Remedial teaching and learners' academic performance in Yatta division, lower Yatta district, Kenya
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2010-12
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Kampala international international: College of Education, open and distance learning
Abstract
This study was intended to establish whether their exist a relationship between attending Holiday tuitions and academic performance of learners, The study was made effective by way of generating objectives from which the questions from the study arose and these guided the researcher throughout the study. In the review of related literature, all other authors' works or contentions in relation to the problem under study were revisited and all this had to correlate with the objectives of the study. In the research methodology, a descriptive design was employed since the whole study was about explaining a scenario or an event. . A sample of 60 respondents which constituted learners, teachers and the administrators was used. Interview guides and questionnaires were employed in the process of data gathering after which data was analyzed and presented in percentages and frequency distribution tables. The findings from the field revealed that holiday tuition has an impact on the academic performance of learners in schools and that learners are conscious of their parental aspirations and this plays an important role in their motivation towards education. A recommendation was made that there was need for using learners-centered teaching approaches, using meaningful activities in their classrooms, promoting conceptual understanding in all subjects.
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A research report submitted to the college of open Education and distance learning in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the a ward of a degree of bachelor Of education in early childhood and primary education Of Kampala international university
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Education, Remedial teaching, Academic performance, Learners', Yatta district