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The focus of this study was to strengthen the base of knowledge and to empirically test the relationship between the dimensions of organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviour of teachers of public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. Five null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The sample size was 50 principals and 350 teachers. The sample was obtained using random sampling technique. The instruments used for data collection were questionnaire. The...

I t is a fact that the excessive use of mobile phones nowadays has created a new challenging form of learning via these devices, ubiquitous communications and intelligent innovative user interfaces. Different language skills have relatively been enhanced and a significant growth of mobile have been tremendous in the past years. This study was conducted to investigate the impact of using English short messaging service (SMS) on the development of Egyptian ESP first year students’...

As one of the leading causes of death and disability in the world, human trauma and injury disproportionately affects individuals in developing countries. To meet the need for improved trauma care in Egypt, the Sequential Trauma Emergency/Education ProgramS (STEPS) course was created through the collaborative effort of U.S. and Egyptian physicians. The objective of course development was to create a high-quality, modular, adaptable, and sustainable trauma care course that could be readily...

Our study focuses on an audit of the pedagogical quality of the training of educational inspectors in the center of education inspectors’ training (CFIE) at Rabat-Morocco. Its main purpose is to identify the “standard’ indicators and andragogical variables determining the quality of our training device. For the issue of “How to audit the pedagogical quality of training”, we responded by building an adapted multidimensional model of quality audit: the MASEMCO model. Methodology, Our deployed...

This cross-sectional, descriptive and qualitative research had a threefold purpose: 1) to identify and describe different effective professional tasks and duties of the “expert” inspector of education; 2) contribute to the development of a competency framework of the inspector; 3) deduce the real training needs of inspectors. Method – Our study was conducted with two groups of people: the experienced inspectors (P1) and students - inspectors have completed initial training (P2). P1 was...

The integration of new technologies of information and communication (NTIC) in education poses the problem of the information processing, for those which have to use them within the framework of their research. Besides the technical skills recognized until then to the doctoral student. What knowledges and technological know-how will he have if he intends to capitalize and integrate ICT in their research?This study is the result of reflections based on the capitalization of the expertise...

The scientific research in Morocco experienced a big development for accompany the competitiveness which the world of science knows. The Phd students, representative a very important element in the university research must have the necessary skills to realize and succed this research and especially to emphasize it. This research finds oun justification in the spirit of the university towards the professionalisation of the trade of the researcher, and allows to evaluate the advance of the...

The status of History education within a Social Science education framework of the Lesotho educational system is a cause for concern. In an attempt to foster the development goals of the Kingdom of Lesotho, education and especially Social Science education were identified as a major role player. In spite of this realisation, History education, and to a lesser extent Geography education was identified as liabilities that could be substituted with other disciplines such as Development Studies....

African-Americans with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) have higher morbidity and mortality partly attributed to poor glucose control and lack of formal diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) programs compared to Whites. Therefore, the objective of this study was to compare the clinical and metabolic parameters during DSMES vs. standard care in African-Americans with T2DM attending primary care inner city clinics. We recruited 124 African-American patients with T2DM, randomized into...

This thesis examines classroom talk amongst students and lecturers at the University of Botswana (UB). It aims to find out whether or not classroom interaction can help to develop students’ oral skills in Communication and Study Skills (CSS) classes at UB. The mixed methods approach was used and three research instruments were explained as follows; twenty-seven classroom observations and systematic observations were used amongst nine lecturers who offered CSS to first year students. In...

The intent of this paper was to examine the impact of Secondary School Principals Leadership Behavior on Teachers Commitment in Adama City Administration of Oromia Region, Ethiopia.To achieve this purpose, researcher used concurrent triangulation mixed approach research paradigm.By using simple random sampling technique 120 (68.4%) secondary school teachers were selected.Moreover, 29 leaders from different echelons were purposely selected for qualitative data and included in the study.To...

The present corpus-based study investigates the use of modal verbs in native and Egyptian learner English. Two written corpora - Egyptian learner English Corpus (ELEC) and Michigan Corpus of Undergraduate Native Speakers (MCUNS) - are compiled and processed by the Antconc software (Anthony, 2014). Results are further compared to modal tokens in COCA Academic Sub-section (COCAAS) as a reference corpora. Results show a discrepancy in the frequency and order of modal verbs between native and...

This study examines the associations between home-individual and school-related factors along with a focus on school failure of 431 students who are randomly sampled from nine urban public Junior high schools. The results show that among individual students some characteristics such as gender, motivation, positive attitudes towards school, and work status are significantly associated with school failure. In addition, some family-related aspects like the parents’ educational level,...

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Environmental Science in the School of Environmental Studies of Kenyatta University, July 2015

Climate change is one of the most complex problems of our time presenting unique challenges for societies. For developing countries such as Ethiopia, it complicates existing challenges of development. The problem is aggravated for Sidama’s smallholder farmers’ who depend on rain-­‐fed agriculture to produce coffee for global market and Enset for subsistence. Yet farmers’ understanding and responses to climate change have not been seriously acknowledged nor empirically studied. ...