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This paper examines the measurement of student achievement in the mother tongue and in a second language used for instruction in primary schools in Burundi. Data were obtained from a probability sample of forty-seven schools in twenty-four school directorships in rural areas, and from about two thousand (1,946) grade 6 students in 1989. The students were tested in language arts, mathematics, and science/agriculture in French as well as in their mother tongue, Kirundi. Students performed...
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In this paper two approaches have been used for delineating a magnitude scale for local and near earthquakes of Aswan High Dam Lake (Aswan, Egypt), depending on either the total duration of oscillation or the maximum S-wave amplitude. In using the first approach, 19 local and near earthquakes in the period from 1982 to 1987 recorded by the Aswan Seismic Network were collected. A relation between F—P's (duration) recorded at the GMR station and their magnitudes reported by ISC Bulletin has...
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This paper presents a survey of Nigerian female students to determine their motivations for taking up journalism training. The study found that almost as many female as male students enrol in the country's journalism training institutions at the moment - which factor should advance women's representation in the media. Moreover, most of the female students surveyed consider journalism to be a profession as much suited for women as for men. However, it finds marital status to be an important...
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Abstract This paper examines the current status of inservice education for teachers in Nigeria with particular reference to Cross River and Akwa Ibom States. It identifies three main approaches to teacher inservice education in the two states of Nigeria, viz. the central office approach, the long vacation (sandwich) programme and Associateship Certificate in Education‐‐part‐time evening programme distance learning approach. Inservice teacher education is seen as an effective means of...
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Social relations around the handicapped are generally presented in terms of economic dependence and social inadaptation. This point of view leads to give greater importance, especially in Africa, to studying the way in which group and society help the physically or mentally ill. Actually, this approach does not give a complete account about the real situation of the handicapped in social relations of production and reproduction. From a series of in-depth interviews conducted in handicapped...
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This paper reports on the first qualitative part of a study designed to investigate factors related to the use of condoms among African-American and Hispanic adolescents and young adults in Detroit. This paper describes who young, urban, African-American and Hispanic persons talk to about AIDS and condoms and what they are learning. The paper provides data on attitudes and beliefs about AIDS and condoms that are needed for further research and for prevention programs.A summary of qualitative...
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Attempting to identify factors that boost the effectiveness of Third World schools, policymakers and researchers often focus on basic material inputs (such as textbooks, desks, or expenditures). Inquiry within the West continues to shift away from this production-function metaphor, instead focusing on achievement effects stemming from teacher quality and teaching practices. Yet these two aspects of school effectiveness have received little empirical attention in the Third World. This paper...
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This article reports a comparative study of alcohol-related problems in two groups of Papua New Guinean youth. The first group consists of 25 undergraduate students of the University of Papua New Guinea. The second group consists of 25 staff members of the Post and Telecommunications Corporation (PTC). The research subjects in both groups were selected at random. The instrument used for the study is the Brief (10 item questions) Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST). Demographic data...