| dc.description.abstract | This study was to establish the influence of learning environment of infrastructural projects
on pupils‟ academic performance in public Primary schools in Mukuru slum. The study was
guided by the following objectives: To examine the state of the physical buildings on pupils‟
academic performance in primary schools in Mukuru slum, To establish the influence of
classroom size of pupils‟ academic performance in primary schools in Mukuru slum, To
investigate the influence of teacher job motivation on pupils‟ academic performance in
primary schools in Mukuru slum, and to determine the influence of school location on pupils‟
academic performance in primary schools in Mukuru slum. Descriptive survey design was
used for the project. The target population consisted of 79 respondents, head teachers and
teachers in the primary schools in Mukuru Slum. The sample size was a total of 68 drawn
from the target population using the Krejcie and Morgan‟s table and simple random sampling
technique. Questionnaires were used as instruments for data collection. Primary data from the
field was edited first. Coding was then done to translate question responses into specific
categories. Coding organized and reduced data into manageable summaries. Quantitative data
collected was analyzed by descriptive statistics while content analysis techniques were used
to analyze qualitative data. Descriptive statistics such as means, standard deviation,
frequencies and percentages was used to describe the data. The analyzed data was then
presented in the form of tables. On the influence of state of physical building on pupil‟s
academic performance, the respondents 33.3% indicated that there was construction being
undertaken in there schools with 66.7% indicating that no construction or expansion to
rehabilitate classrooms was happening. The respondents strongly agree that state of physical
buildings strongly influences pupil academic performance to a great extent with a mean of
1.26 and standard deviation of 0.07. In terms of how classroom size influences academic
performance in public primary schools in Mukuru, the study established that classroom size
influences pupils‟ academic performance to a great extent with a mean of 1.93 and standard
deviation of 0.46. In investigating the influence of teacher motivation on pupils‟ academic
performance in public primary schools in Mukuru slum, the study found that teacher
motivation does influence academic performance to a large extent with a mean of 1.24 and
standard deviation of 0.01. In studying the influence of school location on pupils‟ academic
performance, the study found that school location influences the pupils‟ academic
performance in public primary schools in Mukuru slum. In conclusion the study found that all
the independent variables of the study which are state of physical buildings, classroom size,
teacher job motivation and school location influence pupils‟ academic performance in public
primary schools in Mukuru slum | en_US |
