| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to investigate influence of skills and knowledge on
the relationship between project scope management and implementation of economic
stimulus projects in public secondary schools in Kisumu County, Kenya. The objectives
were : to determine how project initiation as a project scope management influences the
implementation of ESP projects in public secondary schools; to establish the extent to
which project scope planning influence implementation of ESP projects in public
secondary schools; to assess how project scope definition influence implementation of
ESP projects in public secondary schools; to examine how project scope verification
influences influence the implementation of ESP projects in public secondary schools; to
establish the extent to which project change control influence implementation of ESP
projects in public secondary schools; to establish the moderating influence of project
skills and knowledge on the relationship between project scope management and
implementation of ESP projects in public secondary schools. The study targeted Boards
of Management and Project management Committees of 7 secondary schools that
benefited from the government initiative of ESP projects in Kisumu County. This gave a
target population of 189 respondents from which a sample size of 128 respondents was
drawn. In this study, descriptive survey research design was be used. Both qualitative and
quantitative research approaches were used. The study applied stratified random
sampling and judgmental sampling techniques. The study made use of questionnaires for
primary data collection and Qualitative data was collected through interviews. Validity
and reliability was done by piloting and carrying out the test and retest method.
Reliability test was be done using Pearson product‟s moment correlation co-efficient
formula a co-rrelation coefficient of .075 and 0.72 was obtained for Ministry of
educations and project committee questionnaires respectively this was acceptable to
research since it was above the recommended 0.7.Data was analyzed using Statistical
Package for Social Scientists(SPSS)The findings were; project initiation, project scope
planning, scope definition, scope verification and project change control influenced the
implementation of Economic Stimulus Projects in public secondary schools and also that
there is moderating influence of skills and knowledge on the relationship between scope
management and implementation of Economic Stimulus Projects in public secondary
schools.61.8% of the respondents reported project management techniques were
inadequately applied. Only 35.4% of the respondents admitted having a scope
management plan. Signinificant relationship was established between project initiation,
scope planning, scope definition, scope verification and project change control and
implementation of Economic Stimulus Projects, chi –square tests revealed p<0.05.Most
of the respondents did not have skills and knowledge of project scope management and
this influenced the implementation of the projects as most of the projects experienced
scope creep and are still being implemented long after their stated completion time. The
study recommends focused training of education stakeholders on project scope
management techniques and further research on how scope management can be improved
in educational projects. | en_US |
