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The Perceptions of Career Counselors and Students about the Influence of Self- Awareness on the Choice of Training Programmes in Public Secondary Schools of Kenya
(Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2019)The choice of a career is very important because it affects one’s entire life. To enable students make this crucial decision, career guidance is offered in secondary schools in Kenya to help the students realise their ... -
Phonological analysis of Kĩtigania borrowed words from the Maa Language: An optimality approach
(Miriti, G. and Thuranira, S. (2022, June 28-30). Phonological analysis of Kĩtigania borrowed words from the Maa Language: An optimality approach. [Paper Presentation]. The Inaugural Meru University of Science and Technology International Conference, Meru., 2022-06)The notion of loanwords in languages that are in a contact situation is a phenomenon that is very common and unavoidable. For languages of the world, language change is remorseless, inevitable and ceaseless. This is ... -
Planning and Managing Technical and Vocational Education in Polytechnics: Priorities in Training Trends and Prospects
(International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention, 2016)The desire to plan and manage vocational education adequately as an investment for economic and human resource is reinforced by studies in the field of educational economics such as UNESCO and UNICEF through ... -
Profile Privacy Aware Framework for Static objects Participatory Sensing
(Foundation of Computer Science, 2016)Mobile devices users in Participatory Sensing Systems (PSS) are required to collect information from their nearby data collection points (DCs). A query normally reveals the identity (id), location, and user profile (eg, ... -
Relationship between Teacher - Educator Characteristics and the Integration of Information and Communication Technologies in Teaching and Learning in Teacher Education Institutions in Kenya
(International Journal of Education and Social Science, 2016)It is a government policy that all institutions of learning in Kenya, across the curricula embrace Information Communication Technology (ICT) as the world moves towards knowledge based economy. The evidence ... -
The Relationship between University Students’ Training in Computing and their Motivation to Utilize ICT Resources in Learning in Selected Universities in Nakuru County, Kenya
(Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 2015)Over the past few years, the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education has grown rapidly. The benefits of ICT adoption are evident. However, it is a known fact that teachers face many challenges ... -
Social media and fake news: boon or bane for journalism?
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2022-06)The upsurge and growth in the uptake of social media has had a profound impact on journalism as it has traditionally been practised. Social media has permeated all aspects of human activities and brought with it negative ... -
Staff Factors Influencing the Adoption and Utilization of Mobile Learning Technologies in Chartered Universities in Kenya
(J. Env. Sust. Adv. Res., 2019)The factors influencing the adoption and utilization of mobile technologies as tools for learning in Kenyan universities have received little attention in research. The purpose of this study was to investigate how factors ... -
Students' Attitude Towards Web-based Learning Resources
(Clemson University, 2014)The purpose of this study was to assess students' attitude towards web-based learning resources. Specifically, the study assessed (a) differences in attitude change, towards the Western Civilization class, for students ... -
Supporting University Learning Through Mobile Technologies: A Global Perspective
(International Journal of Education & Literacy Studies, 2015)The workplace in the modern world continues to demand higher qualifications and refined competencies. In the recent past, workers would respond to such demands through learning by correspondence. When the Internet and ... -
Teacher training pathways for competency based curriculum (CBC) in the university education in Kenya
(Meru University of Science and Technology, 2022-06)The education reform in Kenya recommended phasing out of the 8-4-4 education system to embrace the 2-6-3-3-3 competency based curriculum (CBC). The embraced curriculum has three learning pathways or pillars at senior ... -
Technological Preferences, Levels of Utilization and Attitude of Students Towards Mobile Learning Technologies in Chartered Universities, Kenya
(International Journal of Education & Literacy, 2017)The affordances of mobile technologies are being felt in many sectors of world’s economy including university education. By solving the limitations of fixed instructional technologies, mobile technologies have received ... -
The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and its Application to the Utilization of Mobile Learning Technologies
(Br. J. Math. Comput. Sci, 2017)Researchers have argued that inclusion of technologies in the teaching-learning places must be preceded by the user accepting the technology. Without this effort, the technologies remain abandoned or heavily underutilized ... -
Teenage Girls and Television Advertisements: The Reaction of Teenage Girls to Persuasion in Advertisements
(Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012)The book the reaction of teenage girls to TV advertisements looks at the language of persuasion in television adverts and looks at how the teenage girls react to it. The adverts do more than just sell the products they ... -
Transforming the Mindset of Youths towards Prevention of Drug and Substance Abuse through Social Media
(Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences, 2022-02-18)Substance use among students in Kenyan institutions of higher learning has risen substantially in recent years. This has necessitated innovative intervention responses to curb the growing trend. The Alcohol Drugs and ... -
University Education Academic Policies and Students’ Sports Talent D evelopment in Elite Sports in the Universities in Kenya
(International Journal of Professional Practice, 2021)Literature has revealed that United States of America and other European countries associated with monopolization of performance in international sports competitions,like Olympic Games,have collaborated with their ... -
University Education Academic Policies and Students’ Sports Talent Development in Elite Sports in the Universities in Kenya: Pre- Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) Implementation in the University Education in Kenya
(International Journal of Professional Practice, 2021)Literature has revealed that United States of America and other European countries associated with monopolization of performance in international sports competitions, like Olympic Games, have collaborated with their ... -
A Use Intention Model for Lo cation-Based Mobile Advertising
(The African Journal of Information Systems, 2015)The use of location based mobile advertising to deliver context specific information from businesses to clients has the potential to help them increase revenues, personalize offerings and reduce marketing costs. ... -
Use of Computer-Based Technologies and Internet-Based Audio Material in Instruction in K-12 Classrooms
(Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2004)The Historical Voices Educators' Forum project concerns itself with the educational use of authentic aural artifacts in a bid to improve teachers' practices and pedagogy. The Forum aims to disseminate digitized materials ... -
Vocational Education at the Crossroads: Inculcating Skills Competence Into Trainees
(International Journal of Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Research, 2017)There has been heighted demand for relevant skills training and information on how labor markets operate, especially in the context of addressing unemployment challenges in Africa, and Kenya in particular. This has faced ...