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This article reports the results of a 1-year evaluation of the CoZi model, a whole school reform model that combines Edward Zigler’s School of the 21st Century (which includes on-site, daylong, and year-round preschool, after-school care, and family support services) with James Comer’s School Development Program, a school management and collaborative decision-making model. The study used written surveys, in-depth interviews, achievement tests, and classroom observations to study teacher,...

Educational Measurement: Issues and PracticeVolume 19, Issue 3 p. 45-45 The Challenges of School-Based Assessment in Primary Schools in Malawi Docks R. Jere, Docks R. Jere Senior Research Officer, Malawi Institute of Education, PO Box 50, Domasi, Malawi, Africa.Search for more papers by this author Docks R. Jere, Docks R. Jere Senior Research Officer, Malawi Institute of Education, PO Box 50, Domasi, Malawi, Africa.Search for more papers by this author First published: 25 October 2005...

Acute and chronic respiratory diseases, which are causally linked to exposure to indoor air pollution in developing countries, are the leading cause of global morbidity and mortality. Efforts to develop effective intervention strategies and detailed quantification of the exposure-response relationship for indoor particulate matter require accurate estimates of exposure. We used continuous monitoring of indoor air pollution and individual time-activity budget data to construct detailed...

Acute and chronic respiratory diseases, which are causally linked to exposure to indoor air pollution in developing countries, are the leading cause of global morbidity and mortality. Efforts to develop effective intervention strategies and detailed quantification of the exposure-response relationship for indoor particulate matter require accurate estimates of exposure. We used continuous monitoring of indoor air pollution and individual time-activity budget data to construct detailed...

In Namibia in 1990, apartheid was ended, and a democratic form of government was installed; 2 years later, the national government established a system of partially decentralized regional governments. At the same time, the government reacted to the severe drought of 1992 by instituting a national drought relief bureaucracy with particular attention to the predominantly Black African communal areas, which incorporated the new regional councils. This, in turn, created the opportunity for those...

A data-intensive research project on the climate history of Africa has been made part of an introductory college-level earth-science course. The project introduces students to the challenge of working with real data as student teams analyze and interpret extended records of monthly rainfall and average temperature for stations across Africa with the goal of defining regional climate patterns and assessing evidence regarding climate change. The exercise emphasizes quantitative skills in data...

The Thousand Schools Project was conceived at a time of far-reaching social and political change in South Africa. The innovative features of the programme are acknowledged. Drawing on evidence derived from an evaluation of the implementation phase of the project in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, critical issues are identified in relation to the project's goals and strategies, and in relation to the impact of contextual factors. The paper then examines the implications of these issues for an...

Detailed study of 3D seismic data from deepwater Nigeria has revealed the presence of features interpreted to be mud volcanoes. They occur in an upper slope environment seen as 1–2 km circular features at the seabed. Seabed cores from the mud volcanoes contain oil, gas and sand/shale–clast content richer than the seabed background. Pliocene fossils have been identified in the cores, demonstrating transport of material from depth. The features show a high seabed seismic amplitude above a...

The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) was administered to 408 South African college students. When the instrument was factor analyzed at the facet level with varimax rotation, the structure of the five-factor model was well reproduced for the entire sample as well as the White and Black subgroups. Parallel analysis indicated the appropriateness of the five-factor solution. Whereas the structure of personality was highly similar across race, there were statistically significant...

The article analyses the rapid political change and redefinition of a regional identity in southern Africa in the 1990s in the context of the severe drought which affected these countries in 1991–92. As South Africa and its neighbours looked towards the normalisation of relations, concerted, regional, emergency actions prevented the drought conditions from producing a devastating drought disaster. These events not only served as a confidence‐building measure demonstrating that southern...

Many educators and parents in South Africa are concerned about the provision of appropriate educational opportunities for gifted learners. A policy of mainstream education for all learners, including gifted learners, has been accepted by the national Department of Education. In this article a strategy of problem solving in the teaching and learning of gifted learners is explored as a possible way of differentiating the curriculum in order to optimise learning for gifted learners. The TASC...

Abstract Teachers working in under resourced and overcrowded classrooms in the historically disadvantaged schools of South Africa have traditionally used the blackboard as the main means for transmission of knowledge and also for control. The introduction of a new outcomes-based Curriculum 2005, emphasising active learning, and the integration of teaching and assessment, requires a big change in such teachers classroom practice. This article describes a science teacher development...

A two-phase study examined the skills required of competent end-users of computers in the workplace and assessed the computing awareness and technological environment of first-year students entering historically disadvantaged technikons in South Africa. First, a DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) panel of nine representatives of local business and industry was convened to obtain employer input regarding the end-user computing (EUC) skills required of competent computer users in the workplace....

"Teaching African American Students." The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 74(1), pp. 5–6

ABSTRACT. In this article we describe some of the strategies and initiatives within Departments of Education in South Africa to change attitudes and behaviours around gender-based violence and harassment and bring about systemic change. We look specifically at the role of the National Department of Education (NDoE), teachers, learners, and school policy. The areas selected reflect the work and interests of the National Department of Education's Gender Equity Directorate and the gender focal...

ABSTRACT. This article considers current international debates about single-sex schooling. It examines the reasons for the recommendation of the South African Gender Equity Task Team that single-sex schools for girls be established. It argues that the specific circumstances of schooling in South Africa, particularly the violent conditions that prevail in many schools, require that the desirability of single-sex schooling for particular constituencies continually be debated. RESUME. Cet...

This study examines the shifting nature of the cultural practice of basketball as players move from middle school to high school play and related shifts in players' statistical evaluations linked to play. Thirty‐four middle and high school African American basketball players were observed and interviewed as they participated in the practice of basketball. Results show that the practice of basketball differs at these two levels of play corresponding to differences in mathematics linked to play.