Abstract:
The study sought to investigate the factors affecting effective in-mate candidate's
preparation for the Kenya certificate of primary education examination in Naivasha
maximum prison, Nakuru County in Kenya. The objectives of the study were to establish
effect of instructional materials, effect of academic qualification of teachers, the effect of
physical infrastructure and effect of support present. This study was guided by the
Education Production Functions Really Theory, proposed in 1997. Which express the
relationship between the qualities of outputs produced as functionally being dependent
upon quality of inputs used. A case study research design and purposive sampling
technique was used in choosing the sample size. The target population for the study was
the District Education Officer, 4 welfare officers, 5 teachers in prison and 26 in-mate
Candidates. Data was collected using interview for the DEO, questionnaire for the
welfare officers, teachers in prison and in-mate students. Cronbach's alpha coefficient of
0.7 was acceptable for reliability of research instruments. Data collected was analyzed
using quantitatively and qualitatively. Inferential and descriptive statistics played an
important role in the presentation and interpretation of analyzed data. For descriptive
statistics, frequency tables, bar graphs and percentages was used while for Inferential the
researcher used Regression analysis, Analysis of Variance, Pearson correlation and Chi-
Square. Regression analysis was carried out using the model, which combines
independent variables with dependent variable. The model, (R2 = 0.88) shows that all the
predictors account for 88% variation for effective preparation of in-mate candidates.
Therefore, the predictors used in the model captured the variation in effective preparation
of in-mate candidates. The adjusted R2 gave the idea of how well the model generalized.
In my case the value of adjusted R2 was .877, which showed that if the data was derived
from the prison population rather than the sample it could have account for
approximately 87.7% less variance in the effective in-mate candidates preparation. The
change statistics were used to test whether the change in R2 is significant using the F
ratio. The Model caused R2 to change from zero to .880 and that change gave rise to an F
ratio of 277.34, which was significant at a probability of .05. The findings indicated that
there was a significant relationship between the instructional materials (X2 (35) =437.01,
p<.05 academic qualification of teachers, (l (35) =435.676, p<.05 support present (X2
(35) =123.36, p<.05. infrastructure, (X2 (35) =475.5, p<.05. Based on the findings it was
recommended that the Ministry of education should provide clear guidelines, policies and
professional guidance and training regarding effective preparation of in-mate candidates
for Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination in all prisons.