The purpose of the study was to establish tutors’ factors influencing quality in public primary teachers training colleges in Rift Valley Zone, Kenya. This study was based on the Malcolm Knowles (1968) Theory of Andragogy of adult learning which postulates...
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The purpose of the study was to establish tutors’ factors influencing quality in public primary teachers training colleges in Rift Valley Zone, Kenya. This study was based on the Malcolm Knowles (1968) Theory of Andragogy of adult learning which postulates that adult learning is self-directed and is expected to take responsibility for their decision. The study used descriptive survey research design and the instruments for data collection were questionnaires, interviews and document analysis. Purposive, stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select study sample. The target population was 2116 from all 4 Public Primary Teacher Training Colleges in Rift Valley Zone. Purposive technique was used to select 4 Principals, 4 Deans of Curriculum, 4 Deans of Students and the second year teacher trainees. Simple random sampling was employed to select 101 teacher trainers and 497 teacher trainees to represent 30% of the target population. A stratified sampling technique was
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