic performance in public secondary schools in Namtumbo district – Tanzania. The study was guided by the theory of Transformation Supervision Theory developed by Bass, (1985). Question which guides the study is to what extent does teachers’ motivation strategies enhance students’ academic performance in public secondary schools in Namtumbo District? The study used convergent design under a mixed method approaches (Quantitative and Qualitative approaches). Target population of the study were 948, probability and non-probability sampling were used to get sample size of 135 respondents. The instruments for data collection were questionnaires for teachers, students, and academic masters/mistresses and interview-guide for heads of schools and WEOs. The validity of the instruments determined through content validity by expert in education from Mwenge Catholic University and face validity were viewed by a researcher. The reliability of the instruments was determined by using Cronbach Alpha which measures the consistency of the items and the results were r= 0.775 for students, r=0.757for teachers and r=0.943 for academic masters/mistresses. Qualitative data was established through triangulation. The quantitative data was analysed into frequencies, percentages, tables, and mean scores by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 22. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Hypothesis tested by using Pearson correlation at significance level of 0.05. The study found that teachers’ were not much motivated by heads of schools due to lack of trainings, in-service training, workshops and seminars shortage of teaching and learning materials, shortage of facilities like laboratories and libraries. Study concluded that due to lack of implementation of motivation strategies teachers’ reduced the morale of teaching and learning process in enhancing students’ academic performance. The study recommended that, heads of schools find means of motivating teachers for the purpose of improving the performances in National examinations. The government should provide training to teachers, teaching and learning resources and facilities in schools.
Mbawala F.A., Siamoo P., Okendo E.O. (2022) Extensiveness of Teachers Motivation Strategies in Enhancing Form Four Students’ Academic Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Namtumbo District – Tanzania, International Journal of Education, Learning and Development, Vol. 10, No.11, pp.53-72
Keywords: Public Secondary Schools, Strategies., Students’ Academic Performance
The Strategies Put In Place by Selected Private Universities in Kenya to Address the Issues of Financial Sustainability (Published)
Private universities have a great responsibility of managing financial sustainability and hence the need to explore different strategies that would enhance their financial sustainability. Kenya Vision 2030 requires institutions to develop strategies that will help in achieving its goals. Therefore, this paper explores the strategies administrators in private universities use to manage financial stability. Three major strategies were adopted by selected private universities to enhance their financial sustainability. These strategies include students’ recruitment strategies, internal and external funding strategies and program development, review and diversification. Ludwig Von Bertalanffy’s General System Theory (GST) originally developed in the 1940’s – which later came to be known as System Theory – was the conceptual framework that guided this study. Qualitative grounded theory design was used for collecting, analyzing, interpreting and reporting data. An interview guide was used to collect data for the two research questions that guided the study. Data was collected using self-developed interview schedule, and were digitally recorded and transcribed. The data was then organized manually and analyzed qualitatively through use of codes and formation of categories which eventually developed broader and tentative themes and patterns that brought meaning out of the information collected. Twenty respondents of this study were chosen purposefully from four out of the five universities in Kenya founded as theological colleges and had been chartered as private universities at the time of the study. Triangulation was used for data collection to increase the trustworthiness of the findings. The findings of this study indicate that the strategies that were put in place were not yielding sufficient income because of the many internal and external challenges being faced by these universities. Therefore this study recommends ways of developing, reviewing and diversifying revenue streams (input activities) that will generate adequate income to overcome the challenges in the system that are major impediments to implementation of activities (output) that would lead to establishment of a financial sustainable university.
Keywords: Financial Sustainability, Marketing, Private University, Program development, Strategies., Student Recruitment, review and diversification
Strategies for Empowering Individuals for Self-employment through Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Nigeria. (Published)
The study was carried out to determine the strategies that can be employed to empower individuals for self-employment through Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Nigeria. The study adopted a survey research design. Three research questions were formulated to guide the study. The population was made up of 54 technical teachers and 73 technical instructors in the technical colleges and skill acquisition centres in the zones covered by the study. The instrument was face-validated by five TVET experts in University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Cronbach Alpha was used to establish the reliability and a reliability coefficient of 0.81 was obtained. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyse the data collected. The strategies determined are agreed upon as empowerment strategies as well as the training facilities and challenges of TVET in empowering individuals for self-employment. It was recommended that public/private partnership should be encouraged in the funding and management of TVET to empower individuals for self-employment.
Keywords: Empowerment, Self-employment, Strategies., Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET).