Factors Influencing Secondary Performance in the Coastal Part of Kenya (Paperback)

Performance of public secondary schools in coastal region by students has been persistently poor in national examinations . The book addresses the factors contributing to the poor performance and to establish the strategies that can be adopted to improve performance in secondary schools.The book addresses school based factors that affect students' performance in secondary schools, teacher based factors that affect them, community based factors and their personal factors that affect performance in Kenya Certificate Secondary Education, and establish the strategies that can be adopted to improve performance in the national examination. The educationist are advised to be keen in addressing the challenges to find a rebirth of performance in academics. Improving on these factors and sensitization of the local community to discard practices which prohibit student's effective learning attitude could improve performance in academics.It is anticipated that the strategies will give curriculum developers new insights into emerging issues on performance and influence the Ministry of Education on policy formulation.