Open AccessEmerging Trends in the Performance of Christian Religious Education in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Examination
Author(s) -
Godfrey Banda Mayende
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of advances in education and philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2523-2665
pISSN - 2523-2223
DOI - 10.36348/jaep.2022.v06i02.002
Subject(s) - status quo , certificate , cheating , subject (documents) , political science , medical education , pedagogy , psychology , social psychology , medicine , law , library science , computer science , algorithm
This paper examined the emerging trends in the performance of Christian Religious Education (CRE) in the Kenya certificate of secondary school education examinations (KCSE). The main objective in this paper was to establish significant reasons that may have prompted the declining performance in the performance of this subject during national examinations in the recent past. The study involved both primary and secondary data which was skillfully analysed to generate the findings in this paper. Significantly, oral interviews (abbreviated as O.I in the entire text) from teachers of CRE in various schools across the country were conducted to beef up the findings in this paper. It is indeed true from the findings that CRE has been experiencing average or poor performance since 2016 after the introduction of the stringent mechanisms to curb the alleged national examination cheating that had been witnessed in the previous years. It has also been established that CRE is no longer a “booster” subject and the discipline may become unpopular in the near future should the status quo remain.