http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/1/221 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:07:56 GMT 2026-04-05T17:07:56Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/1/297 Title: Influence of principal's leadership styles on teacher's turnover in public secondary schools in Garissa township sub-county Authors: Omutho, Michael Odhiambo Abstract: Retaining teachers in secondary schools in Kenya is a major challenge fow educationally inenyaacachers keep changing influence of principals' leadership styles contribute to teachers' turnover in public diary tools in Garissa Township swing objectives: to examine the inon teachers turnover in public secondary schools, to establish whether there is ahip between principal transforeadershverinSccondary schools; to determine the influence of laissez-faire on teacher turn-over inner inic seconKenya. The studymployed thurvey research design. Using the census method.Which drew a sample of 98 teachers was selected using simple randomsampling.Theschools were the teachers'questionnaire and principals' interview schedule were analyzed usingfrequencies.percentages,means and standard deviation and Pearson r moment correlation. Validity was arrived at by expert judgment while reliability was ascertained done with the help of SPSS program 22.00. Qualitative data was analyzed thematically.Questionnaire Model for attributes of democratic, autocratic and laissez faire style while teacher's turnover was measured by Means and Standard Deviation. The findings of the study indicated that there was a significant relationship between principals autocratic leadership and teachers turnover (p<.05). In Principals' transformational the null was accepted (p>.05). In Principals' democratic leadership style there was no significant relationship with teachers turnover (p>.05) While in Principals' laissez-faire leadership style there was a significant relation with teachers turnover (p<.05). It was concluded that principals employed different leadership styles are employed teachers' turnover islamist. The findings of the study will be useful to the ministry of education,teachers service commission and respective head teachers who will know the right leadership style emulate that influence teachers' turnover... Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/1/297 2024-06-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/1/295 Title: Predictors of students transition to junior school Authors: Owour, Paul Felix Abstract: The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between school culture,school condition and teacher competencies to student transition from primary school to junior secondary school.The objective of the study was: To establish the relationship between school culture and student transition from primary to junior school.To examine the relationship between school conditions and student transition from primary school to junior school.To determine the association between teacher competencies and student transition from primary to junior school. To assess whether a combination of school culture, school conditions, and teacher competencies predict student transition from primary school to junior school. Quantitative research employing a correlation research design was used to investigated the predictive role of school culture, school conditions,and teacher competencies in student transitions. The study targeted 336 teachers in 30 public primary schools within the Garissa Township sub-county.Census sampling technique was used to collect data from every single unit in the population. The study employed questionnaires to collect data from teachers. Face and content validity was used to measure the extent to which an instrument is intended to measure,technical soundness and meaningfulness while Cronbach Alpha tests were done to analyse items for internal consistency and reliability. All the domains in the questionnaire had Cronbach Alpha correlation coefficient above 0.7, which were considered adequate. As a result, 246 teachers responded to the questionnaire while 90 were unresponsive.Descriptive statistics including mean and standard deviation were applied in analysing quantitative data the inferential statistics using Spearman's rank correlation was used to test bivariate a correlation while Ordinal logistic regression was used to analyse the fourth objective The findings revealed significant and positive relationships between each of these factors and student transition.However, it is important to note that the models explain only a fraction of the total variance,indicating the potential influence of other unaccounted factors. Therefore,the study recommendsan emphasis on positive school culture, improved school conditions, and enhanced teacher competencies beyond subject matter expertise. Moreover, future research should consider incorporating additional variables, such as parental involvement and socio-economic backgrounds,to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of student transition. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/1/295 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z