Effects of strengthening mathematics and sciences programme on secondary school STUDENTS’ performance in mathematics in Ukwala Division, Siaya County, Kenya
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the success of Strengthening
Mathematics And Sciences in Secondary Education project on the secondary
school students’ performance in mathematics in Ukwala Division in Siaya County
with the view of enhancing its implementation in the classroom. The objectives
were to establish students’ attitude toward mathematics; determine whether the
Strengthening Mathematics and Sciences Programme has any effects on teachers’
teaching approaches in mathematics; investigate if Strengthening Mathematics
And Science programme has improved students’ performance in mathematics as
well as finding out factors that hinder effective implementation of Activity
Student Experiment Improvisation-Plan, Do, See Improve approach to teaching.
The study utilized the descriptive survey research design. The study used a census
of 35 headteachers whose schools had undertaken a training programme in
strengthening of mathematics and sciences in the classroom. Simple random
sampling was used to select 60 teachers who had undergone this training. Finally,
five students were randomly sampled per class taught by each of the selected
teacher. This gave a total sample of 300 students. The three instruments were used
namely; Headteachers Interview Guide Mathematics Teachers’ Questionnaire,
and the Mathematics Students’ Questionnaire. The data was analysed using SSPS
Version 20.0 package. The resultant data was presented in terms of frequencies
and percentages. The main study findings revealed that Strengthening
Mathematics and Sciences programme has changed teachers’ attitude positively
towards the subject and has also slightly improved the performance in
mathematics. Some of the areas the study recommends for further study include:
investigation of performance of other science subjects, and other factors outside
classroom that may affect performance of mathematics such as community
attitude and economic factors.
Publisher
Unversity of Nairobi
Description
Thesis Master of Educational Foundations
Collections
- Faculty of Education (FEd) [5964]