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The study presented here examined school context as a moderator in the relation between daily perceptions of racial discrimination and depressive symptoms. The sample included 75 Black adolescents who completed daily surveys for 14 days. The results indicated that approximately 97% of adolescents reported experiencing at least one discriminatory experience over the 2-week period. During the daily diary period, the 2-week average was 26 discriminatory experiences with a daily average of 2.5...

Author(s): Sedillo, Rebecca Luisa | Advisor(s): Thompson, Lisa | Abstract: Introduction: The purpose of this study was to explore palliative care provider self-competence, ethical concerns and priorities for education and training in an inpatient hospice setting in Kenya. Momentum is building in sub-Saharan Africa to improve the provision of palliative care services. However, provider perspectives are poorly understood. We hypothesized that mean self-competence and ethical concerns scores...

The present study investigates the use of vocabulary learning strategies used by 124 Moroccan university students of English as a foreign language, 60 males and 64 females with a consideration of gender and proficiency.Strategy use is assessed through the SILL* (Oxford, 1990), and proficiency is determined by the subjects' study level.The findings are that the reported frequency of strategy use is moderate overall, with the students reporting most frequent use of compensation strategies and...

Premenstrual syndrome is a psycho-neuro-endocrine disorder having biological, psychic and social parameters. It is a serious health problem affecting the young females and any women in a reproductive age group. The recurrent nature of this problem has potential impact on the daily lives of women; making a central issue in women well-being. Although it has been widely studied in many countries only limited studies have been conducted in Ethiopia and the study area in particular. To determine...

Testing for HIV during pregnancy provides a useful opportunity to institute treatment for HIV as required as well as protect the unborn baby. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of health education on the willingness of antenatal attendees to be screened for HIV.This was a quasiexperimental study involving the sequential enrolment of 122 pregnant women attending antenatal care who were at a gestational age of between 13 and 28 weeks for the study group and subsequent enrolment...

Historically, Zambian pupils have performed poorly on regional and national literacy examinations despite the best efforts of various stakeholders. The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in regular classroom instruction and two treatment approaches, a clinician-directed approach and a home program, in literacy acquisition in 7 participants from Lusaka, Zambia. This is a single-subject multiple baseline study. The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills...

Although there is an increase in the prevalence of bullying in school settings in Botswana, research on the problem is very limited. In order to refine our understanding of bullying in school settings, we need to equally explore the extent of bullying in schools located in urban and rural areas, factors that are linked to bullying and students’ and the school staff’s knowledge and perceptions of bullying. Such an investigation will aid in generation of interventions that holistically address...

Although there is an increase in prevalence of bullying in school settings in Botswana, research on the problem is very limited. In order to refine our understanding of bullying in school settings, we need to equally explore the extent of bullying in schools located in urban and rural areas, factors that are linked to bullying and students’ and the school staff’s knowledge and perceptions of bullying. Such an investigation will aid in generation of interventions that holistically address the...

Corresponding author* Abstract: Background: This study set out to determine the impact of home gardens on nutrient intake, access to food and dietary diversity of pre-school children. Objective: To determine the impact of home gardens on nutrient intake, access to food and dietary diversity of pre-school children in an informal settlement in Gauteng, South Africa. Design: Children aged two to five years (n=40) whose caregivers participated in a garden project participated in this study. Data...

The educational reform movement designed to improve quality education for all children in Tanzania carries significant meaning and at the same time lacks specifics. The term “quality” is relative, and perhaps the complexity creates difficulty for grasping significance when the criteria for “monitoring” are unknown. Speaking of “quality education” in the polarized climate of education reform with one that advocates for “inclusion” and the other that values for “individual capabilities” (Tikly...

The role of civil service in socio-economic and political development of a country is unquestionable. In some countries, however, the civil service is not aligned with the prevailing ideological, political and economic changes as well as management theories. Moreover, in some countries, especially in Africa, the civil service is blamed as a major cause for social and political upheavals and economic crises because of institutional and capacity weakness. As a result, it is common to see many...

The Gambia has shifted the focus of its education reforms from school attendance to student learning. This shift came with a stronger assessment system to measure learning. This paper highlights how assessment data are being used in The Gambia to contribute to education quality and learning. While assessment data were used mainly for selection purposes in the past, the emphasis now is on monitoring and supporting learning. Greater data availability has allowed for greater school...

The Gambia has shifted the focus of its education reforms from school attendance to student learning. This shift came with a stronger assessment system to measure learning. This paper highlights how assessment data are being used in The Gambia to contribute to education quality and learning. While assessment data were used mainly for selection purposes in the past, the emphasis now is on monitoring and supporting learning. Greater data availability has allowed for greater school...

Aims: Establish profiles of young "at risk" of injuries, first, on an overall point of view and, secondly, for some types of injuries (sport, home, road traffic, school and work injuries).Methods: We have taken nearly 50 variables into consideration: 17 variables for construction of the socioeconomic status, 9 variables for the investigation of symptoms, 11 concerning drugs, 5 for healthy habits, 3 for investigating the violence behavior, 4 concerning the school, 3 for subjective health and...

This paper evaluates the Agro-Ecological Zone (AEZ) methods for understanding agriculture and measuring the impacts of climate change on agriculture with the observed farming decisions in sub-Saharan Africa. The Agro-Ecological Zone (AEZ) method is explained using the concept of the Length of Growing Period (LGP) and the AEZ classification of the African continent. Farmers’ decisions are obtained from the World Bank household surveys of around 8000 farms across 9 sub-Saharan countries. The...

Situating late colonial Sudan within the wider British Empire, this chapter explores an understudied field in the scholarship on Sudan and empire: history teaching, namely history as a school subject that was theorized by educators and practiced by teachers and pupils in the 1940s and 1950s. Although not a colonial territory stricto sensu, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899-1956) was closely connected to other British dependencies in the educational sphere. Knowledge, debates and opinions on...