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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST SCORES AMONG NIGERIAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND TEACHER BELIEFS ABOUT LANGUAGE TEACHING AND THEIR CLASSROOM PRACTICES

Although schools have been identified as important settings in which young people's sexual and reproductive health (SRH) can be promoted, there has been limited research into the role of teachers in delivering sex education programmes. This paper describes findings from a qualitative study of teachers' beliefs and attitudes towards young people's SRH in a Ugandan secondary school, and discusses the ways in which conservative attitudes to young people's sexual activity and an adherence to...

Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa have been disadvantaged in the formal education sector relative to Christians since the colonial period. Data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) shows a nearly ubiquitous gap in Muslim educational attainment across Africa, but the magnitude of this inequality in educational attainment varies across countries and over time. Previous work in political science and economics has explored the eect of democracy, ethnic favoritism, and income on educational...

The underlying theme of the Equity Principle in the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM, 2000) is all students can learn mathematics. Unfortunately, many African American students are consistently demonstrating low mathematical achievement and many educators refuse to acknowledge racial inequities faced by African Americans in the mathematics classroom. In this qualitative study, twelve elementary mathematics teachers from four school districts in the Midwest are...

IntroductionHistorically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play a critical role in the educational experiences of African Americans. Of the top 20 leading producers of African American bachelor's degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, all but three are HBCUs (Borden & Brown 2004). In 2010, HBCUs were the source of 17.6% of all bachelor's degrees to African Americans but 19.2% of the bachelor's degrees to African Americans in STEM fields. HBCUs are...

The dormitories of historically white higher learning institutes are becoming diverse in South Africa We were interested in how white students cope with this increased diversity. We consider diversity and multiculturalism as acculturation issues and were interested in how acculturation conditions impact on psychological acculturation outcomes of white students. We propose a dual process model of diversity, consisting of facilitating acculturation resources that lead to satisfaction with life...

Worldwide average temperatures have risen during the past century, a change that is most prominent and rapid at high altitudes and latitudes. The composition and extension of the temperature sensitive treelines within these zones are potentially responsive to climate warming. In contrast to dynamics at higher northern latitudes, treeline dynamics in the tropics are scarcely investigated. The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct the extent of the upper Erica Arborea limit since the 1960s...

Professional nurses in South Africa render autonomous primary healthcare. Therefore it is crucial that student nurses should be competent in the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains upon completion of their studies. Experiential learning should provide opportunities to integrate theory and practice and to meet the professional and critical outcomes as stated in the curriculum. A qualitative research design was used to describe the opinions of the final-year student nurses regarding...

(2013). Israel's Relations with Egypt and Turkey during the Arab Spring: Weathering the Storm. Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 29-42.

Despite previous research and recommendations in South Africa, secondary-school teachers still encounter economic, social and cultural challenges in implementing differentiated learning activities in the classroom. The diversity of learners with learning barriers inevitably leads to an increase in workload for the teachers. This article draws on data generated from the research conducted in South Africa and from questionnaires completed by secondary-school teachers who identified existing...

The first of three books in IFPRI’s climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa — Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo — and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. West Africa’s population is...

Farmers in Africa are facing climate change and challenging rural livelihoods while maintaining agricultural systems that are not resilient. By 2050 the mean estimates of production of key staple crops in Africa such as maize, sorghum, millet, groundnut, and cassava are expected to decrease by between 8 and 22 percent (Schlenker and Lobell 2010). In Kenya, although projections of rainfall do not show dramatic decreases, the distribution of impacts is clearly negative for most crops. As...

Substance use disorders are prevalent in Nigeria. The number of available specialist health providers is inadequate to fill the treatment gap. Interventions can be provided by nonspecialist health providers and have been found to be beneficial. However, attitudes toward substance misuse and misusers can impede the provision of this service. We aimed to determine attitudes of medical trainees toward substance use by utilizing a modified form of the Substance Abuse Attitude Scale (SAAS)....

In order to meet the heightened multiple expectations now placed on schools to have engaged teachers and students, schools have turned to collaboration and benchmarking. The problem is that, despite adoption of these techniques in the Western region, academic performance remains dismal. The main objective of this study was therefore, to establish the effect of collaboration and benchmarking on secondary schools’ mean scores in the Western Region. The study adopted a descriptive survey design...

A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

When natural disasters strike in developing countries, households are often forced to choose between preserving assets or consumption: either can result in permanent consequences. In this paper we ask: can insurance transfer risk in a way that reduces the need for households to rely on costly coping strategies that undermine their future productivity? Since 2010, pastoralists in northern Kenya have had access to a novel index-based drought insurance product. We analyze the impact of a...