Jonathan Kelly

Current professional activity

• Student

Investigation of the relationship between science students’ performance in the certificate of secondary education and progression at university of Juba-South Sudan

The correlation between secondary school performance and progression within higher education programs has been a subject of concern to researchers globally. In contrary, existing research on the relationship between Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) and student progression in higher education...

Parental engagement and role construction in the implementation of the competency-based education in selected public primary schools, in Nakuru County, Kenya

Driven by the need to equip learners with practical skills and nurture talent, Kenya introduced the Competency-Based Education (CBE) in 2018, aligning with Vision 2030 and SDG Goal 4. While global evidence highlights the critical role of parental engagement in...

Effect of integrating assistive technologies on academic performance for learners with visual impairment in selected integrated secondary schools in South Rift Counties, Kenya

The 2018 Special Needs Education Policy Framework in Kenya aimed to improve academic performance for learners with visual impairment (LVI) through inclusive education. Despite the potential of Assistive Technologies (AT), many LVI in secondary schools continue to perform below their...

Performance of income-generating projects in financing budget deficits in the selected public universities in Tanzania

Globally, the literature shows that income generation projects (IGPs) in public universities have become an essential strategy for universities to address their financial shortfalls caused by underfunding from national budgets, massification of higher education, and rising operational demands. In Tanzania,...

Stakeholders’ participation in school management and enhancement of learners’ academic achievement in selected government-aided secondary schools in Uganda

Stakeholders’ participation, alongside school-based management is recognized as one of the key reforms that aim at improving the instructional processes which enhance the learners’ academic achievement. The purpose of the study was to analyse the extent to which stakeholders’ participation...

Leveraging teacher concerns in educational change: a case of the Uganda lower secondary curriculum reform

Teacher concerns are the pulse of educational change. Scholarship on various educational change endeavours across sub-Saharan Africa identified inattention to teacher factors as a major cause of failure to achieve intended educational outcomes. The theoretical framework for this study: the...

A culturally responsive strategy for teaching sexual concepts in rural Xhosa secondary schools

While research shows that the recognition and integration of indigenous knowledge (IK) is an important issue for developing culturally responsive strategies when teaching and learning science to, and by, indigenous people, little has been said about cultural taboos of a...

Teachers’ preparedness for the implementation of the new business subjects’ curriculum in selected secondary schools of Kabale district, Uganda

Teachers should be well prepared to enhance the implementation of the new Business Subjects curriculum. They ought to be well prepared to enhance the implementation of the new Business Subjects’ curriculum so as to impart the values of UgandaVision 2040....