Effect of Mentorship Programmes on the Performance of Students in Secondary Schools in Mbooni East District, Makueni County-Kenya

Abstract

A study by Slicker and Palmer (1993) showed that effectively mentored students tended to have higher academic achievement and had other characteristics like self-concept. Academic achievement and dropout rates can be influenced by mentoring efforts. Mentored students tent to behave positively and more responsively, they are more disciplined than none mentored ones. Yet in Mbooni East District secondary school students have continued to perform poorly and have been found to be indisciplined. Still many students are performing unsatisfactorily despite most of them having been admitted to secondary school with high marks in KCPE and they later perform poorly in the KCSE there is need therefore to find out what goes on in the life of the same person who performed well in one stage and badly in a period of four or so years. Do the Schools have mentorship programmes? How are they organised? How they are implemented? .

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n5p167