Abstract
Policies formed at the school level have tended to interfere with national agenda universal schooling in many countries of the world. A study therefore was carried out on the influence of school-based policies on internal efficiency in public day secondary schools in Nyatike Sub County, Kenya. The study was guided by three objectives; studentsâ grade to grade promotion policy, schools time management policy and school time tabling. The design employed in this study was descriptive survey. The researcher targeted all 52 secondary schools in Nyatike sub-county. Stratified random sampling was used to arrive at the chosen samples for the study. The school-based policies analyzed were found to affect the internal efficiency in education in public secondary schools. The governmentâs policy of no repetition, was found be flowed by all the schools as they had their own studentsâ grade to grade promotion policy based on studentsâ performance in internal examinations. All schools visited were found to be using exams for promotions. Ninety point zero three percent of the students responded that rules put by schools on student grade to grade affects their wellbeing and stay in school. Sixty one point five three percent of the students sampled believed student grade to grade policy has an impact on repetition of students. On time management policy, a majority of the schools did not have strategic plans to guide the operations in schools. However, the schools had timetables as required by the ministry of education. No effort was put in place to assist weak students in bettering in their academics to meet the set school targets for promotion. In conclusion the internal school policies on grade to grade promotion have affected greatly the internal efficiency in education in Nyatike sub-county. The inefficiency index of 1.3 was found. There is poor implantation of time management policy and there is a lot of waste of time in the afternoons in the sub-county. It is recommended that close monitoring be done by the sub-county director of education office on implementation of no student repetition policy.
Highlights
Background to the StudyEducation remains a single most important investment that can propel countries to achieve or hasten their economic growth [1]
The researcher set out to establish the relationship between the school factors and the aspects of internal efficiency in mixed public secondary schools in Nyatike Sub County
The first objective of the study was to examine the influence of the policy of student grade to grade promotion on internal efficiency in mixed public secondary schools in Nyatike sub-county
Summary
Education remains a single most important investment that can propel countries to achieve or hasten their economic growth [1]. Internal efficiency is defined as the amount of learning achieved during the school age attendance, compared to the resources availed to support education [3] It measures the performance of the education system as indicated by students successfully transiting from one grade or level to another through the education system without wastage. The student grade to grade promotion policies within the schools, teaching and learning resources available, school time management policy, and school physical infrastructure can have great bearing on internal efficiency in the education system. The dropout rate is reported to be at 29 percent in Muhuru division, 26 percent in Kaler division, 21 percent in Kachola division, 19 percent in Nyatike division and 18 percent in Karungu division It is against this background that a research into school factors especially the school based policies influencing internal efficiency were done. Internal efficiency in mixed public secondary schools in Nyatike Sub County (ii) To establish the influence of schools’ time management policy on the internal efficiency in mixed public secondary schools (iii) To examine the influence of the implementation of teaching time table policy on the internal efficiency in mixed secondary schools
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