Instructional Materials and academic performance: a case study of Bartabwa Zone Baringo District, Kenya
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Date
2008
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Kampala International University. College of Education, Open and Distance Learning
Abstract
The study is about the role of text books and other learning materials. It was establish the
relationship between instructional materials and academic achievement of the ECD centres and~
how they acquire these materials.
School children, especially those found in the Early Childhood Development (ECD) stages need
to learn through the use of martial. Learning has been known to take place more through seeing
than hearing. Many modem schools have understood this fact and are putting more emphasis on
them.
The study is therefore about the role of teaching and learning materials in facilitating learning. It
will Endeavour to investigate the stress out by both private and public ECDS to the acquisition
and use ofteaching and learning materials.
The research design will be descriptive ~urvey aimed at gathering information from the target
population. The tools used are open and closed ended questionnaires that will help the researcher
source the primary data.
The sample frame will be drawn from the sample population of ECD schools in Bartabwa Zone.
Simple and purposive sampling techniques will be adopted to provide the sample. Purposive
sampling used to select Bartabwa Zone. Simple random sampling will be used to identify 8 ECD
schools out of 12 schools within the zone. This provides a more than 66.7% of the target
population.
Computer packages such as Microsoft Excel to enable presentation in frequency tables, graphs
and pie charts for easy interpretation and understanding by the users.
It was discovered schools should be stocked with enough relevant teaching instructional
materials like textbooks, charts and all education stakeholders to come together to implement
education policies.
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A research report presented to the Institute Of Open And Distance Learning in partial fulfilment of requirement Bachelors Degree of Education in Early Childhood and Primary (ECPE) of Kampala International University
Keywords
Primary Education, Early Childhood, Performance