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The present article aims at providing some empirical evidence on the important role student engagement plays in responding to student needs and in enhancing the quality of the teaching and learning environment in Moroccan universities.Student engagement happens at many levels that correspond to the "principles of good practice in undergraduate education" that were suggested by Chickering and Gamson (1987).This article tries to identify these aspects of student engagement and good practice in...

The present research paper is a plea for a reform policy of English Language Education in Algerian secondary-school education.It attempts to redraw the boundaries of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) from a teaching-testing perspective based on two fundamental questions: the 'what-toteach' and the 'what-to-test', which represent the rationale of Algerian EFL classrooms.It also expands into a discussion of the discrepancies existing between stated objectives and classroom practice.This...

We present improvements in automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Somali, a currently extremely under-resourced language. This forms part of a continuing United Nations (UN) effort to employ ASR-based keyword spotting systems to support humanitarian relief programmes in rural Africa. Using just 1.57 hours of annotated speech data as a seed corpus, we increase the pool of training data by applying semi-supervised training to 17.55 hours of untranscribed speech. We make use of factorised...

The disturbing issue of Mathematics underachievement among gifted students seems more like a mystery than a reality and therefore calls for urgent intervention. This is why this study was motivated to investigate the psycho-social predictors that are reliable in discriminating potential achievers and underachieving gifted students in Mathematics. The study is a causal comparative study of 154 gifted SSII students purposively selected through multi-stage screening form 15 secondary schools in...

The importance of school-based Sexuality Education (SE) programs is widely recognized.Effective implementation of such programs require that due consideration be given to sociocultural factors that can constitute enablers and potential barriers.Numerous research studies on these aspects have been conducted in developed countries.However, there is a lack of such studies in developing countries, especially studies involving school-aged adolescents from a multicultural context and from...

The adoption of ICT in classrooms is very important in order to improve education quality, promote effective management of knowledge, and improve delivery of knowledge in higher education. Some of the Libyan universities have already started using E-learning in classrooms, but many challenges are still hindering that adoption. This paper endeavors to find the obstacles that may face the adoption of E-learning in Libya and sketches out the possible solutions. Further, it highlights the...

Institutions of Higher Education, particularly universities contribute immensely to the United Nations landmark 2030 agenda and the achievement of its Sustainable Development Goals—the SDGs. Universities are uniquely placed to broken links between different sectors through fostering cross-cutting approaches to achieving the climate change-related sustainable development goals. This chapter documents the extent to which Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) in Zimbabwe contributes towards...

Modern type of business organizations was started in Ethiopian before hundred years ago and the number is tremendously increasing nowadays. However, there was no one set of generally accepted accounting standard used by business organization in the country till December 2014 when IFRS was proclaimed as the law of the land. Though IFRS was accepted for financial reporting in the country starting from 2014, the level of preparedness in teaching IFRS in Ethiopian universities was not studied....

The integration of ICT in school management is now becoming a necessity to adapt to the current global changes and to attach the motivation of leaders to join a process of planning and governance of high quality educational projects.Today, the implementation of digital institutions is characterized by two paths at two different speeds a first the implementation of ICT in the course of education whose subject occupies the interest and use the budget of all innovation projects and the other...

This paper discusses a future vision for developing education in Egypt, through a number of axes including: identifying the problems of the Egyptian education system, the State's efforts to reform and develop the education system, and then provide a proposed vision for the development of the education system in Egypt, including: (Achieving financial support, Preparing Teachers' capabilities o deal with developed curricula, using Authentic Approaches in planning and development the...

The study investigates the impact of activity-based teaching strategy on gifted students’ academic performance. Quantitative methods using a quasi-experimental design were used on a random sample of 330 gifted students selected from 11 Junior secondary schools from Katsina Metropolis, Nigeria. A 60 items Basic Science Achievement Test (BSAT) with reliability coefficient of 0.98 was administered to 11 schools before and after the treatment and scores analyzed using t-tests. The findings...

The successful achievement of the goals of education for sustainable development (ESD) primarily depend on the nature of the curriculum, teaching and learning approaches, assessment practices and teacher commitment. Research shows that, although secondary school teachers are expected to infuse global issues in their respective teaching subjects at secondary school level, in Botswana, many of them are unable to do so. Teacher education programmes are blamed for not equipping them with the...

As the world continues moving along sustainability pathways, higher education cannot be left behind. This chapter emerges from a lived experience of embarking on a roadmap for addressing energy efficiency, alternative energy and carbon management within a university set-up in response to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The work focuses on Sustainable Development Goal 7 that deals with ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all....

This paper presents the effects of using digital games on improving language learning in Tanzanian preschools. A gamified learning prototype system was developed for making alphabetical sound articulation more engaging and fun. The study was conducted with twelve preschools in Tanzania. The results revealed that preschoolers’ learning performance was improved when the game-based learning approach was incorporated into the sound articulation lesson. The findings inform educational...

Computer Assisted Experimentation (CAEx) allows real scientific experiments using a computer, composed of an electronic interface for data acquisition and sensor.The CAEx is a very important area for the use of ICT in experimental sciences.In Morocco, although the Ministry of National Education has equipped almost all high schools with equipment CAEx, studies have shown that CAEx remains little used in the teaching of physics and science and in high schools.Our study aims at identifying the...