| dc.description.abstract | The performance in Kenyan Certificate of Primary education
(KCPE) is very crucial in determining the learner's final grade in
Kenya Certificate of Secondary the learners get admitted to, they
can improve, maintain or drop. It is known that the individual's
life structure is shaped by three types of external events namely,
the social cultural environment, the role they play and the
relationships they have and opportunities and constraints that
enable them express and develop their personality. The main
purpose of the study was to analyze entry behaviour and final
performance and one way Anova to find out whether the true
relationship existed. The specific objectives of the study were to
analyze the relationship between entry marks and final grade, to
verify whether entry marks impacted on the final performance, to
test the null hypothesis that the entry marks had a direct impact
on KCSE and to test the null hypothesis that the 15 schools
selected had differences in their means at 1% and 5% significance
levels. The study was carried out in Nyamira district public
secondary schools in Nyamjra County which are National,
provincial and district. The data used in this study comprised of
48 schools of which a sample of 15 schools was .used to select a
sample of the accessible schools. A sample of 572 students of
which .'348 were girls and 224 were boys was analyzed. Given the
reliability of regression analysis and one way Anova, the result
would be used to alert the management, stakeholders and parents
the level of learners and the strategies needs to achieve desirable
results. Furthermore, it will let educators know the existing
situation and suggest away forward to improve the situation. | en_US |
