The effect of overcrowded classrooms on teacher’s effectiveness in Tanzania: The case of public secondary schools in Temeke district.

Dauden, Mashaka (2023) The effect of overcrowded classrooms on teacher’s effectiveness in Tanzania: The case of public secondary schools in Temeke district. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study investigated the effect of overcrowded classrooms on teacher’s effectiveness in Tanzania: the case of public secondary schools in Temeke district. The study focused on three objectives namely; to assess the situation of classrooms in terms of overcrowding in Temeke district, to determine the factors influencing overcrowding classrooms towards teacher’s effectiveness in Temeke district, to assess problems that limit Overall teachers’ effectiveness in public secondary school in Temeke district. The study adopted a mixed research and convergent descriptive research design. The target population of the study was 1500 including, School heads, teachers, and district educational officers and Sample size was 133 respondents 6 heads of school and 127 teachers, sampled through random sampling techniques. The study employed questionnaires and interviews to obtain required data from the field. Quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics with the help of SPSS version 20 and was presented in tables, while the qualitative data were analyzed thematically. The study revealed that while schools were instructed to accommodate 45 students per class, but students exceeded 76 within a single stream. The challenges of overcrowded classrooms were, difficult in application and implementation of competence-based curriculum, and poor classroom managements. This concludes that overcrowded classroom affect teaching and learning process, since it affects effectiveness of teachers and classroom management. The study recommended that students from secondary schools should be enrolled in other learning institution like so that to avoid massive influx number of students in secondary schools. Furthermore, it is recommended that the government and community should cooperate together and build more secondary schools so as to accommodate the number of students in secondary schools. Keywords: Overcrowded, classroom, Teacher, Public secondary school, Temeke District

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