MKSU Doctoral Theses
Recent Submissions
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PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL PRACTICES AS DETERMINANTS OF TEACHER PRODUCTIVITY IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN MAKUENI COUNTY, KENYA
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN e-LEARNING AND KISWAHILI LANGUAGE STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN SELECTED UNIVERSITIES IN KENYA
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ASSESSING THE USE OF TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS TO PROMOTE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING IN UPPER PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN KITUI COUNTY
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GENDER IDEOLOGIES AND POWER RELATIONS IN EKEGUSII PROVERBS
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COMPETENCY BASED CURRICULUM AND CREATIVITY LEARNING OUTCOMES AMONG GRADE FOUR PUPILS IN MAKUENI COUNTY, KENYA
(MksU Press, 2023-02)21st century is an era of technological advancement, unpredictability and unfamiliar demands. Consequently, it is vital that creativity remains at the heart of learning in order to foster life-long skills such as idea ... -
A SOCIAL SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF GENDER REPRESENTATION IN SELECTED KENYAN SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS
(MksU Press, 2023)The present study is a social semiotic analysis of gender representation in selected Kenyan secondary school English textbooks. Textbooks are a powerful instrument for creating social identities. As a result, how male ... -
PORTER’S GENERIC COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES, ALLIANCE PARTNERSHIPS AND PERFORMANCE OF MOBILE TELEPHONE NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDERS IN KENYA
(MksU Press, 2023-03)Past studies on the relationship between Porter’s generic strategies and firm performance in the presence of alliance partnerships continue being an unresolved predicament with most studies resulting to diverse outcome. ... -
EFFECTS OF MASTERY LEARNING STRATEGY ON MATHEMATICAL COMPETENCE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MACHAKOS COUNTY, KENYA
(MksU Press, 2023)Despite the fact that Mathematics is considered as a vital subject that supports the development of critical and logical thinking., majority of students across the world dislike mathematics and stay away from many careers ... -
EFFECTS OF ISO 9001:2015 QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION ON POST EXAMINATION SERVICE DELIVERY IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN KENYA
(MksU Press, 2023)The quality of education offered by public universities in Kenya has on several occasions been questioned particularly in as far as the integrity of examinations is concerned. Several complaints relating to missing marks, ... -
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS TEACHING APPROACH AND LEARNING OUTCOMES IN BIOLOGY IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN MAKUENI COUNTY, KENYA
(MksU Press, 2023-03)Biology makes students aware of the nature of their daily life, and the care and protection of the environment. This study looked at the relationship between Science Process Skills Teaching Approach and learning outcomes ... -
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN MACHAKOS COUNTY, KENYA
(Machakos University Press, 2022-04)Academic performance trend in K.C.S.E. in Machakos County has been on a declining trend in the recent past , hence the need for the study. The aim of the study was to establish the influence of Human Resource Management ... -
EFFECTS OF INQUIRY-BASED SCIENCE TEACHING APPROACH ON LEARNING OUTCOMES OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PHYSICS STUDENTS IN KITUI COUNTY, KENYA
(Machakos University Press, 2021-11)The present study was inspired by the consistent posting of dismal performance in Physics in the Kenya as depicted in the annual KNEC report on KCSE performance for the duration 2014-2019. The same trend was observed for ... -
ACADEMIC SELF-EFFICACY, STRESS AND COPING STRATEGIES AS PREDICTORS OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG STUDENTS IN PUBLIC PRIMARY TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES IN CENTRAL REGION, KENYA
(Machakos University Press, 2022-01)Poor performance has been reported in Kenya's Public Primary Teacher Training Colleges from 2014 onwards. The goal of this study was to see if there was a link between students' Academic Self-efficacy, Stress and coping ... -
APPROPRIATENESS OF MNEMONIC TECHNIQUES ON LEARNING OUTCOMES IN PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN MACHAKOS SUB-COUNTY, KENYA
(Machakos University Press, 2020)Mnemonic techniques are memory strategies that help learners recall large pieces of information. They link new information to prior knowledge through the use of visual and acoustic cues. They have been proven effective ... -
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES, STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN KENYA
(Machakos University Press, 2020-07)of Directors are not only expected to monitor a company management; they are also held responsible for an organization’s failure to conform to rules and regulations or failure to attain organizational performance goals. ... -
COMPETENCE BASED EDUCATION AND TRAINING AND EMPLOYABILITY OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED LEARNERS IN TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING INSTITUTIONS IN KENYA
(2019-10)Curriculum is the vehicle through which a nation empowers her people with the essential knowledge and skills, attitudes and values that allow them to be empowered for individual and general development. Therefore, the ... -
Multiplicativity of the Generating Functions for the Refined Node Polynomials on Toric Surfaces
(SISSA, 2016)The advent of tropical enumerative geometry [Mik05, BM07, FM10], led to emergence of combinatorial strategies for tackling enumerative problems on complex algebraic varieties. In this thesis, we use long-edge graphs, which ... -
A critique of Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission’s initiatives in combating corruption and its implications for education in the light of Aristotelian concept of akrasia
(2010)The causes and effects of corruption, and how to combat it, are issues that are attracting national and international agenda. On the international scene, the formation of the UN Convention ... -
Effects of Community Health Strategy Implementation on Health Care Utilization Among Residents of Nakuru Central Sub County, Nakuru County
(IJSEAS, 2017)Background: Community health strategy (CHS) is an approach of one of the Kenyan Vision 2030 flagship projects that intends to improve the health status of communities. The overall goal of CHS is to enhance community ...
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