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South Africa's post-Apartheid Grades 1–9 curriculum, Curriculum 2005, has been introduced with many good intentions and an abundance of perceived educationally correct rhetoric. It requires that teachers make a `paradigm shift' from their old teaching practices to new ones. In order to understand better the processes which might be involved in such a transition, a small study was conducted of the way in which Grade 4 teachers performed the assessment of English reading. The results of the...
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A research dissertation on the problems facing female resident students at the University of Zimbabwe.
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The public education system in the United States has overidentified African American children as targets for special education. In 1998, figures released by the U.S. Department of Education showed that African American students comprised 21% of all students in special education courses in the United States. Yet, African American students account for only 16.8% of the public school population. Research shows that overidentification is related to ethnicity, poverty, inappropriate assessment...
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The most important threat to the credibility of the results of educational assessment in Africa is examination malpractice. Given the many important and vital decisions to which its results are put, assessment is useful only to the extent that it provides the various decisions-making processes with a vital index which, with high degree of confidence, represents the level of ability implied in the certification given to the products of education. Ensuring this is one of the most important...
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The authors examined the relationship between racial identity statuses and the use of psychological defenses in 80 African American college students who completed the Black Racial Identity Attitude Scale (J. E. Helms & T. A. Parham, 1996), Defense Mechanism Inventory (G. C. Gleser & D. Ihilevich, 1969), and the Defense Style Questionnaire-40 (G. Andrews, M. Singh, & M. Bond, 1993). The canonical analysis indicated that pre-encounter and encounter ego statuses were positively related to...
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Submitted to the faculty of Arts in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zululand, 2001.
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Submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Education to the Faculty of Education in the Department of Philosophy of Education at the University of Zululand Durban-Umlazi campus, 2001.
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The present study investigated the sources and incidence of self-reported teacher stress in a context in which selected demographic characteristics and school variables were incorporated in the research design. The results of the survey of 478 teachers who completed a self-administered occupational stress questionnaire revealed that 36.03% teachers rated their work as either very stressful or extremely stressful. Results also showed that biographical characteristics of the research sample...