Influence If Students Characteristics On Performance Of Physics, In Kenya Certificate Of Secondary Education In Selected Public Secondary Schools, Laikipia County, Kenya

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to address the following objectives to analyze the influence of students’ attitude towards physics and find out the influence of student gender on the performance of physics in KCSE in Laikipia County. The Ex post facto research design was adopted. All the 67 secondary schools in Laikipia County of which only 57 mixed public secondary schools were purposively considered…the study recommends that teachers should take first step towards improving student attitude towards Physics , that there should be school forums to encourage student’s understanding important of physics, that both gender should be encouraged and given equal opportunities to doing Physics and that teachers should design their training methodology in a way to encourage high attitude towards Physics. Keywords: Attitude, Gender, Performance and Physics.