Social factors and students’ educational aspirations in selected secondary schools of East-Karachuonyo Division, Kenya
| dc.contributor.author | Odera, Stanley Okoth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-30T09:08:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-07-30T09:08:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-08 | |
| dc.description | A Thesis Report Presented to the College of Higher Degrees and Research Kampala International University Kampala, Uganda in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the award of a Degree of Master of Educational Management and Administration of Kampala International University | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The study was about social factors and students educational aspirations in selected secondary schools in East Karachuonyo Division, Kenya. The purpose of the study intended to validate social pathology theory/ goal setting theory/needs theory and expectancy theory upon which it was based, filled the gaps identified during literature review, tested the hypothesis of no significant relationships between social factors and educational aspirations. The study was guided by the following objectives: To determine the profile of the respondents as to age, gender and class, to determine the level of social factors among students in selected secondary schools, to determine the level of students educational aspiration in selected secondary schools and to determine if there is a significant relationship between the level of social factors and students educational aspirations in East Karachuonyo Division, Kenya. A sample of 213 students from 5 secondary schools was used. A descriptive survey design and descriptive correlation design was adopted. The objective on profile of the respondents was analyzed using frequency and percentage distribution while the objectives to determine level of social factors and students educational aspiration were analyzed using means. The objective to determine if there is a significant relationship between social factors and students’ educational aspiration was analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient. The findings on the level of social factors turned out low with an average index of 2.32, while the findings on the level of educational aspirations turned out high with a mean of 3.01. On correlation there, was no significant relationship since the sig. or P values of social factors was greater than the level of significant of 0.05. This led to the acceptance of null hypothesis. The study recommended that the ministry of education should provide appropriate educational resources, train and retrain enough teaching staff, enhance co-curricular activities, enhance career guidance programmes in schools. It recommended the parents, should regularly visit schools to check on performance vi and discipline. The students should be adequately tested to ascertain their achievement levels before setting higher educational aspirations | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12306/12440 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | College of Education, Open & Distance Learning | en_US |
| dc.subject | Social factors | en_US |
| dc.subject | Students’ educational aspirations | en_US |
| dc.subject | East-Karachuonyo Division, Kenya | en_US |
| dc.title | Social factors and students’ educational aspirations in selected secondary schools of East-Karachuonyo Division, Kenya | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |