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Curriculum mapping is a concept that is reasonably well documented in mapping literature. However, many existing curriculum mapping processes do not address discipline-specific curriculum mapping that assists academics to develop their Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) through the use of content representations (CoRe). This article, therefore, intends to address this gap and develop a mapping template that embeds PCK, through the use of a systematic review of the literature method to...

The study was designed to identify the relationship between teacher attitudes towards the use of the achievement file as an alternative assessment tool in schools of south of Nablus - Palestine. The study sample consisted of (523) teachers and teachers from the south schools selected by class method. The researcher used the descriptive analytical method and the questionnaire as a study tool.The study found that there are statistically significant differences at the level of (a≤0.05) in...

Purpose: This study investigated teachers’ perception on the influence of dilapidated school structures on the academic performance of pupils in primary schools in Kogi State. Seven research questions guided the study which clustered on the state of dilapidation, pupils’ achievement and their relationships across the three Senatorial Districts of the State. One research hypothesis was stated for the study to ascertain the significance or otherwise of the relationship between dilapidated...

Background The cost of university presents various challenges with regards to students’ daily learning activities. This is particularly evident in developing countries, where higher education students face acute financial problems that greatly affect their daily educational activities. In Ethiopia, public university students do benefit from governmental cost-sharing programs. Moreover, health sciences students have additional costs during their clinical placements that are above the common...

Background In many countries, there is evidence that intimate partner violence is prevalent among young women. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and the factors associated with intimate partner violence in young women (aged 15–24 years) attending secondary schools in Maputo, Mozambique. Method Using a probability proportional sampling strategy, 431 participants were recruited, and the data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Binary and multivariate logistic...

Introduction Soil transmitted helminths (STH) can affect over 50% of children in some parts of Tanzania. Control measures involve annual deworming campaigns in schools, but re-infection is rapid. This paper presents the design and baseline survey results of an ongoing school-based cluster-randomised controlled trial in Kagera region, NW Tanzania. The trial aims to determine whether the effect of routine deworming on the prevalence of Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura infections...

Abstract Background: Forests are naturally endowed to combat climate change by protecting people and livelihoods as well as creating a base for sustainable economic and social development. But this natural mechanism is often hampered by anthropogenic activities. It is therefore imperative to take measures that are environmentally sustainable not only for mitigation but also for its adaptation. This study was carried out to assess the role of Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) as an...

Discussions and responses related to climate change have gained currency in Southern Africa in the last decade, especially in the social sciences and policy studies.However, it seems as if social work has not appropriately responded to the challenges of climate change, despite its humanitarian and social justice mission.As climate change accelerates, social work has not entirely found ways and means to help individuals, families, groups and communities to adapt to its ramifications.This...

This article highlights how English language teachers professional development and training programmes fosters teachers’ professional competences in the teaching of the subject. English Language is vital in developing communication and social skills in learners as it does empower learners to compete favorably with their peers around the world. The ex-post factor approach of the survey design was adopted in the study. A random sampling technique was used to select twenty primary schools in...

The increased popularity of complementary medicine has created the need for patients to receive accurate information from nurses who are front-line healthcare providers. Studies have demonstrated that patients are more likely to discuss other medication and therapy use with nurses, rather than with general practitioners or other health professionals. It is, therefore, important to determine nurses' knowledge and attitudes towards complementary medicine.The aim of this study was to determine...

Abstract Calls for implementation of environmental flows have been growing over the past 20 years, and their implementation is now being recognized. The need for such assessments to occur in conjunction with maintenance of environmental water temperatures has also been emphasized. When the costs of departures from natural thermal regimes are considered, this moves from being an academic exercise to a tangible management imperative. Pest outbreaks of aquatic macroinvertebrates typically occur...

Abstract Background: Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in over 100 countries. Despite the high burden of the problem, the survival status and the predictors for mortality are not yet determined well in Ethiopia. Therefore, we aimed to determine the survival and predictors of mortality among breast cancer patients diagnosed from 2013-2018 at Hawassa comprehensive specialized and teaching hospital and private oncology clinic in Southern...

JAE Special Issue: Education and Labour Market Outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa Francis Teal Francis Teal Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Corresponding author: Francis Teal. E-mail: francis.teal@economics.ox.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of African Economies, Volume 30, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 1–12, https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejaa014 Published: 09 December 2020 Article history...

Universal health coverage (UHC) means access to promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health services for all without financial hardship.1 UHC is embedded in the right to h...

Introduction: Following a school milk feeding program in Southwest Uganda, we initiated a probiotic yogurt school feeding program in the same region in 2018. In order to investigate the potential health benefits from probiotic yogurt we conducted an observational study, where we compared the effect of the consumption of locally produced probiotic yogurt containing Lactobacillus rhamnosus yoba 2012 to milk in pre-primary schoolchildren from different schools on the occurrence of respiratory...

           The current study aimed at the empirical verification of some hypotheses of the Solaimanya theory of social and emotional learning disabilities as a new Arab discourse in the Egyptian environment for primary school pupils through modeling the causal relationships between them and checking the possibility of arriving at a causal structural model that explains the nature of the relationship between independent variables (lack of...

Background: Contraceptive use is one of the effective means for preventing unintended pregnancies and is highly affected by cultural and social demographic background especially in premarital or unmarried females. Rwanda has made great effort to promote women’s health and to decrease the maternal mortality and morbidity, but there is still a long journey to prevent post abortion morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to assess knowledge, attitude and practices towards contraceptive use...

Abstract This chapter deals with the problem of sorghum farmers’ adaptation to climate change in the semiarid region of Cameroon. Its general objective is to compare the various adaptation strategies’ typologies and to characterize the sorghum farmers’ adaptation strategies on the basis of the suitable one. The stratified random sampling method was used to select the sites, which consist of twenty (20) villages, and the sample, which consists of six hundred (600) farm household heads. After...

The main purpose of this study is to assess the role of tertiary institutions in impacting innovation competence among graduating students in the engineering discipline. To achieve this aim, two research questions were investigated: First, we examine if the graduating students possess some key innovative competence qualities innovative competence which include qualities such as creativity, leadership, self-efficacy, energy and risk propensity. Secondly, we investigate the key elements of...