Influence of school based factors on internal efficiency in provision of secondary education in Seme, Kisumu County, Kenya

Abstract

A study was carried out on the influence of school-based factors on internal efficiency in provision of secondary education in Seme, Kisumu County, Kenya. The objectives of the study included: To determine the relationship between teachers’ academic level of training and internal efficiency in the provision of secondary education in Seme, Kisumu County. To assess how provision of teaching and learning material resources affect internal efficiency in the provision of secondary education in Seme, Kisumu County, and finally to assess how provision of adequate physical facilities affects internal efficiency in provision of secondary education in Seme, Kisumu County. The main purpose of the study was to assess how school based factors affect internal efficiency in the provision of secondary education in Seme, Kisumu County. The design employed in this study was descriptive Survey. The researcher targeted 26 secondary schools in Seme sub-county, Kisumu County. Stratified random sampling was used for this study. The researcher grouped the target population into relatively homogenous sub-groups thereafter; random sampling was applied within the stratum. Simple random sampling ensured that there was no biasness in the study. The findings were analyzed by the use of SPSS and interpreted. A summary of the findings was then done. Some of the school-based factors that affect internal efficiency of schools in the provision of secondary education were found to be teachers’ academic level of training, teachers’ professional level of training, availability, or unavailability of teaching and learning materials, and the status of the school physical facilities. Since the study was carried out only in Seme SubCounty, there is need to do similar studies in other sub counties to establish if the findings would be the same. The researcher recommends that all teachers be trained and they be taken for more in service training to boost on their professionalism. The researcher further recommends that the education stakeholders ensure that teaching/ learning materials and school physical facilities are availed sufficiently in all secondary schools to improve the internal efficiency of secondary schools in the provision of secondary education.