The Influence of Strategy in Achieving Institutional Performance in Secondary Schools of Selected Counties in Kenya

Abstract

This thesis objective was to find out the influence of strategy in achieving institutional performance in secondary schools of selected counties in Kenya.  This was measured by school mean score in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education. The researcher examined both secondary data from websites and journals with the primary data directly collected by closed ended questionnaire from the field. The key variable was the strategy as the independent variable and institutional performance as dependent variable. This was measured in terms of, school mean score in National examinations. The research adopted a cross sectional research design of survey type. Firsthand information from the respondents was obtained by use of questionnaire. The target population consisted of 350 respondents comprising of principals, deputy principals, and directors of studies and Heads of Department of mathematics, languages, humanities and sciences. However, 259 respondents were collected and response rate was therefore 74%. The validity was done to establish the influence of strategy in achieving institutional performance with. Cronbach's alpha value of strategy having posted 0. 795.The institutional performance variable was tested for normality using the Kolmogorov- Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk test and it was established to be normal since the p value of 0.141 was obtained. The strategy was regressed on institutional performance and the R-value was 0.581, the R square was 0.337 and the adjusted R square was 0.335 for strategy implying that strategy was able to explain 33.5 % of the variations in institutional performance. The correlation between strategy and institutional performance was 0.581that was significant at p= 0.000 implying a strong positive relationship and therefore statistically significant influence of strategy on institutional performance. This study confirmed that the strategy had a significant influence on the performance of secondary schools in selected counties in Kenya.