Effects Of Institutional Variables On Early Literacy Among Public Primary School Pupils In Vihiga County, Kenya

ABSTRACT Low literacy skills and performance among primary schools in Kenya have been found to be caused by poor instructional and evaluation methods. To this effect, TUSOME literacy programme undertook to carry out in-service training of lower primary teachers on reading skills with the view to improving literacy skills acquisition among lower primary school pupils. However, there seem to be a disconnect between literacy investment and learner reading achievement in the country and particularly in Hamisi sub-county. To address this, this study hypothesized that un-favourable school literacy …