Students’ Council Involvement in Decision Making and Students’ Discipline in Secondary Schools in Tongaren Sub County, Kenya

There has been an increase of indiscipline cases in secondary schools' country wide. In some instances, students' unrest and strikes have been witnessed. This has been happening despite the enactment of Students' Council in 2009 as a way of managing students' discipline. In light of this problem, the purpose of this study was to assess the influence of students' council involvement in decision making on students' discipline. The study was founded on the Social Systems Theory and Path Goal Theory of Leadership. The study employed descriptive survey research design targeting a population of 11891 students, 720 members of the student councils, 24 deputy principals in 24 secondary schools and 1 Sub County Director of Education. Stratified random sampling was adopted to select 12 schools in which 276 students, 84 members of the student council were sampled using simple random method while purposive sampling was used to select 12 Deputy Principals and 1 Sub County Director of Education. Questionnaires, interview schedules and document analysis were used to collect data from respondents. To ensure validity and reliability of instruments, a pilot study was conducted in two schools within the area of study. Data analysis involved both descriptive statistics such as frequencies. Weighted means and standard deviation while hypotheses were verified using the inferential statistical technique of independent samples t test. The finding of this study was that schools in which student councils are involved in decision making there is high level of students' discipline. Wanyonyi Protus | Wanjala Demtilla | Juma Injendi "Students' Council Involvement in Decision Making and Students' Discipline in Secondary Schools in Tongaren Sub County, Kenya" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-7 , December 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd52618.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/52618/students'-council-involvement-in-decision-making-and-students'-discipline-in-secondary-schools-in-tongaren-sub-county-kenya/wanyonyi-protus