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The South African education scene is characterised by principals who come from the apartheid era where they manage the school alone in an authoritarian manner.Old approaches to school management have changed because the society has also changed.There is a shift from top-down style of leadership to shared or distributed leadership which requires the empowerment of those in managerial positions in schools.The principal is expected to manage the school together with significant stakeholders.In...

Leadership plays an essential role in any education development and quality of students' academic performance.In many parts of the world, including the developed and developing countries, there is the recognition that schools require influential leaders and managers if they are to provide the best possible education for their students.This study explores the relationship between transformational leadership and academic performance of secondary school students in Kirinyaga County.Education...

Transformational leadership is an ideal attribute for principals in schools and the leadership dimension creates an environment in which learners can thrive academically and in all spheres of school life. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of principals’ inspirational motivation on student academic performance in Kenya Certificate Secondary Examination (K.C.S.E) in Makueni County, Kenya. The objective that guided the study was to: establish how principals’...

Summary Climate change presents a particularly complex challenge in the context of flyway scale conservation of migratory bird species as it requires coordinated action by multiple countries along these species’ migratory routes. Coordinating conservation responses requires understanding the vulnerability of species and their habitats to climate change at the flyway scale throughout each species’ annual cycle. To contribute to such understanding, we used species distribution models to assess...

This study explored the contextual relevance of Industrial Psychology training in a South African university, focussing on its responsiveness to contemporary multi-cultural work settings. Our purposive sample of informants (n = 15, female = 66.67%, South African black citizens = 73.33%) comprised postgraduate students (n = 6), industrial psychology alumni (n = 4), and lecturers (n = 5). We interviewed the informants on their perception of the Industrial Psychology education and training’s...

The year 2021 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The enactment of the instrument has been lauded as ground-breaking, as it contains provisions that seek to safeguard the world’s largest minority group, persons with disabilities (PwDs). The instrument is perceived as having triggered normative and institutional safeguards at the national, regional, and international levels with the aim of empowering this population. Despite...

The study investigated parenting styles as a correlate of academic achievement of primary school pupils. Five research questions and five research hypotheses guided the study. The study made use of the survey research design. The research was done in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State. The sample of the study constituted of 200 primary five pupils. The instrument titled the Scale of Parenting Style (SPS) questionnaire developed by Gafoor and Kurukkan (2014) was adopted for...

Sex education is a vital aspect of health education. It provides factual knowledge to assist adolescents to avoid sex related problems. Due to the sensitive nature of sex education many adolescents rely on internet resources for information on sex education because it offers information in a confidential manner. The study assessed and compared the determinants of internet based resources for sex education among in and out of school adolescents in Kogi State. The study was comparative...

IntroductionIn Kenya, Chemistry Education at secondary school level is aimed at preparing learners to deal with the contemporary environmental challenges in society.It also prepares learners for careers such as engineering, medicine, body therapy, education, pharmacy and food technology.The secondary school Chemistry objectives as outlined by Kenya Institute of Education (2002) include among others to: -select and handle appropriate apparatus for use in experimental work and to make accurate...

This study examined the effects of mastery and conventional learning instructional strategies on students' achievement in economics in Anambra state public secondary schools.Three research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study.Non-equivalent pretest and posttest of quasi-experimental design was employed in the study.The population for this study consisted of 2384senior secondary one (SS1) students in the 47 public secondary schools in Aguata Education Zone of Anambra State.A...

Recently, there has been a significant interest in the possibility of continued disruption to school learning due to the spiraling COVID-19 crisis worldwide. Consequently, online learning has been widely adopted.

This study sought to examine the influence of Performance Appraisal Feedback on service delivery amongst public secondary school teachers in Kericho County.The study was based on the Goal Setting Theory.Descriptive research design was adopted.The study was conducted in Londiani Sub-County, Kericho County with a target population of 327 comprising of 285 secondary school teachers employed by the TSC, 41 Principals and the TSC Sub County director.The sample comprised of 71 teachers, 41...

This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and correlates of psychological distress among adolescent school children in Liberia. We analysed data from a cross-sectional nationally representative sample of 2 744 school adolescents (median: 18 years) gathered by the Liberia Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS, 2017). Results indicate that the overall prevalence of psychological distress was 24.5%, 27.3% in girls and 21.2% in boys. In adjusted logistic regression analysis, bullying...

This study aimed to estimate the prevalence and correlates of psychological distress among adolescent school children in Liberia. We analysed data from a cross-sectional nationally representative sample of 2 744 school adolescents (median: 18 years) gathered by the Liberia Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS, 2017). Results indicate that the overall prevalence of psychological distress was 24.5%, 27.3% in girls and 21.2% in boys. In adjusted logistic regression analysis, bullying...

The dominant nature of Western models of teacher education in African universities has become a subject of great concern. Research reveals that teacher education curriculum models in such universities are either a wholesale importation or partial duplication of some of the dominant models of teacher preparation especially the Teachers College, Columbia and University of Wisconsin, Madison models. Accordingly, such curricula are ostensibly non-African in nature. Consequently, there is a...

The study was carried to assess students’ environmental and sustainability literacy at a selected institution of higher learning in Zimbabwe. A descriptive cross-sectional design was used. The questionnaire used was validated, and the Cronbach’s alpha was used to determine reliability (α = 0.767). Purposive, stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 70 respondents for the study from a population of 1352. The study revealed that the level of knowledge was mediocre,...

This study explored Midwestern US teachers’ raciolinguistic attitudes toward English learners. Two research questions guided the study: “How did teachers perceive racism and linguicism” and “How did a professional training influence teachers’ awareness of them?” Critical race theory was used to examine how racism evolved into racialized linguicism. Data analysis demonstrated that teachers tended to conflate the experiences of African American students and English learners, even though they...