Influence of institutional capacity on students' academic performance in internal examinations in public secondary schools in Ndanai Division Sotik District

Abstract

This study sought to investigate the influence of institutional capacity on students' academic performance in internal examinations in public secondary schools in Ndanai division, Sotik district. The study was guided by the following objectives: to establish the extent to which physical facilities influence students' academic performance in internal examinations in public secondary schools, to assess the level at which human resources influence students' academic performance in internal examinations in public secondary schools, to establish the extent to which school leadership influence students' academic performance in internal examinations in public secondary schools and lastly to investigate the extent to which teaching learning aids influences students' academic performance in internal examinations in public secondary schools. The findings of the study is beneficial to the government, the institutions, education planners, principals, parents, students, community, teacher's service commission, policy makers and future researchers to develop strategies towards improving academic performance in the division. The study was subject to logistics constraints, unpredictable weather conditions and unwillingness of respondents to respond. The study was subject to the following basic assumptions teachers gave unbiased information, sample used represent the target population and public schools under the study have similar curriculum required by KIE and KNEe. The study was delimited to public secondary schools in Ndanai division. The study was based on the theory of Educational Production Function by Erick A. Hanushek (1998). The theory gives the relationship between school and student inputs and a measure of school output. Th~ validity and reliability of the instruments was tested by administering them in a few schools which are part of the actual study sample. The study utilized descriptive survey research design that involved administration of questionnaires to a sample of 248 respondents drawn from a target population of 700. This included 30 teachers, 210 students and 8 principals all from 16 public schools in the division. The data collected was edited, coded and analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequency and percentage counts with the help of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The analyzed data was then presented in form of frequency and percentage distribution tables.