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    A Functional Approach to Educational Research Methods and Statistics: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches
    (Edwin Mellen Press., 2012) Ayiro, Laban Peter
    The book's most immediate value resides in helping the reader understand the research process. An engaging and informative text on educational research and statistics. This book teaches students how to utilize the outcomes of their research. It examines how studies are conducted across the major traditions of educational research (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods). The text is for graduate students who want to pursue statistics. The book fulfills a need for a systematic account of research concepts and the use of statistics for advanced students. The fact is that research involves interrelated activities. Educators practice research following a general sequence of procedures. This book is demarcated into sections that reflect each step in the process of doing a study.
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    Art of institutional leadership: Unleashing the potential of emotional intelligence
    (East African Educational Publishers, 2022) Ayiro, Laban Peter
    In The Art of Institutional Leadership: Unleashing the Potential of Emotional Intelligence, Prof. Laban P. Ayiro articulates his leadership and management style from a personal perspective. If you are in a leadership position or you want to improve your general life experience, this book is for you. It addresses many people's concerns and interests. You will learn lessons on leadership from Prof. Ayiro's rich career as an educationist, spanning over 35 years
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    The Church and Politics: A Theological Reflection
    (Hippobooks, 2021) Boyo, Bernard; Ayiro, Laban Peter
    The Church and Politics offers an introduction to African political theology that is thorough, practical, and deeply powerful. From traditional power structures to the political ramifications of colonialism, Dr. Bernard Boyo provides a foundation for understanding Africa's contemporary political concerns in their cultural and historical context. Alongside this overview of African political history, Boyo traces the impact of Western missionaries, evangelicals, liberation theology, and African theologians on the church's understanding of itself and its role within society. This book critiques the emphasis on individual salvation that has so often led the church into abdicating its societal responsibilities and provides an exegetical analysis that firmly roots political engagement within a scriptural framework. The church, we are reminded, has a mandate to bring justice and righteousness into every aspect of human experience. As we follow Christ, it is not just our personal lives that should be transformed but our communities and even our nations.
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    Educational Research Methods: A Functional Approach
    (Kenya Literature Bureau, 2024) Ayiro, Laban Peter
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    Leadership and Management in Educational Institutions: Articles, Guides and Instruments for Improving Organizational Performance
    (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010) Ayiro, Laban Peter; Sang, James K.
    Leadership and management of educational institutions in Kenya presents many challenges leading to low performance levels. This manual offers innovative approaches to improving the leadership and management of these institutions. It has templates for target setting as well as established theory in the areas of team building, emotional intelligence, leadership and results based management. The additional inspirational speeches are intended to act as motivational devices for those using this manual for institutional improvement.This manual is also intended for use as a tool for training administators of educational institutions in aspects of Leadership and organizational management. It will also serve as a useful reference material for managers across the board.
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    Measuring Learning Outcomes in Kenya: Context and Perspectives
    (Emerald, 2016-01-06) Ayiro, Laban Peter
    The education system in Kenya is continually challenged to adapt and improve, in part because its mission has become far more ambitious than it once was due to the massive investment in education by successive governments over the last two decades. Today, most Kenyans expect schools to prepare all students to succeed in postsecondary education and to prosper in a complex, fast-changing global economy. To identify the most important measures for education and other issues and provide quality data on them to the country, there is a need for the ministry of education to establish a National Education Indicators framework. This criterion is hoped to enable policy makers and the public better assess the position and progress of the country across the education sector. The key task in developing education indicators will be to identify a clear and parsimonious set of measures and data that will be easy for non-specialists to understand but which will also do justice to the complexities of the ailing education system. These indicators will amplify the existing situation and will be drawn from a large, and sometimes conflicting, body of information about students, teachers and schools. The purpose of this study is to propose and urge the government to develop a national framework of indicators that will inform stakeholders on the performance of the education system, both at school and national level.
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    Online Learning, Instruction, and Research in Post-Pandemic Higher Education in Africa
    (Lexington Books, 2023) Munyao, Martin; Agyapong, Samuel; Law, George John; Ayiro, Laban Peter ; Jensen, Trine; Kiptinness, Evonne Mwangale; Ayoo, Philip; Kogo, Vincent; Kuria, Mike; Marinoni, Giorgio; Mbatha, Winnie; Mburu, Agnes N.; Mburu, Fridah; Mudegu, John; Mutua, Justice
    Online Learning, Instruction, and Research in Post-Pandemic Higher Education in Africa , edited by Martin Munyao, argues that beyond survival, universities need to adapt to technology-mediated communication learning in order to thrive. Disruptive technologies have recently proved to be means of thriving for institutions of higher learning. This book reflects on how leveraging on education technology has transformed teaching, learning, and research Higher Education Institutions (HEI) impacting Africa through digital transformation. In particular, HEIs are collaborating more now than ever before. Finally, this book addresses the challenges of teaching STEM programs online in Africa.
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    The Nature and Design of Mixed Methods Research
    (Daystar University, Nairobi, 2021) Ayiro, Laban Peter
    Because all methods of data collection have limitations, the use of multiple methods can neutralize or cancel out some of the disadvantages of certain methods. As well, the strengths of each approach can complement each other and because social phenomena are so complex, different kinds of methods are needed to best understand these complexities. Mixed methods are particularly appropriate for collaborative and applied research since it enables the researcher to answer confirmatory and exploratory questions at the same time, and as a result, the researcher can construct and confirm theory in the same study. Furthermore, it can provide explanations for seemingly contradictory results that emerge from using different methods.