Teachers’ Perception Towards Transfer of School Heads and Its Effect on Students’ Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Nyeri County, Kenya
Keywords:
Teachers’ Perception, Transfer of School Heads, New school, Students’ Performance, Public Secondary SchoolsAbstract
Transfer of school heads has been one of the major concerns in the educational sector whereby the concerned authority always formulates and implements policies that will ensure students meet the set standards for quality education. The purpose of the study was to establish teachers’ perceptions towards the transfer of school heads and their effects on students’ performance. The study is guided by expected utility theory and adopted a descriptive survey design. The target population was 2995 teachers, where a sample of 121 teachers was selected using a simple random sampling technique. The findings of the study reveal that teachers’ perception towards the transfer of school heads had a positive and significant effect on student
performance. The study recommends that the Teachers service commission should develop a program aimed at creating awareness to teachers on the importance of transfer of school heads. The program should focus on changing teachers’ perceptions towards school heads transfer, which was found to significantly influence student academic performance.
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