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    English language proficiency and academic achievement in Tanzania secondary schools.
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2011) Wilson, Job
    English, the LOI has fallen victim of blame of some scholars as the cause of poor performance in secondary schools. The study aimed at investigating whether there is a relationship between English Language Proficiency (ELP) and academic achievement in Tanzanian secondary schools. The study further sought to examine the extent of the relationship and the influence of ELP on students' academic achievement in English and in other school subjects. The data used were obtained by administering an ELPT test and review of students' reports, and were quantitatively analysed with the help of SPSS. The study revealed that there is a significant weak positive relationship between ELP and students' academic achievement. It was realised to be significant in English and insignificant in other subjects. Hence, the study contributes to the field of language testing and the results inform test developers and educators that no single variable can predict performance; therefore, ELP can be used in combination with other factors. The study concludes that academic performance is an interplay of several variables and that ELP plays a role in performance but not the major role. The study recommends the government and the public to look beyond language skills when making judgment pertaining to academic students' success. Also, emphasizes on the improvement of ELP since it is positively connected with academic success. Furthermore, the study recommends future research to explore on non-ELP factors on how, they affect performance as it was observed that it is these factors which affect performance greatly.
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    The impact of internal school supervision on students’ academic performance: a case of selected private secondary schools in Kinondoni Municipality
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2014) Anakle, Aretas
    The study sought to examine the effectiveness of school supervision on secondary education and how it has contributed to enhancing academic performance through internal school supervision. The research was conducted in Kinondoni municipality in Dar es Salaam, and it involved one hundred and ninety (190) respondents from ten secondary schools, and it used qualitative and quantitative methods. Schools with students having good performance in their final examination results were those which have a regular system of conducting internal school supervision. It was revealed that school internal supervision had an impact on the final academic pass rate of the students. Schools with students having better academic pass rate in their final national examination over five years were conducting regularly internal school supervision while those with poor pass rate had no regular internal supervision. However it was also revealed that schools were not regularly visited by external inspectors, which in some of the poorly performing schools, internal supervision was always driven by external supervision. Internal supervision faces problems, such as insufficient number of teachers, difference in education level and experience of the heads of schools and the teachers, resistance from teachers, time management and lack of proper school supervision by the heads of school. It was therefore recommended that there was a need to recruit more student teachers who are to be groomed as school supervisors and be allocated to schools to pursue school internal supervision at the school, to organise capacity building courses for the heads of schools, train teachers, give heads of schools the mandate to conduct internal school supervision regardless of their work experience and education level, set the level of education of the heads of schools all over the country, and initiate programmes for INSET in clusters.