Factors Affecting Implementation Of Academic Curriculum In Public Secondary Schools In Kenya: A Case Of Public Schools In Nyeri County

Abstract

Secondary Education is one of the major rights for the Kenyan students. Education is a fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all other human rights. The study was to investigate factors affecting curriculum implementation in secondary schools in Kenya: A case study of Nyeri County. The specific objectives being to determine the role of learners in academic curriculum implementation in secondary schools in Nyeri County to examine the role of teachers in academic curriculum implementation in secondary schools in Nyeri County, to establish the influence of instructional methods on academic curriculum implementation in secondary schools in Nyeri County and to determine the impact of teaching-learning resources in academic curriculum implementation in secondary schools in Nyeri County. The study used descriptive research design to collect data required for quantitative and qualitative analysis. A total of 220 respondents covering 11 Public secondary schools in Nyeri County were selected using a census. In each school, cluster was used to identify teacher participants for the study and ensured that the respondents comprised of a respondent from the time tabling committee, games department, fees collection, the principal, the class teacher and learners. A self-administered questionnaire whose validity was based on construct, content and face validity was then used to collect data. Descriptive analysis including proportions, percentages, frequency distributions and measures of central tendency mean and median were then used. In this study, majority of respondents in the selected secondary schools were class teachers and had taught in these schools for more than a yea