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Evaluation is centrally concerned with the making of value judgments. In the school setting, evaluation underpins the teacher’s development of curriculum activities, his/her selection of instructional objectives in his/her day-today lesson planning and choice of materials and methods by which to judge the progress of his/her students. Evaluation enables the teacher to make appropriate decisions about his/her on-going classroom activities and to plan future activities more purposefully and...
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Although the measurement and determinants of poverty have been widely studied, vulnerability, or the threat of future poverty, has been more difficult to investigate due to data paucity. This paper combines nationally representative household data with objective drought and price information to quantify the causes of vulnerability to poverty in Ethiopia. Previous estimates have relied on self-reported shocks and variation in outcomes within a survey, which is inadequate for shocks such as...
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The main purpose of this paper is to determine the contribution of each level of education on growth in economic sectors of Togo, and to test the causality between each level of education and the growth in economic sectors, using Solow augmented model with human capital resources, developed by Mankiw and al. (1992). The data cover the period 1984-2014. The methodological approach is based on the cointegration, the causality tests and the fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS) suggested...
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Abstract: The aim of this research was to evaluate academic performance in the Faculty of Education and Languages in the city of Amran, by applying some of the requirements of TQM from the viewpoint teachers of the college, and impact of (sex , specialty, qualification, experience) on their assessment of the performance, using the descriptive method. A questionnaire of (79) items distributed over seven themes was designed and distributed to all members of the population which were (100)....
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In Nigeria, especially Cross River State, traditional instructional methods such as lecture method still prevail in the classroom even in the 21st century where innovative approaches are pre-dominant on the global stage. Some traditional, teacher-centred classrooms are generally chaotic, most so where the class size is large. Instruction is also heavily teacher-centred where students are mere recipients of information. Managing pupils’ classroom behaviour in such classrooms has become an...
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This study investigated the Effect of Fieldtrip Strategy on Senior Secondary School Students’ Academic Achievement in Geography in Numan Educational Zone, Adamawa State, Nigeria. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated and tested in the study. The study adopted the quasi-experimental research design. A sample size of 138 Senior Secondary (SS II) students offering geography from two public senior secondary schools in Numan Educational Zone was used for the study. The groups...
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Abstract. The 12th International Conference on Teaching, Education and Learning (ICTEL) was held on the 25 th and 26 th November 2016 at Middlesex University. In this hectic time closing this year, eight academics who also wrote research papers made a formal presentation of their work. Dr Banally of Global Research and Development Services (GRDS) acted as the moderator for all the presentations that took place on both days. The conference invited topics from various spheres of tertiary...
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As sound is to music, so is language to humans. In this paper, attempts were made at defining the key words, language and education, as well as the role of language education. The place of the national policy on education in Nigeria was considered. Consequently, some recommendations were reached on how best language education can be repositioned in the Nigeria educational system. In conclusion, parents, teachers, students, the government and the public in general have a role to play at...
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The purpose of the study was to investigate factors that have an explanatory or predictive power on the intentions of students to start their own business. Studies show that the propensity of a person to start a new venture is moderated by a number of factors within the individual and also external to the individual hence the purpose of the study to identify those factors and how much predictive power they have. A population of 250 from a population of 540 final year students at Botho...
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This chapter discusses the impact of the political, cultural and social background of Libyan society on the current quality of English education in the country. Libya has witnessed several attempts to reform English education since the 1970s; however, these attempts were based on introducing grammar-based curricula which were designed by non-native speakers of English, few of whom were Libyans. In an effort to reform English education in the country, the Libyan Ministry of Education...
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This exploratory and descriptive study analyzed factors influencing employment choice of accounting graduates in higher education institutions in Botswana. Graduates’ preference to type of employer and size of employer were also analyzed. Data was collected through a survey of randomly selected 120 final year undergraduate accounting students from four randomly samples private higher education institutions in Botswana. Also, 60 accounting practitioners were purposively selected for data...
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The modern-day areas of Palestine corresponding to the West Bank including East Jerusalem and the Gaza strip represent some interesting and dynamic sociolinguistic realities. First, although these are areas in which colloquial Arabic has traditionally been spoken by a majority of the population, several other languages have been in use in educational domains especially Classical Arabic, Turkish, and French among Christians. However, the British Mandate period saw the establishment of English...
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Since 1994, various policies and guidelines, pertaining to modifying the language policy in Tunisia have been disseminated. All of these policies highlighted the importance of English as a global language. Despite all these policies and guidelines, the English language is still experiencing problems within schools and society alike. These problems prevent the language from developing and functioning accurately in the country. The actual requirements of English language learning are still not...