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- ItemThe Role of School Management Committee and Pupils' Performance in Government Primary Schools in RuhiJa Town Council Rubanda District.(Kabale University, 2023)Participation of School Management Committee members in meetings was one of the ways through which pieces of advice would be provided to the school stakeholders including teachers, learners, head teachers, casual labourers all aimed at shooting in a direction of uplifting the pupils' academic performance (Lamb, 2007). The study was conducted aimed to investigating the role of school management committee on pupils' performance in primary schools in Ruhija Town Council Rubanda District. It adopted cross-sectional survey design alongside qualitative and qualitative paradigms. Questionnaires and interview guides were used to collect data for the study. Sample Size considered only 222 respondents. The objectives included; establishing the impact of advisory role towards pupils' performance; examining the effect of supervisory role on pupils' performance and finally, ascertaining the contribution of empowerment role on pupils' performance in primary schools. The major findings included; advising through meetings which had 60(27%) ofrespondents, supervision involving cooperation towards pupils' performance that bad 3.49 mean score and the standard deviation of 0.839; and School Management Committee to participate in leading to reduced number of children in school that had 35% of the respondents. The study concluded mentioning the role of school management committee on pupils' performance in primary schools in Ruhija Town Council Rubanda District not to have been worth due to a number of loopholes detected in members of the school management committee of certain schools which included but not limited to; development of a culture of not trusting the employees that they could improve academic standards, school management committees disrespecting teachers leading to reduced enrollment of the school and failure of school management committees to understand the responsibilities of each employee in school. Thus, there was need for more research about the role played by the cohort mentioned as to improve on pupils' academic performance. The recommendations included; the school management committee through meetings with members of teaching staff and their head teachers should advise them properly and allow them to execute their duties as expected in order to alleviate levels of understanding to children that lead to excellent academic performance; more research should be carried out to allow the school management committees not to dwell on advising head teachers only on matters of children's performance by suggesting strategies but also the entire stakeholders whose effort can promote academic performance of children in primary schools; need to formulate academic committees advised by the members of school management committee on how to perform through motivational element aiming at doing well academically to promote the names of the school; it is imperative that the schools get in touch with the members of the school management committees who have some formal education to quickly understand the value of education and how plans for developments of certain sectors in school especially academic performance could be made; need to foster supervision that involves cooperation towards pupils 'performance by all stakeholders; appointing an active team that can do supervision to let children advance academically is healthy.
- ItemThe Impact of Internet on Teaching and Learning of Geography in Secondary Schools in Kabale Municipality.(Kabale University, 2023) Kato BrianThis research intended to examine the contribution of internet in teaching and learning of geography in Kabale Municipality. It was guided by objectives which were to which were to examine the impact of internet use on teaching and learning in secondary schools in Kabale Municipality, to examine teachers’ and students’ perception on the use of internet in teaching and learning in secondary schools in Kabale Municipality and to identify the challenges associated with the use of internet in in secondary schools in Kabale Municipality. The study adopted a cross sectional survey design and a sample size of 326 respondents was used. Simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used in selecting respondents. Data collection was done using questionnaires and interview guide. Findings of this study established that the intensive use of internet and the process-oriented learning environment supported the development of students’ expertise in internet and enhanced students’ in critical thinking skills, teacher and student intervention and increase students’ learning motivation. Furthermore, internet can offer opportunities to teachers for obtaining educational resources from the internet to enrich course content. The results indicated that majority of teachers involved students in using computers every day. The study established that an increasing number of teachers are embracing integration of internet in teaching and learning geography. However, computers were not adequate for full integration of internet in teaching and learning. This signified low use of these hardware tools. This study established that the major barriers preventing more successful integration of internet in teaching and learning in secondary schools were; lack of internet skills, availability of insufficient number of computers and lack of motivation and confidence. Furthermore, inappropriate teacher training as a major barrier in the integration of internet in teaching and learning. The study recommended that teachers should be given sufficient training on how to use internet in teaching and learning processes to acquire the requisite knowledge and skills in integrating the technology in classrooms. Teachers should also be provided with adequate technological resources, technical support and administrative support to encourage them successfully use internet in teaching and learning. Students should be involved in using internet in learning activities such as doing assignments and searching the internet for learning resources because it is believed that internet can enhance teacher and student interaction and also tends to increase students learning motivations.
