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Many students and their families do not understand the impact of students’ involvement in gifted or advanced academics educational programs and their potentially positive effects and challenges. Nationally African American students are underrepresented in gifted and advanced academics courses in high schools; however, African American students and families often do not advocate for their inclusion in these educational pathways. A survey of literature supporting this study of voices of...

The study was designed to investigate the level of students' satisfaction with service delivery in federal universities in South-south geopolitical zone of Nigeria in terms of educational, library, security, medical, transport, hostel, and ICT services.Survey design was used to carry out the study, the hypothesis was formulated and literature reviewed.Using the stratified random sampling technique 1,700 students out of a population of 70,808 formed the study's sample.They were Years One,...

Ghana has adopted several policy strategies in approaching the problems of low and inequities in access and quality in her educational system. Although   the country has made modest and sustained gains in these areas, the rural-urban inequity in access and quality continues to persist. This is partly due to the fact that strategies that are adopted are most of the time implemented generally with little consideration to the differences in rural-urban contexts. The objective of this...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has accelerated many aspects of medical education acquisition, driving it towards more evidence-based platforms. We undertook to evaluate anatomy students’ knowledge of computers and information communication technology application in the various departments of anatomy in medical schools. This survey was implemented using questionnaire research instrument and involved 300 students who attended the 12th Annual Conference of the Society of...

Since independence, Ghana has embraced formal education as a catalyst for its developmental agenda. As a developing country, it is confronted with myriads of challenges such as a—high rate of poverty, low school enrollment, gender disparity, environmental degradation, corruption, intermittent power supply, and a shortage of teachers, among others. As a measure to tackle these problems, especially low school enrollment, the government has put in place a number of social intervention programs...

The unique pre-service teacher education programme for Ethiopian immigrants, operated at a Teacher Education College, encompasses two main approaches to value-oriented education, the pluralistic and particularistic approaches. The programme constitutes a challenging ladder which can reduce the educational, social, cultural, instructional and professional gap of Ethiopians in Israel. This paper presents the humanistic theory perception and displays its characteristics in the unique programme....

Inadequate and use of unqualified and untrained personnel in the inspectorate services resulting in poor quality output in the school system has created a gap in teachers’ preparation and update in Nigerian evaluators. Meaningful and quality education can only be achieved with the guide and check of qualified and modern evaluators. The article attempts to find out how criteria for recruitment of evaluators are adhered to and problems the evaluators encounter in their practices as evaluators...

The article recommends that the teaching and learning of religious education in Lesotho schools should capitalize on the existing syncretism of Basotho Traditional Religion and Christianity in the church to extend it to the classroom setting.The discussion begins with a brief history leading to the acceptance of syncretism in the Church, then argues for the use of the term "syncretism" instead of the theologically accepted term "inculturation."Factors that necessitated the formalization of...

This study investigated on the place of affective learning on cognitive learning improvement in two schools located in Arusha, Tanzania. The study established that there is a great need to balance the assessment of learning outcomes in learners by including all the domains associated with behavioral changes instead of assessing the cognitive achievement in the learner alone. The study has also found out that most teachers apply affective knowledge through experience but have little knowledge...

Background: Eye and vision problems have been reported to be more prevalent in rural than urban areas; and a large proportion of South Africans live in the rural areas.Aim: To investigate the opinions of South African optometry students about working in rural areas after completion of their training and to identify factors that may influence theirdecisions.Method: This was a cross-sectional quantitative study using a survey instrument containing both closed and open-ended, semi-structured...

The present study investigated on student teachers’ competence in various aspects of teaching practice through self-evaluation approach. A total of 105 student-teachers filled the questionnaire; descriptive and inferential statistics established mean scores and differences. The study established that student-teachers, regardless of their demographic categorizations, are very competent in teaching, evaluation and supervision of co-curricular activities. Student-teachers are competent in...

The problem of unemployment in Nigeria, especially among the youths has been variously expressed to be alarming if not endemic. As a result of this, various recommendations had been proffered toward ameliorating the menace unfortunately to no avail. Hence, the essence of this research work is to examine the repositioning of Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) as a panacea to unemployment in Nigeria. Data were sourced through primary and secondary means - use of structured questionnaire,...

Physicochemical characteristics of soil, water and plant collected during dry and rainy seasons from a steel rolling mill industry along Ile-Ife road in Osun State were determined using standard methods. Soil analysis revealed highest level of pH to be 8.04, conductivity-0.15 µS/cm, lead-394 ppm, nickel-54.0 ppm, copper-296 ppm, chromium-123 ppm, zinc-975 ppm, iron-85060 ppm, Total organic matter-2.27 ppm, moisture content-38.0%, total organic carbon-1.28 ppm, oil and grease-6.00 ppm. Plant...

Ergenlerde görülen beslenme alışkanlıkları ve uygulamaları veya yeme alışkanlıkları onların sağlığı üzerinde olumsuz sonuçlar doğurabilmektedir.Alkolsüz içecekler, tatlı içecekler, fast food tüketiminin aşırı düzeylere varması alımı, meyve, sebze, tam tahıllı gıdalar, süt ürünleri ve diğer kalsiyum katkılı gıdaların yetersiz alımı; düşük düzeylerde egzersiz yapımı ile artan obezite oranları ile ortaya çıkan olumsuz sağlık sonuçları; bu yaş grubunun beslenme ve yaşam tarzı özelliklerini...

Nigeria's first goal is to meet the domestic demand and then if possible, seek to become competitive export market in palm oil production.Nigeria is potentially competitive in the domestic market if oil palm sector productivity is increased by shifting the technology frontier further.Transformation of the oil palm industry would enhance the overall economic development through the income and employment effects in the rural and urban economies.This paper seeks to present the paradigm shifts...

In this article we present and discuss experiences developed through a dialogue conference which we organised as part of a three-year participatory action research project related to primary education and agricultural education in Tanzania. We explore how dialogue conference as a research method can fill a gap between traditional ways of mutual problem-solving in Tanzania and research. Talking and sharing ideas is important for problem-solving, but the research demonstrated the need for a...