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One of the preoccupations of Rwandan educational leaders is to provide schools with enough teaching materials in order to increase students’ academic performance. This report describes the influence of the availability of teaching material on students’ academic performance. The study used quantitative research and employed a correlation research design. The questionnaires were distributed to 339 students at a university in Rwanda selected through purposive sampling. Among the respondents,...
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WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM STUDYING 38 000 LEARNING AND STUDY STRATEGY PROFILES: EXPLORING LEARNING AND STUDY STRATEGIES AMONG SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
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Appears in: EDULEARN21 Proceedings Publication year: 2021Pages: 2171-2174ISBN: 978-84-09-31267-2ISSN: 2340-1117doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2021.0486Conference name: 13th International Conference on Education and New Learning TechnologiesDates: 5-6 July, 2021Location: Online Conference
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Teaching profession has recently been scrutinised by different groups of people and sometimes, head teachers have been demoted because of poor academic performance of pupils in the National Examinations. In a decentralised framework through the Primary School Development Programme (PEDP), the school committees have to oversee the functions of the schools to ensure that teachers are accountable for the pupils' learning. This study investigated how teachers as professionals are accountable for...
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Abstract Despite the growing interest in creating trauma-informed schools, including for trauma-affected refugee students, little research has focused on the perspectives of teachers supporting these youths. This qualitative study focused on one school district in southwestern Ontario, Canada; it examined 11 narratives from seven teachers that centered on Syrian refugee student trauma disclosures in the classroom. Two full narratives are provided to illustrate the key thematic findings:...
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<h2>Abstract</h2> Little Akaki River drains residential, industrial, and agricultural irrigation areas of Addis Ababa City Administration and is exposed to point and non-point sources of pollution. The purpose of this study was to identify sources, evaluate the levels of river water pollution, and its implications for environmental and public health. Pollution indices and multivariate statistical analyses were used to determine sources and levels of the river water pollution. Trace metals...
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High levels of student engagement, particularly in first-year university students are associated with a wide range of educational practices and conditions including students’ social and academic integration into the institutions of higher education. These educational practices link student engagement with students’ performance to students’ academic achievement leading to graduate throughputs. The study sought to understand first-year student experiences of the university’s ability to provide...
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The rationale for promoting interactive whiteboard (IWB) in educational settings was to encourage interactive whole-class teaching and learning. The interactive teaching and learning of the IWB is encouraged where learners use finger-touch, write, draw, drag an object, manipulate text or shape on the IWB. IWB inspires teachers to re-think their approaches to teaching and learning. In a study conducted in Turkey, it was reported that the IWB encourages participation in the lesson and create...
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LONE VOICE FROM THE FRONTLINE: FEMALE PRINCIPAL’S LIVED EXPERIENCES REGARDING PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOL SYSTEMS
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EMPLOYING CRITICAL REFLECTION AS AN ASSESSMENT TOOL: A CASE AT A SOUTH AFRICAN HIGHER INSTITUTION OF LEARNING
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Contaminated drinking water causes morbidity and mortality worldwide, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Drinking water quality has been studied extensively in household settings, but little research is available on drinking water quality in schools. School settings are of particular importance, because children are more susceptible than adults to a variety of diseases from contaminated drinking water. Many school water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) interventions have been...
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This paper applies two-stage least square (2SLS) model to quantify the impact of school feeding programme (SFP) on the education and health outcomes of South African children. The paper also estimates the spillover effects of SFP on parents' health spending. The results shows that the SFP has a significant effect, improving illness, school attendance, and academic achievement. The impact of SFP is higher in rural regions than in urban settings and larger in boys than in girls. Notably, the...
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Community livelihood assets are important in enhancing household adaptive capacity and resilience to the impact of climate change. This paper examined the vulnerability of community livelihood assets to the impacts of climate change using Ileje District, in south-western Tanzania as a case study. Random sampling was used to select four villages, out of which two villages were sampled from midland and two from highland established agro ecological zones, constituting a total sample size of 308...
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This article offers policymakers and researchers pragmatic and sustainable approaches to identify and mitigate conflict threats by looking beyond p-values and plausible instruments. We argue that predicting conflict successfully depends on the choice of algorithms, which, if chosen accurately, can reduce economic and social instabilities caused by post-conflict reconstruction. After collating data with variables linked to conflict, we used a grid level dataset of 5928 observations spanning...
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This study explored how Open and Distance eLearning (ODeL) system is enhancing employment creation and extreme poverty eradication in Zimbabwe. Poverty is a challenge in developing countries in the presence of unemployment and lack of education. This study aimed to put into perspective the strides made by ODeL institutions in Zimbabwe towards extreme poverty eradication through TVET in the education system. Data were collected from purposively selected 20 ODeL graduates including;...