| dc.description.abstract | The study was on institutional factors influencing students’ performance in Kenya
Certificate of Secondary education (KCSE) in mixed public secondary schools in
Mbooni East SubCounty Makueni County, Kenya. Students’ performance in KSCE has
been influenced by various factors which include inadequate teachers, inadequate
teaching and learning resources, inadequate physical facilities and students’
characteristics. The study was guided by the following objectives; to access the extent
to which teachers’ characteristics, students’ characteristics, adequacy of physical
resources and adequacy of teaching and learning resources influence students’
performance. The study was premised on Human capital theory developed by Adam
Smith in the 18th century and John Stuart Mill in the 19th. which holds that the wellbeing
of a society is a function of the knowledge and skills of individuals. The study
used descriptive survey design because it administered questionnaires and observation
check list to collect data. The targeted population was 35 mixed secondary schools
consisting of 35 principals, 35 director of studies and 1823 form three students. Simple
random sampling was used to select 11(30%) mixed schools out of 35 mixed schools,
11 principals and 11 directors of studies were purposively selected. There were about
1823 form three students in the 35 mixed secondary schools where 88(5%) were
randomly selectedcomprising of four boys and fourgirls to participate in the study.The
study used Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) IBM version 20 to analyze
data. The analyzed data was then presented through tabular representation of
frequency tables, pie charts and bar graphs.The major findings showsthat most schools
in the study locale had inadequate trained teachers as revealed by 90.9% of the
principals and directors of studies. Majority (72.8%) of the students revealed that
physical resources were inadequate while (80.5%) of the students indicated that
teaching and learning resources were inadequate, with most public mixed secondary
schools lacking the critical human and instructional resources thereby leading to poor
performance in KCSE which hindered students’ transition to tertiary and University
collages. The study made recommendations that should be put in place in order to
improve students’ performance in the sub county that, the devolved government should
provide adequate teaching and learning resources, employ more teachers to reduce
teacher to student ratio and carry out resource rationalization assessment in different
categories of schools to ensure equitable distribution of relevant and adequate
infrastructure | en_US |
