DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2021.v09i11.001

Pages: 547-552

Globally, education stakeholders have a growing concern about students’ dismal academic achievement in standardized examinations in secondary schools. However, what is not known is how secondary schools internal examination administration practices affect students’ academic achievement. Hence, the purpose of the study was to determine the influence of internal examination administration practices on students’ academic achievement in public day secondary schools in Busia County, Kenya. The hypothesis of the study was that internal examination administration practice has no statistically significant influence on students’ academic achievement in public day secondary schools in Busia County, Kenya. The study was guided by the Education Production Function Theory and employed an ex-post facto research design. The study population comprised of 7,388 form four students of 2020 and 115 Directors of Studies (DOS) in the 115 public day secondary schools in Busia County. Multistage sampling was used to draw a sample of 661 respondents constituting of 626 form four students of 2020 and 35 Directors of Studies. Data was collected using; a questionnaire for form four 2020 students and Directors of Studies; and document analysis. Face and content validity of research instruments were ascertained using experts’ opinion from the supervisors while reliability was determined using Cronbach's Alpha and reliability of 0.954 and 0.923 for the candidates’ questionnaire and Directors of Studies questionnaire respectively were considered reliable. Quantitative data was analysed descriptively using mean and inferentially using Multiple Linear Regression by aid of Stata version 12.1 and results presented inform of tables. The study concluded that ineffectiveness in internal examinationadministration practices in public day secondary schools influence students’ academic achievement in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination. The study recommended that public day secondary schools