TABLE OF CONTENTS
DECLARATION: ..................... ....................................................................................... i
APPROVAL .................................................................................................................... ii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...................................... .. ............................................ ......... iii
DEDICATION ............................................................................................................... iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................. v
ABSTRACT ..................................................................................................................... vii
CHAPTER ONE ............................................................................................................... 1
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 1
1.1 Background to the study ............................................................................................ 1
1.2 Statement of the problem .......................................................................................... 4
1.3 Objectives of the study ................................. ..... ..... ................................................... 4
1.3.1 General objective .................................................................................................... 4
1.3.2 Specific objectives will be to ; .............................................................................. .4
1.4 Research questions .................................................................................... ................ 5
1.5 Scope of the study ................. .................................................................................... 5
1.6 Significance ofthe study .................................................................................... ....... 5
CHAPTER TWO ............................... .......... ..................................................... ............... 7
LITERATURE REVIEW ................................................................................................ 7
2.0 Introduction ...... ......................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Factors Responsible for Teachers Motivation ........................................................... 7
2.2 Relationship between motivation and performance ......................... ....................... I 0
2.2.1 Does pay affect teacher behaviour? ...................................................................... l1
2.2.2 Evidence on the impact of teacher incentives on pupils performance ................. 14
2.3 Other factors that affect learner's performance other than teacher's motivation .... 16
CHAPTER THREE ........................................... ............................................................ 23
METHODOLOGY: ......... .............................................................................................. 23
3.0 Introduction ......................................................................... .................................... 23
3 .I Research design ....................................................................................................... 23
3.2 Popul ation of the study ......................................... ..................... .............................. 23
3.3 Study san1ple .................................. ...................... ................................................... 23
3.4 Research instruments ............................................................................................... 24
3.5 Research procedure ................................................................................................. 24
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3.6 Data analysis and interpretation ....................... .......... ............................................. 24
_CHAPTER FOUR ......................................................................................................... 26
4.0 DATA PRESENTATION ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION ................ 26
4.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................. 26
4.2. TEACHERS BIO-DATA ....................................................................................... 27
4.3. PUPILS BIO-DATA ....................................... ....................................................... 28
4.4 TEACHERS ANAL YSIS .......................................................... ............... ..... .......... 29
4.5.PUPILS ANALYSIS ............................................................................................... 32
CHAPTER FIVE ........................................................................................................... 34
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ........................................................ 34
5.1 Discussion of the findings ....................................................................................... 34
5.2 Conclusions ............................................................................................................. 35
5.3 Reco1nmendations ................................................................................................... 35
5.4 Areas of further studies ...................................................................... ..................... 36
REFERENCES ............................................................................................................... 3 7
APPENDICES .. ............................................................................................................. 40
APPENDIX A ........... .................................................................................................... 40
PUPILS' QUESTIONNAIRE ....................................................................................... 40
APPENDIX 8 ............................................................................................................... . 44
TEACHERS' QUESTIONNAIRE ................................................................................ 44
ABSTRACT To assess the relationship between teachers motivation and academic performance of pupils in primmy schools in Chapchap zone and suggest possible solutions to curb the problem. AI secondary sources viewed relevant to this study were revisited and this helped the researcher get a clear picture of what the entire study was to entail. A d descriptive design was employed in the study since the entire study was about a description of an event or scenario. Questionnaires served as the main instruments of the study and after collecting dat from the respondents, such data were sorted, coded, analyzed and presented in tables. The findings from the study revealed that there was a relationship between motivation and teachers performance. Recommendations were made which ca!ledfor improved and increment in human capital investment as this could be the omly lFay of having an improvement in the academic pe;formance of learners.
