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In the present study, the idea of person-environment fit was explored for African American college students in a predominantly White university. The relationships among African American students’demographic backgrounds, beliefs regarding race (racial ideology and racial centrality), and their perceived fit in the college environment due to their ethnicity (PEF) were examined. These factors were used to predict student organizational involvement in race-specific organizations and mainstream...

Generally, it is argued that economic factors explain changes in literacy and enrolment rates in sub-Saharan Africa. This article demonstrates that educational indicators vary as much with religious factors, i.e. degree of Islamisation and Christianisation, as with economic factors. Forty years ago, strongly Christianised countries had higher rates of literacy and primary school enrolment than strongly Islamised countries, regardless of economic level, typpe of state and colonial background,...

Peer tutoring strategies tend to use structured peer interactions and group reward contingency. This study was designed to offer a peer learning environment within which the putative communal tendencies of African American youth could be capitalized on to facilitate learning an academic task. There were 72 African American fifth-grade students (36 males, 36 females) randomly assigned to a communal learning, peer tutoring criterion, or an individual criterion context and given a text of prose...

Cisplatin (8 mg/kg) was given intravenously to guinea pigs either as a 15 s bolus injection (25 animals) or as a 1 h infusion (28 animals). To determine the influence of the mode of cisplatin administration and pharmacokinetics on the ototoxic side-effect, the concentrations of cisplatin and the biotransformation product monoaquated cisplatin were determined in blood ultrafiltrate using liquid chromatography with post-column derivatization. Ototoxic effect was evaluated as difference in pre-...

A cross sectional study was conducted to assess the activites of antenatal care (ANC) clinics at a training health centre in Northwest Ethiopia. The records of 364 women who attended ANC at Debark Health Center between September 1995 and November 1996 were reviewed. Data were collected on socio-demographic variables and different risk factors of pregnancy. Only one mother began attendance in the first trimester. The mean frequency of visits was 3 + 2.3. The weights heights, and blood...

A study examined the impact of civic education programs on political participation and democratic attitudes among adults and high school students in South Africa. The study represents an extension of a similar assessment of civic education programs in the Dominican Republic and Poland. Questionnaires were administered by a professional survey company to samples of individuals who had been trained in different civic education programs. The questionnaires were designed to measure individuals'...

This study investigates gender differences in the determinants of several schooling indicators in Conakry, Guinea, using ordered and binary probit models incorporating household-level random effects. Such indicators include grade attainment, current enrollment, and withdrawal from school. The survey, which was conducted on 1725 households, contains detailed information on a wide range of socioeconomic factors such as education, labor force activity and earnings, assets and health. Results...

This study was undertaken to determine the possible health risk associated with raw wastewater use in agricultural purposes, particularly, the transmission of parasite infections among children of five regions in Beni-Mellal, Morocco. In a randomly-selected sample of 1343 children, 740 of them were from five regions using raw wastewater for agriculture, and 603 were from 4 control regions that do not practice wastewater irrigation. One or more parasite infections were identified in 50.8% of...

A community intervention trial was undertaken in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa to evaluate the effectiveness of a high school drama-in-education programme. Seven pairs of secondary schools were randomized to receive either written information about HIV/AIDS or the drama programme. Questionnaire surveys of knowledge, attitude and behaviour were compared before and 6 months after the interventions. One thousand and eighty students participated in the first survey and 699 in the second....

The private sector's role in education has been the subject of much analysis and policy debate in recent years. In developing countries, public resources for education are limited and governments have traditionnally relied on private education, particularly at the post-basic levels, to meet the excess demand for education. Even when excess demand is not a major issue, advocates of private education note that private schools can be more efficient than their public sector counterparts,...

Previous articleNext article No AccessExpansion of Private Secondary Education: Lessons from Recent Experience in TanzaniaGérard Lassibille, Jee-Peng Tan, and Suleman SumraGérard Lassibille Search for more articles by this author , Jee-Peng Tan Search for more articles by this author , and Suleman Sumra Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail...

HIV prevention through peer education and condom promotion among truck drivers and their sexual partners is described. Trends during an initial 18-month intensive phase, followed by a 24-month maintenance phase, were monitored with surveys. Trends for self-reported condom use were: increase among men (56 to 74%) during the first phase with a decrease (72%) during the maintenance phase. Respective figures for women were 51%, 91% and 70%. Multivariate analyses revealed that men most likely to...

Journal Article Promises of Access and Inclusion: Online Education in Africa Get access Anthony Lelliott, Anthony Lelliott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Shirley Pendlebury, Shirley Pendlebury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Penny Enslin Penny Enslin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 34, Issue 1, February 2000, Pages 41–52,...

This article reports the results of a peer-led HIV prevention education and condom promotion program among transport workers in Kaolack, Senegal. As part of a 2-year longitudinal follow-up study, changes in men's AIDS-related knowledge, sexual behavior, condom use, and perceived barriers to condom use were evaluated by self-reports obtained from a systematic sample of transport workers interviewed before and after intervention. In addition to men's self-reports, preintervention and...

This is an investigation into the risk factors that could discriminate childhood sexual abuse (CSA) from non-abuse in the Northern Province (South Africa).414 students in standard 9 and 10 in three secondary schools in the province filled-in a retrospective self-rating questionnaire in a classroom setting. Questionnaires included modified and adapted questions from the Finkelhor's (1979) Risk Factor Checklist, and asked for physical contact forms of sexual abusive experiences of participants...

Pre- and post-1991 data on variables such as school enrolments, dropout rates, Zimbabwe junior certificate and 'O level examination entries were compared on the basis of gender and tested to determine the effects of the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) on secondary school girls. The results of this study show that there were statistically significant differences in the enrolment rates of boys and girls, a widening gender disparity in dropout rates as well as statistically...

The greenhouse effect is expected to cause high temperature increase globally and this will lead to an increase in precipitation in some regions while other regions will experience reduced precipitation. Therefore, countries are engaged in the exercise of evaluating the impact of expected climate change on water resources using General Circulation Models (GCM) and hydrologic models. The WatBall model has been found appropriate for the evaluation of the impact of climate on water resources....