Effects of Human Resource Factors on Student Performance in Bungoma North Sub-County Kenya

The implementation of free primary education in Kenya gave rise to many challenges that the government had not anticipated which affects the quality of education as opposed to improving it. The teacher-pupil ratio remains too high in public schools (Too, 2004). The study sought to establish the effect of teacher capacity development on student performance in Bungoma North Sub-County. The study used descriptive research design. The target population involved principals and teachers as its respondents. The study will focused on teacher training, motivation, promotion and appraisal with regard to student performance. The study mainly targeted all principals and teachers in secondary schools in Bungoma North Sub-County. The study used simple random sampling technique to select 15 schools from the 36 secondary schools in the sub-county. Thereafter, 15 principals from the sampled schools were purposively sampled. Lastly, 75 teachers were randomly sampled and selected; 5 from each of the 15 sampled schools. This population was targeted since they are directly affected by teacher capacity development as well as students’ academic performance.