With the core business of the school being instruction, the principals’ monitoring of instructional assessment is necessary in enhancing teaching and learning processes and outcome in schools. Despite measures being in place, teaching and learning outcome has remained consistently low, especially in Kajiado County. The objective of this study is to assess the influence of principals’ monitoring of instructional assessments on teaching and learning outcome. The study was guided by the result-based management theory. The study employed a descriptive survey design. This study population of study comprised 727 respondents in all the 9 public secondary schools in Kajiado. These respondents included 122 teachers, 594 students and 9 principals. Out of these, 342 respondents were sampled and they were comprised of 9 principals, 97 teachers and 201 students. Proportionate sampling was used to draw a sample of 97 teachers’ and 201 students per school. Further, simple random sampling was used ...

Dismantling Inequity and Exclusion in the Education Sector in Kenya Wanjiru Kariuki Kariuki32@yahoo.com The state has an obligation to respect, protect and fulfill the rights of its citizens. Using the Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA), this paper critically reviews the ways in which education interventions in Kenya facilitate the right to education. It discusses four education interventions in Kenya, namely, policy reforms, free/subsidized education programs, privatepublic partnerships, and curriculum reforms. The paradox revealed in this paper is that the State has practices that can be acknowledged as exemplars of equity and inclusion, while at the same time it has other practices that reinforce inequity and exclusion.

School climate and teacher performance are critical factors in any learning institution that seeks to have competitive edge. Teachers from Kitui County have raised concern over unfavourable school climate that affects their performance. Despite the fact that some studies on school climate have been carried out in Kenya none of them has explored exhaustively on poor teacher performance. Hence there was need to carry out this study. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of availability of teaching and learning resources on teacher performance in public secondary schools in Kitui county. this study employed mixed methods approach and descriptive survey research design to reveal and measure the opinion of teachers and the indicators of school climate and was anchored on three motivational theories namely: McGregor theory x and Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs and Hertzberg’s two factor theory. The study targeted 400 public secondary schools and 2417 teachers from Kitui count...

The central problem of this study was that despite the critical role played by the principal in secondary school management, students’ academic performance has persistently been poor. Factors leading to this dismal performance have not been adequately investigated and well understood, hence hindering national development in the country. To this end, the purpose of this study was to determine the impact of the leadership behavior of the Principal on the Students’ academic performance in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) in selected secondary schools in Manga Division, Nyamira District. The study was conducted in eleven secondary schools within Manga Division, Nyamira District. Eleven Principals and 61 teachers from these sample schools were used in the study. The interest for the researcher to choose and study these schools was strongly prompted by their continued poor performance in KCSE. Data was collected using questionnaires and interview schedules. The study used d...