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Teaching is an important profession in the sense that all other professions such as accounting, medicine, engineering, law, architecture, etc. depend on it. For that reason, it is crucial that teachers be properly trained and highly motivated. Teacher preparation programmes have been criticised on a number of fronts such as weak coordination, focus heavily on the process of teaching and less on the subject content, and for licensing teachers without having demonstrated mastery of the subject...
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The student perspective on teaching and learning is too often neglected or underrated in educational research. The aim of the study was to find out what qualities students valued from their teachers. More specifically, what are qualities of good teachers as perceived by the students? What is the relationship between the subjects taught and the qualities? Are there any gender differences in the perceptions of the students? 910 students took part in the survey. The study found that indeed high...
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The effects of living on campus on educational gains were estimated for a sample of African American college students. This study also examined the effects of specific residence hall experiences on African American students' educational gains in college. Controlling for an extensive array of demographic characteristics, institutional characteristics, and academic and nonacademic experiences in college, the results indicated that African American students who lived on campus reported...
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Selection of drought tolerant wheat genotypes for Arid and Semi-arid lands (ASALS) of Kenya, which consist of 83% of total land area, can provide alternative agricultural land for expansion. To reduce cost of dryland research, simulated drought under a rain shelter offers a good alternative for screening because marginal areas are vast and widespread. Four moisture regimes which simulated terminal, early, mid- and late- season droughts were created under the mobile rain shelter at Njoro in...
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The main research objective of this study is to provide a detailed empirical assessment of the economic impacts of climate policy in Tunisia, considering both costs and benefits. For this purpose, we tries to evaluate the impact of trade liberalization and regional integration on pollution emissions in Tunisia, and the economic consequences of taxing thirteen categories of effluents, as instrument of pollution abatement policy in Tunisia. A recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium...
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The prevalence of the 35delG mutation in Connexin 26 gene-in thirty-one Egyptian families diagnosed with NSHL-was examined. Each nuclear family had between two to five cases of sensorineural hearing loss, with no symptoms or features suggestive of any other possible etiology. Control subjects were studied to determine the carrier rate of connexin 26 in the general population. All DNA samples were screened for the 35delG mutation using an allele-specific polymerase chain reaction (AS-PCR). We...
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This study is a collaborative research project of the University of Natal-Durban, the Horizons program, and Tulane University. One objective of the study was to contribute to understanding the effectiveness of life skills education in changing behavior in South Africa. The findings indicate substantial short-to-medium-term effects of exposure to life skills education on certain areas of sexual and reproductive health-related knowledge, confidence to use condoms, and condom use behavior....