Influence of Curriculum Support Officers’ Role in Teacher’s Development of Instructional Resources on Quality Teaching in Public Day Secondary Schools in Kakamega County, Kenya
Lubanga Henry Akolo
Department of Educational Planning & Management, Kibabii University, Kenya
Simon Kipkenei
Department of Educational Planning & Management, Kibabii University, Kenya
Robert Wafula
Department of Educational Psychology, Kibabii University, Kenya
ABSTRACT:
The role of the curriculum support officer is to help the school reach its goals and adhere to its philosophy by supporting and helping teachers present a curriculum that is based on clear expectations for high quality learning outcomes and standards. Curriculum support officers help teachers be more productive, get the results that are wanted, and reach the educational goals set out in the National Policy on Education. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of curriculum support officers’ role in teacher use of instructional resources on quality teaching in public day secondary schools in Kakamega County. The Coaching theory was used to guide the work. Ex-post facto research method was used for the study. There are 5207 teachers and 425 school principals from 425 public day secondary schools and 37 curriculum support officers’ in Kakamega County who are the target group. A group of 13 curriculum support officers from 13 Sub-Counties, 52 Principals, and 521 teachers from 52 public day secondary schools were used in the study. To choose the curriculum support officer’s and administrators, purposeful sampling was used. To choose the teachers from 52 schools in Kakamega County, random simple sampling was used. A plan for interviews and a closed-ended questionnaire with a Likert scale from 1 to 5 were used to get the information. The managers decided on the face and content validity. The test-retest method, which used data from the pilot study, decided on the reliability. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was used to measure the devices’ internal consistency. Since the correlation coefficient was between 0.723 and 0.862, all the factors were thought to be pretty good since it showed a strong positive link between the results of the first test and the results of the second test. Texts and straight data extracts were used in the show. Percentages, means, standard deviations, relationships, and linear regressions were used to look at the data. The study found that curriculum support officer’ in the county devote insufficient attention to their role in teacher use of instructional resources and does comprise quality of education. The study’s results should help the curriculum support officers to guarantee better and more efficient use of teacher resources in order to ensure quality teaching in public day secondary schools in Kakamega County.
Published in: International Journal of Research in Interdisciplinary Studies (Volume 2, Issue 10, October 2024)
Page(s): 1-8
Date of Publication: 09/10/2024
Publisher: IJRIS
Cite as:
Lubanga Henry Akolo, Simon Kipkenei, Robert Wafula, “Influence of Curriculum Support Officers’ Role in Teacher’s Development of Instructional Resources on Quality Teaching in Public Day Secondary Schools in Kakamega County, Kenya,” in International Journal of Research in Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 2, no. 10, pp. 1-8, October 2024.