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In higher education institutions various VLSs have been formally adopted to support online teaching and learning. However, there has been little research on patterns of VLS use among educators. The purpose of the research was to provide a descriptive analysis of VLS feature usage, and associated challenges at two South African higher education institutions. A case study research strategy was adopted, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches to data collection and analysis. Survey...

There are no empirical studies that describe factors that may influence the development of integrated clinical reasoning skills in dental education. Hence, this study examines the association between outcomes of clinical reasoning in relation with differences in instructional design and student factors.Progress test scores, including diagnostic and treatment planning scores, of fourth and fifth year dental students (2009-2011) at the University of Pretoria, South Africa served as the outcome...

This study examined the influence of personality types and socio-demographic characteristics on work-study of students at Covenant University, Ota.The study used questionnaires to collect information from 100 students who participated in the programme in 2014/2015 academic session.The chi-x 2 result of 12.30 for the variable responses showed that the age and the sex of students influenced their participation in work study programme with chi-x 2 (29.80), degree of freedom 4 and significance...

This case study was conducted in Ghana to explore the arenas available for student participation in decision making in public senior high schools. In Ghana, students are considered stakeholders and collaborators in decision-making alongside parents, teachers, and community members. This role is of particular importance since their participation equips them with the attributes and skills needed for active citizenship. Student Representative Councils (SRCs) are established in all public senior...

Knowledge of the prevalence and causes of visual impairment (VI) amongst hospital patients is useful in planning preventive programmes and provision of eye-care services for residents in the surrounding communities.The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and causes of VI amongst eye clinic patients at Nkhensani Hospital. The relationship between VI and age was also investigated.Nkhensani Hospital in the Greater Giyani subdistrict municipality, Mopani district, Limpopo Province,...

World Health Organization recommendations for the timing and target population for mass drug administration (MDA) for schistosomiasis are based on the prevalence of infection in school children within a given community. In a large study comparing MDA approaches for Schistosoma mansoni control, we evaluated whether prevalence of infection and egg burdens in 9- to 12-year-old students reflected infection levels in young children and adults in the same community. Cross-sectional surveys of...

O artigo e resultado de uma pesquisa de Mestrado com objetivo de cartografar e problematizar processos de producao dos Mascarados do Congo, e seus atravessamentos com redes de conversacoes cotidianas escolares. O aporte metodologico e teorico foi inspirado na pesquisa em Educacao Ambiental (EA) e cartografica e nos estudos com os cotidianos, envolvendo professores, estudantes, artesao, congueiros, com diario de campo, fotografias, gravacoes e transcricoes. Com a pesquisa capturamos conversas...

Worldwide, in Africa and in South Africa, the importance of the doctorate has increased disproportionately in relation to its share of the overall graduate output over the past decade. This heightened attention has not only been concerned with the traditional role of the PhD, namely the provision of future academics; rather, it has focused on the increasingly important role that higher education ? and, particularly, high-level skills ? is perceived to play in national development and the...

This is a quasi-experimental pre-post assessment study utilizing an anonymous self-administered questionnaire to assess Egyptian medical students’ awareness about responsible conduct of research (RCR) and research ethics. Students’ were assessed before and after an RCR awareness campaign. Our results showed that most of the pre-campaign respondents were not familiar with the basic principles and terms of RCR. An increase in the awareness about RCR across all discussed topics was noted...

The nature and structure of the school environment has the potential to shape children's health and well being. Few studies have explored the importance of school-level factors in explaining a child's likelihood of experiencing violence from school staff, particularly in low-resource settings such as Uganda.To quantify to what extent a student's risk of violence is determined by school-level factors we fitted multilevel logistic regression models to investigate associations and present...

Purpose:The study examined adolescents' opinion on premarital sex in selected secondary schools in Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State. Method:A cross sectional descriptive survey design was used.The sample size was 313 senior secondary school students from four public secondary schools in Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State.Simple random sampling technique was used to select 313 students from 4 schools in Yakurr Local Government Area.Instrument for data...

In order to function in the increasingly complex healthcare environment, every nurse is required to have basic computer competencies, be able to access, use and evaluate relevant nursing information and possess information management skills.Nurse Faculty, Nurse/Midwife educators are vested with the responsibility of producing the crop of nurses who have the capabilities to fit into the current trend of nursing practice.Literature has shown that comprehensive informatics content is lacking in...

This paper examines the influence of teachers' learning styles on their classroom teaching and learning practices.The reported mixed method study was conducted in various school districts in a large province in South Africa.The data was collected with the use of questionnaires administered to primary school natural science teachers and classroom observations made during a science lesson.The study examined the preferred learning styles of primary school science teachers.It then investigated...

Background: Ethiopia is one of the Sub-Saharan Africa countries highly affected by HIV epidemics. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) alters and reduces progression to AIDS and prolongs and improves the quality of life among HIV infected population. For ART, at least 95% adherence is required to prevent the development of drug resistant viral strains. Non-adherence to ART may result in regimen failure, immune suppression and emergence of resistant viral strains, limited future treatment options,...

The ability to read for meaning and pleasure is arguably the most important skill children learn in primary school. One integral component of learning to read is Oral Reading Fluency (ORF), defined as the ability to read text quickly, accurately, and with meaningful expression. Although widely acknowledged in the literature as important, to date there have been no large-scale studies on ORF in English in South Africa, despite this being the language of learning and teaching for 80% of ESL...