Teacher quality and student performance of selected private secondary schools in Wadajir district Mogadishu, Somalia

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2011-09
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Kampala International University, College of Education, Open & Distance Learning
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The study is about teacher Quality and students’ performance of selected private secondary schools in Wadajir district in Mogadishu, Somalia. The study examined the effectiveness of the teacher quality and student performance. The specific objectives of the study were to determine the profile of the respondents in terms of~ gender, age, academic qualifications, and work experience, to evaluate the teacher quality on student performance in terms of his/her qualifications, to examine the teacher quality on student performance in terms of teacher experience, to examine teacher quality on student performance in terms of teacher practice. The study used the cross sectional design together with the descriptive research techniques on a population of selected private secondary schools. The study used a questionnaire for data collection. The data collected was analyzed using SPSS by using tabulation, frequencies, mean, and percentage method analyses. The study found out that teacher quality has a significance relationship with student performance. The study concluded that teacher quality is important in raising student performance which means that the teacher quality affects to the student performance. Also, Teachers employed according to their qualifications, meaning that qualified teacher has better performance about the relevant subject than less qualified teachers. Teachers’ years of teaching are important in raising student performance, and a teacher who has experience interacts with the students and pay attention to them in the class. The study recommended that the teachers need to acquire more training skills for teaching quality to overcome the discrepancies in the use of teacher quality. However, teachers should be properly trained. Therefore, it is recommended to revise the existing teachers training programs with respect to admission criteria, curriculum, teaching practice.
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Presented to the School of Postgraduate Studies and Research Kampala International University Kampala, Uganda in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Education in Educational Management and Administration
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Teacher quality, Student performance, Private secondary schools, Wadajir district Mogadishu, Somalia
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