| dc.description.abstract | Decline in student discipline has become one of the major challenges facing the
education sector as the government tries to widen the access to basic education.
Any education system has the responsibility of nurturing the growth of the whole
person through integrated development of physical, intellectual, moral and
spiritual attributes and abilities. The purpose of this study was to investigate the
influence of Board of BOM management practices on students’ discipline in
public secondary schools in Kibwezi. The study was therefore specifically
seeking to establish the extent to which BOM involvement of the students’
decision making in public Secondary schools; Determine the influence of BOM
on rewarding of disciplined students and the effect it has on the student discipline;
The study also highlighted the influence of Board of management provided
motivational talks on student discipline in public secondary schools. And also the
study investigated the influence of BOM provided peer counseling facilities and
its effect on public on public secondary schools in Kibwezi. The study was based
on the health belief model and adopted descriptive survey research design. The
study targeted the 32 public secondary schools within the 8 zones in the region.
Also targeted 192 BOM members, 611 teachers and student leaders. Piloting was
done on three secondary school. Pearsons product moment correlation gave a
reliability of 0.7 for questionnaires and validity was ensured through discussion
with experts. The stratified sampling technique was used to select schools to
participate into educational zones. 30% of the population was used to select the
respondents from the entire sub-county. Simple random sampling was then used
to select respondent to reduce biasness. Data was analyzed using descriptive
statistics through percentages and counts and Pearson’s correlations then
presented in graphs and tables. The findings showed that the student in most of
the secondary schools are not allowed to make decisions on issues affecting their
disciplined students in the secondary schools is not right which influences
students discipline negatively; The motivational talks programs are not well
provided in the secondary schools which has a negative influence on the student
discipline; peer counseling facilities are partially provided which has a negative
influence in students discipline in secondary schools. | en_US |
