dc.description.abstract | Secondary Education is one of the major rights for the Kenyan students. Education is a
fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all other human rights. The
study was to investigate factors affecting curriculum implementation in secondary
schools in Kenya: A case study of Nyeri County. The specific objectives being to
determine the role of learners in academic curriculum implementation in secondary
schools in Nyeri County to examine the role of teachers in academic curriculum
implementation in secondary schools in Nyeri County, to establish the influence of
instructional methods on academic curriculum implementation in secondary schools in
Nyeri County and to determine the impact of teaching-learning resources in academic
curriculum implementation in secondary schools in Nyeri County. The study used
descriptive research design to collect data required for quantitative and qualitative
analysis. A total of 220 respondents covering 11 Public secondary schools in Nyeri
County were selected using a census. In each school, cluster was used to identify teacher
participants for the study and ensured that the respondents comprised of a respondent
from the time tabling committee, games department, fees collection, the principal, the
class teacher and learners. A self-administered questionnaire whose validity was based on
construct, content and face validity was then used to collect data. Descriptive analysis
including proportions, percentages, frequency distributions and measures of central
tendency mean and median were then used. In this study, majority of respondents in the
selected secondary schools were class teachers and had taught in these schools for more
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