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This paper reports on an exploration of preservice teachers’ understanding of the quadratic function concept in Zimbabwe. These concepts were taught to preservice teachers studying for a diploma in Education wishing to specialize in the teaching of Ordinary level mathematics. Concerns about high Mathematics failure rate in Zimbabwean Secondary Schools have prompted this investigation into finding out if teachers’ understanding of quadratic function concept could be the cause. The study...

The intent of this study was to find out the influence of teacher attitude on effective implementation of inclusive education policy in public primary schools in Kitale Town, Kenya. The study found teacher attitude had a significant influence on the effective implementation of inclusive education policy. Inclusive education is a form of education wherein all students including special needs (SN) learners attend and are received by their neighbourhood schools in age-appropriate regular...

This study sought to find out in depth the demographics of students in their perspectives on examination cheating in Basic education in Kenya. The target population was 838 university freshmen of 2018/2019 academic year in a selected faith-based University in Kenya. The sample was 272 students. This study was guided by Kohlberg’s theory of moral development and Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior. Descriptive survey research design was used. Questionnaires comprising both closed and...

Shisha smoking has re-emerged in the Middle East in the last two decades and has spread rapidly in these communities. Information about shisha smoking in adolescents in Sudan is deficient. Hence, the aim of this study is to estimate the prevalence of shisha smoking among adolescents and determine the associated factors.This study is a school based cross sectional study among secondary school students in Khartoum State - Sudan that targets both male and female students aged 14-17 years. A...

Abstract This article is based on the assumption that indigenous communities have a capacity to generate knowledge, and this capacity is largely underutilized or peripheralized in mainstream research. In this empirical qualitative study, the author makes a case for employing local non‐Western analytic tools, in addition to Western analytic tools, to develop a fuller understanding of literacy practices in non‐Western spaces. Through an interepistemic synergy approach, the author employed...

Background The educational environment is an important determinant of the success of a successful education program; a conductive environment leads to a better attainment of learning outcomes. The aim of this study was to evaluate medical students’ perceptions of their educational environment at the University of Khartoum with a perspective of identifying areas of strengths and weaknesses for improving the educational environment. Materials and methods This cross-sectional study targeted...

The study aimed at determining the availability of library and information resources for inclusive education of visually impaired primary school pupils in special education centres in South East Nigeria. The population of the study was 129, comprising 125 pupils and 4 librarians in 4 special education centres in the zone. One research question guided the study. Three instruments used for data collection were observation checklist, focus group discussion and interview. Data collected with the...

The study aimed to reveal the reality of the services, which the administrations of Palestine TechnicalUniversity-Kadoori (PTUK) and Al-Quds Open University (AOU) offered to students with disabilities from theirperspectives. To achieve the objective of the study, the researcher designed a questionnaire, which consisted of 34items. It comprised three main areas, including academic services, administrative services, and facilities and mobility.The questionnaires were distributed among a sample...

This study examined the effect of climate change on agricultural output growth in Ethiopia. Co- Integration and Vector Error Correction Model estimation technique and data for the period 1981-2016 was used. Changing in annual mean temperature, annual mean rainfall, carbon dioxide emission and forest depletion were used to attribute variables for climate change. The result of vector error correction model indicate that both in the long-run and short-run, carbon dioxide emissions negatively...

Self-efficacy is one of the major factors believed to considerably influence academic performance of learners in secondary schools. Some institutions and individual students are known to be consistently performing better than others even when there was no difference in their entry behaviour. This trend is witnessed between Kirinyaga and Murang’a counties with Kirinyaga county students out-performing those from Murang’a county with a significant margin in KCSE between 2012 to 2017.  A...

Community-based learning (CBL) is employed as a pedagogical approach in professional programs globally; however, transferability of Eurocentric CBL models and theory to university settings outside the global north is under-examined. Adopting critical hermeneutics as the theoretical and methodological framework, this study explored the meaning of community-based learning (CBL) to Kenyan university students in a human services program and examined the complexity of students’ difficult learning...

The failure to acknowledge and account for environmental externalities or spillovers in climate change adaptation policy, advocacy and programming spaces exercabates the risk of ecological degradation, more so, degradation of land. In particular use of unsuitable water sources for irrigation may increase salinisation risks. However, little if any policy assessments and research effort has been directed at investigating how farmer perceptions mediate spillovers from the ubiquitous irrigation...

As adolescence is a stage in which human beings face once throughout a lifetime and it is the experimental period for this reason risky sexual behavior is common among young people, and it has several sexual and reproductive health consequences. But it doesn't get enough attention the status of risky sexual behavior practice and factors' contributing to it, so this study aimed to identify the prevalence of risky sexual behavior and factors associated with it.From the total respondents 115...

Vocational and Technical Education forms a very key foundation in enabling a nation to achieve aspired MDGs and SDG. Kenya as a country highly depends on technical skills to achieve the Vision 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals. However, this can only be achieved through proper and realistic career counseling information provided by the counseling teachers at the secondary school level. According to KCSE results released every year, the majority of the candidates score below grade C+...

The purpose of this study was to determine the Moderating Effect of Management Control System (MCS) in the relationship between Organisation Processes and Institutional Performance of Technical Training Institutions (TTIs) in Kenya. The study was a cross-sectional survey in nature and used explanatory research design with the population obtained from the TTIs that were registered with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MOEST) and Technical and Vocational Education and...

Depression and anxiety are leading causes of youth disability worldwide, yet our understanding of these conditions in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) youths is limited. Research has been sparse in SSA, and prevalence rates and correlates of these conditions remain scarcely investigated. To help address these gaps, this cross-sectional study assessed the prevalence of adolescent depression and anxiety symptoms in a community sample of high school students in Kenya. We also examined associations...