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IntroductionReading is an activity which helps to develop the mind and personality of human beings and ultimately enriches their intellectual lives. As students learn to enjoy reading, learning becomes relevant and in that way improves their reading ability and self concept. Free reading helps readers have mastery of their lives, and situations in life. Examples of how people in the books managed their situations give them knowledge of how to cope with similar situations. According to...

This study explores how engineering students studying project management perceive their learning experiences. To facilitate an understanding of the constituent components of engineering students’ experiences and to understand how these experiences influence preferred learning styles, a comparative study of university students studying engineering in South Africa and the United Kingdom is conducted. The study finds no significant demographic differences in learning experiences across the two...

This study examines the usage of academic library by undergraduates of Afe Babalola University, Nigeria. Four research questions were considered to gather data. Purposive sampling technique was used to obtain data from 500 students of the university who participated in the study. The findings revealed that 56% of the students visited the library daily. 99.6% of the students sampled only visited the library to read for test and examination while 96.8% visited the library to browse the...

Different scholars like Jowitt (2005:vi) and Olaofe (1999:6), have decried the falling standard of education, especially students’ performance in English-a medium through which all other school subjects are studied. Various examinations results like WAEC, NECO and researches attest to this. The teachers of English are identified among the factors responsible for this downward trend, hence the need to critically examine them in order to offer lasting solutions. The problems associated with...

A THESIS SUBMITTED TO SCHOOL OF POST GRADUATE STUDIES AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER DEGREE IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE EDUCATION FACULTY OF EDUCATION AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA NIGERIA

The purpose of the study was to determine the influence of emotional progression factors on adjustment to Loss and Grief on orphaned Kenyan secondary school students.The study was informed by Erikson's Psychosocial Theory of Human Development.Mixed method research approach was used and with it, concurrent triangulation design was adopted.The target population consisted of 47 schools, 20 focus group discussion students, 10 personal interviews and 1,245 Form 3 orphaned students from public...

Facebook has been adopted in many countries with over 80% of its user-base being outside of the US and Canada. Yet, despite this global dominance, not much is understood of Facebook usage by individuals in non-western cultures. A cross-cultural study was conducted with undergraduate students in the United States and Namibia to examine Facebook use. The study used a mixed method of online surveys and focus groups in both countries. The research examined issues such as motivations for use,...

Facebook has been adopted in many countries with over 80% of its user-base being outside of the US and Canada. Yet, despite this global dominance, not much is understood of Facebook usage by individuals in non-western cultures. A cross-cultural study was conducted with undergraduate students in the United States and Namibia to examine Facebook use. The study used a mixed method of online surveys and focus groups in both countries. The research examined issues such as motivations for use,...

The declining number of students enrolling for a qualification in clothing management was evident at a university in South Africa. Higher Education Institutions experienced difficulties in recruiting students for textile and clothing manufacturing programmes due to a negative public perception of the industry. This has brought with it the need to revise the Clothing Management programme in order to keep abreast with the changes in the industry and to align the programme to meet the regional...

The use of child labor in cocoa cultivation is one of the direst issues facing Ghana today. It is imperative to investigate and better understand the diverse factors which lead to the incidence of child labor and schooling in order to develop strategies which can effectively address this sensitive issue. This paper studies the child, head of household and household characteristics that play a role in determining a child’s school enrollment and participation in child labor, using the dataset...

The number of women in computing is significantly low compared to the number of men in the discipline, with African American women making up an even smaller segment of this population. Related literature accredits this phenomenon to multiple sources, including background, stereotypes, discrimination, self-confidence, and a lack of self-efficacy or belief in one's capabilities. However, a majority of the literature fails to represent African American females in research studies. The research...

This study explored palliative care provider self-competence and priorities for future education in an inpatient hospice setting in Kenya. Self-competence scores for clinical skills and patient and family communication skills were hypothesized to differ according to provider type. A descriptive, cross-sectional study design was piloted at Kimbilio Hospice, a 26-bed rural, inpatient facility in Kenya. A quantitative survey instrument entitled, “Self assessment of clinical competency and...

<h3>Background</h3> In Ethiopia, 17% of rural pregnant women suffer from suboptimal nutrition levels. One of the major reasons is that both maternal nutritional knowledge and maternal nutrition attitudes of Ethiopian rural women are among the lowest and poorest in the world. In this quantitatively weighted and sequential (QUANà qual) mixed method true experimental (with matching control group) research study, I investigated the nature of the relationship between eight independent variables...

Students’ perception of their learning environment is a crucial factor in improving quality of learning. Several researches revealed that students’ perception of the learning environment has a significant impact on the students’ academic performance and attitude. This study investigated relationships between students’ perception of automobile technology learning environments and their attitude towards automobile technology in north-eastern tertiary institutions of Nigeria. The research...

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between eczema ever (EE) and current eczema symptoms (ES) in relation to exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).A cross-sectional study using the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood questionnaire.16 schools were randomly selected from two neighbourhoods situated in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng Province, South Africa.From a total population of 3764 school children aged 12-14 years, 3468...

This paper examined the issues in socio economic crises and how they saved as threat to effective implementation of entrepreneurship education program. The study however focused on the concepts, types of courses and effects of socioeconomic crises on the entrepreneurship education program in Nigeria. It was therefore concluded that the socioeconomic crises such as indulgency, inflationary trends vitiation, rioting, armed robbery and ethno religions crises constitute a great threat to...

Children comprise the largest proportion of the population in sub-Saharan Africa. Of these, millions are orphaned. Orphanhood increases the likelihood of growing up in poverty, dropping out of school, and becoming infected with HIV. Therefore, programs aimed at securing a healthy developmental trajectory for these orphaned children are desperately needed. We conducted a two-arm cluster-randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a family-level economic strengthening...