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Mediational intervention for sensitizing caregivers (MISC) is a structured program enabling caregivers to enhance their child's cognitive and emotional development through daily interactions. The principal aim was to evaluate if a year-long MISC caregiver training program produced greater improvement in child cognitive and emotional development compared with a control program.One hundred and nineteen uninfected HIV-exposed preschool children and their caregivers were randomly assigned to 1...

The quality of science graduates largely depends on the quality of teachers and their practices. Strengthening mathematics and science education in secondary school education (SMASSE) level is an in-service course for teachers aimed at improving their classroom practices. It encourages teachers to use active learning approaches to enhance quality of learning. This study collected data from mathematics and science teachers who have undergone the SMASSE training. The main purpose of the...

This month, we continue our series of articles featuring different places from around the world by taking a look at the wonderfully diverse continent of Africa, where modern humans first originated.

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This research study focused on the relationship between school variables and students’ achievement in mathematics at the senior secondary II level in Rivers State, Nigeria. The ex-post-factor research design was adopted for this study since already conducted mathematics test scores of the students were retrieved and used for the analysis. Furthermore, data were elicited through the school variables and students achievement in mathematics questionnaire (SVASAMQ). A population of 10,373...

This article reports on the success of the drop-out youths in the trades who, during their school days were classified as being incapable of engaging successfully with academic school work. This paper interrogates how these youths, who have been labelled as “slow learners”, offer services to the labour market when they grow older. Therefore, this paper, which is a qualitative case study of ten youths who dropped out of school system in the rural areas of the North West province, examines the...

Nationally, health in Rwanda has been improving since 2000, with considerable improvement since 2005. Despite improvements, rural areas continue to lag behind urban sectors with regard to key health outcomes. Partners In Health (PIH) has been supporting the Rwanda Ministry of Health (MOH) in two rural districts in Rwanda since 2005. Since 2009, the MOH and PIH have spearheaded a health systems strengthening (HSS) intervention in these districts as part of the Rwanda Population Health...

Private entrepreneurship and the disapora play important roles in supporting displaced people in fragile ungoverned situations. They are also valuable in helping those situations emerge from fragility.

The association between attributional style (AS), problem-solving orientation (PSO), and gender on depressive symptoms was investigated in Egyptian adolescents with visual impairment (VI). After being written in Braille, measures of AS, PSO, and depression were administered to 110 adolescents with VI, ages 12–17 years, from a residential school for pupils with VI. Regression analyses showed that gender, negative general (NG) attributions, and negative problem-solving orientation (NPSO) were...

This paper investigated Teacher Motivation for Educational Transformation in Abia State, South-East Nigeria. It was a descriptive survey. A sample of 500 teachers representing 10% of a population of 5008 was selected. A 2-part, 20-item, 4-point scale instrument titled Teacher Motivation Questionnaire (TMQ) was used to collect data for answering 3 research questions. The instrument as validated by a team of 4 experts from the Department of Measurement and Evaluation, University of...

Education in an inclusive setting appears to be a concept in this 21st century. This concept is beginning to gain recognition in the field of education. Children with and without disabilities are gradually being educated together in large scale societies. This is because most large scale countries have begun to recognize, appreciate, and accept children with disabilities in inclusive classrooms. In Nigeria, inclusive education has not fully gained recognition due to governmental policies....

In an effort to address social imbalances and equity in Ghana's education delivery and to achieve her Education for All (EFA) agenda, some pro-poor programmes have been introduced. Among these is the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) that aims among others, at providing safety nets for the poor, increasing school enrolment in addition to boosting domestic food production. While this programme has been implemented since 2005, there is paucity of information on the experiences of...

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitude of secondary school students to epilepsy and its treatment that could pose as barriers in the treatment and care of epilepsy patients within the community.MethodsThis study was cross-sectional and descriptive in design using a self administered custom designed multiple choice questionnaire with sections on general information on epilepsy, awareness and perception of epilepsy, treatment of epilepsy/seizures and...

Abstract In this article, we focus on instructional support for 91 students who speak African American Vernacular English and who are at high risk for not passing the required state exams. We profile the instruction that was provided and the results from that instruction, providing examples of how students’ language was scaffolded such that they could code switch between test language (standard academic English) and the languages of their homes.

The study assessed economic burden of pharmacotherapy in hypertension management on the National Health insurance Scheme (NHIS) of Nigeria, Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), the individual patients, and the companies as well as the economies of antihypertensives selection. Two hundred and fifty case notes of hypertensive patients attending out-patient-department of the hospital (between August 1st – November 30th, 2011) were randomly selected. Selection criteria required that patients...

Strong correlations between high levels of poverty and low education outcomes have prompted interventions aimed at raising literacy levels in communities characterised by poverty within Kenya, as in other countries. However, interventions aimed at improving literacy only in the languages of instruction (LOI) may not be the best option for students who speak mother tongues (MT) different from the school's LOI. The Capability Approach framework is used to examine the potential of...