- ItemThe Effects of Active Teaching and Learning Methods on The Pupils' Academic Performance in Four Selected Primary Schools in Bugamba Sub-County in Rwampara District.(Kabale University, 2022) Ampurire, MotionThe study examined effects of active teaching and learning methods on the pupils' academic performance in four selected primary schools of Bugamba sub county Rwampara district following the study objective which included to find out factors that influence active teaching and learning methods on the pupils' academic performance in primary schools of Bugamba sub county Rwampara district, to find out whether teachers apply or use active teaching and learning methods in primary schools of Bugamba sub county Rwampara district and to establish a relationship between active teaching learning methods and pupils' academic performance in primary schools of Bugamba sub county Rwampara district. There was critical review of the issues that have explored and studied both theoretically and empirically in the existing literature on active teaching as an independent variable and pupils' academic performance as the dependent variable and the methods of data collection were put into action. The research used both qualitative and quantitaive methods of data collection and analysis. The research used a sample size of 80 respondents using sample random sampling techniques in collecting and analyzing data and was used to provide equal chances to the sample size. Purposive sampling was also used to collect data from respondents that participated in the study. Findings of the study were obtained from the field, interpreting the results and analyzed data based on the specific objectives of the study and male respondents dominated in the study with 63% and majority of them were single having attained primary level of education with 40% of the respondents. Chapter five portrayed the summary of findings, recommendations were made and there was a need to invite more teachers and orient them to use active teaching methods in primary schools and show them that active teaching should be used in all classes of primary schools, the school administration needs to have frequent meeting with the subject teachers and find out the solutions to the problems faced by them with the view of solving them while using active teaching and the school administration also needs to give the subject teachers first priority by getting good trained and committed teachers and also show them the best teaching approaches and their importance of the subject where active teaching method can be used more effectively.
- ItemIndiscpline Cases on Learner's Academic Performance in Kashongi Sub-County, Kiruhura District.(Kabale University, 2022) Nimusiima, Yonabthe aim of the study was to assess the relationship between indiscipline cases on learners' academic performance among primary schools in Kashongi sub county. The research study was guided by the following objectives; to analyze the causes of indiscipline cases in primary schools in Kashongi sub county, to assess the relationship between performance among primary schools in Kashongi sub-county, to find out the Possible strategies for improving discipline in schools among primary schools in Kashongi sub-county. The research was conducted using a survey research design. Both qualitative and quantitative data was used in order to enable the researcher to obtain necessary data on variables under study. Questionnaires was also used on respondents, and interviews together with focus groups applied. The findings reveal that among the challenges facing teachers in dealing with pupils' indiscipline were; inadequate support from parents and other stakeholders, ineffective guidance and counseling, withdrawal of corporal punishment, large number of pupils in a classroom, and that most schools are preoccupied with improving the mean scores. The teachers also indicated that they feared of being taken to court and interdiction by their employer.The recommendations are: That research regarding possible methods of advancing greater learner participation in school discipline policy be conducted with an intention of investigating the means and ways through which learners could be utilized to preserve discipline in the schools. That an in-depth study concerning corporal punishment /in the department of Education and Culture needs to be conducted
- ItemChallenges Faced By Literature Teachers In Rwahi-Rwentobo Town Council Ntungamo District.(Kabale University, 2021) Kokunda, RosemaryThe study was about the challenges facing teachers teaching literature in selected secondary schools in Ntungamo district. The study was guided by three objectives which were: to find out the challenges facing teachers teaching literature in selected secondary schools in Ntungamo district. to find out the methods of teaching literature in selected secondary schools in Ntungamo district, to propose possible solutions to the challenges faced by literature teachers in selected schools of Ntungamo district. A total sample of 80 respondents were considered for the study. This included headteacher, teachers and students. The researcher used both simple random and purposive sampling techniques in identifying the study sample population. The methods that were used in data collection included questionnaires, observation, and interview. Data collected was edited, coded, entered into computer and analyzed with excel, a Microsoft statistical package, the results were presented in tables. Basing on results from the study, According to the findings 100% of the respondents agreed that there are methods of teaching literature in selected secondary and these include teacher-centered method, student centered method , teacher-¬student interactive method. From objective two above, the finding indicated that there are several challenges facing teachers teaching literature in selected secondary schools and these included teachers turn over forces schools to devote attention, frequent transfer of teachers may lead to both poor performance and dropout, heavy number in classes is not favorable for teachers c to attended every student which leads to poor performance, no sufficient numbers of graduates produced in specific teaching fields. The study finding further indicated that there are several appropriate solutions to the challenges of teaching literature in secondary schools as none of the study respondents was able to disagree with the same statement. The study on further findings established the following solutions to the challenges of teaching literature in secondary schools and these included teacher should consider a method basing on the level he/she is going to teach as an important tool for teaching literature, needs to be conversant with various teaching strategies which may be applied to subjects at different class , teachers should teach lesson in line with the selected method, teacher should also be considered before the selection of any method.