Your search
Results 2,685 resources
-
This longitudinal study examined the PRAXIS I experiences of African American and Latino undergraduates seeking admission into teacher education at a Big Ten university. Participants were 44 students selected from a larger sample enrolled in a recruitment and support program aimed at members of underrepresented minority groups. The theoretical framework included ethnic identity development, stereotype threat, cultural continuity/discontinuity, and bias in standardized testing. Findings...
-
Massive differentials on achievement tests and examinations reflect South Africa’s divided past. Improving the distribution of educational outcomes is imperative to overcome labour market inequalities. Historically white and Indian schools still outperform black and coloured schools in examinations, and intraclass correlation coefficients (rho) reflect far greater between-school variance compared to overall variance than for other countries. SACMEQ’s rich data sets provide new possibilities...
-
AbstractThis paper modeled the proximate determinants of the scores on 60 items from Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI) and of school participation of approximately 1,000 children who had lost their mothers due to AIDS and from other causes using the data from a survey in Ethiopia. The scores on MMPI items reflecting emotional and social adjustment, and school participation before and after maternal deaths were modeled in a multi-disciplinary framework incorporating the...
-
Higher education in South Africa faces severe challenges due to the under preparedness of many students entering the system. Research (Perkins 1991; Pretorius 2000, 2005; Balfour 2002) has shown that many students who enter higher education do not have the required academic literacy knowledge and strategies to engage meaningfully with the relevant texts in their disciplines. A major obstacle to students’ success is their limited reading strategies. A significantly large number of students...
-
This case study considers the quality assurance practices at the recently established Kyambogo University (KYU) in Uganda. In a resource-poor environment, practices have developed that put the learner at the centre of efforts to provide quality materials and learner support through the “culture of care.” This leads to the conclusion that the ideology of an institution and the putting of this ideology into practice are key factors in establishing quality assurance.
-
Reconstruction of the judicial sector and consequently reestablishment of the rule of law is one of the most urgent challenges faced by those delivering technical assistance in post-conflict areas. Post-conflict situations, in spite of the tragedies that have occurred, represent unique opportunity for general population to participate in the rebuilding of the justice sector. Reconstruction of the justice system is a monumental task. By definition the target population is extremely sensitive....
-
BACKGROUND:Highly active antiretroviral therapy(HAART)can improve cognitive performance in some patients with HIV-associated cognitive impairment in the United States.The effect of HAART on HIV dementia in sub-Saharan Africa is largely unknown.OBJECTIVE:To evaluate neuropsychological test and functional performance in HIV+individuals after 3 and 6 months of HAART in Uganda.METHODS:Twenty-three HIV+individuals receiving HAART also received a detailed clinical history,neuropsychological...
-
This paper explores the potential that ICT -mediated distance education has in increasing access to quality higher education in Africa. The need for ICT-mediated education is justified by the fact that conventional methods are not meeting the demands for higher education in Africa. In addition to increasing access, the paper recognizes that ICT can increase the quality of distance education delivery and highlights currency, accuracy, interactivity and relevance as important attributes of...
-
If the practice of psychology is to be relevant to environmental realities and context sensitive then conscious consideration must be given to the psychology training programme. Training programmes should give due recognition to the historical, political, social, economic and cultural contexts of human behaviours so as to understand how these interacting contexts may contribute to placing people at risk for ill-health. The main aim of this article is to present an analysis of African...
-
Society‟s ability to cause major changes in the atmosphere, and other elements of the environment, is a recent phenomenon, strongly influenced by demography and technological development[1]. Primitive peoples, for example, being few in number and operating at low energy levels with only basic tools did very little to alter their environment. The characteristically low natural growth rates of the hunting and gathering groups who inhabited the earth in prehistoric time ensured that populations...
-
The Impact of Investments in ICT, Health and Education on Development : A DEA Analysis of Five African Countries from 1993-1999
-
This article highlights the problems facing organised labour in highly globalised and poorly regulated industries and, through a case study of a union-initiated training programme in the shipping industry, seeks to shed further light on the role and potential of unions in promoting human resource development. More specifically, the authors investigate the relative success of the pilot scheme of the International Transport Workers' Federation in upgrading the skills of African seafarers...