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Contents: The book deals with gifted/talented education in the world community. It briefly traces the history of gifted/talented education, and it explores gifted education in the developing countries, the beleaguered countries of Israel, Taiwan, and South Africa, the Marxist countries, and the developed countries of Europe, North America, Asia, and the South Pacific.
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Knowledge about AIDS and self-reported sexual behaviour was studied among 1532 (893 male, 633 female) Zimbabwean secondary school pupils drawn from 12 schools. Most subjects knew that AIDS is fatal and incurable. However, over 40% of subjects believed that most people with AIDS in Africa are homosexual. Over 40% of respondents did not know that many HIV seropositive individuals look healthy. Nearly 40% of participants believed that HIV can be contracted from toilet seats and 54% of subjects...
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The personality concomitants of teacher stress were studied in a sample of 148 Zimbabwean secondary school teachers. Respondents completed the Teacher Stress Profile, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and the Howarth Personality Questionnaire. These scales exhibited acceptable reliabilities in cross-cultural use in Zimbabwe. The correlates of teacher stress among males included Eysenck's Extraversion and Neuroticism factors and Howarth's Anxiety, Hypochondriasis (or pre-occupation with...
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Knowledge about AIDS was studied among 4,189 Zimbabwean teacher-trainees from January to March, 1988, about six months after a national AIDS awareness campaign began. Knowledge about AIDS among part of this sample of teacher-trainees surveyed after the AIDS campaign began was also compared with that displayed by 630 teacher-trainees studied in January, 1987, roughly six months before the AIDS campaign began. Over 85 percent of 1988 subjects knew that AIDS is fatal and incurable. More than 80...
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Countries in sub - Saharan Africa (SSA) are trying to make their proposed goal of universal primary education a reality. Given the budgetary constraints, it is natural to seek to increase the efficiency and to reduce the cost of inputs. Teachers' salaries account for over ninety percent of the primary schools recurrent budget. Therefore, the analysis of teachers' salaries is crucial to forecasting primary school expenditures and developing policies to rationalize teachers' cost. Until now a...
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Abstract An analysis of the various contraceptive methods practiced by a total of 462 student midwives from the Northern and Southern parts of Nigeria over a 3‐years period is presented. The differences in age distribution, the type of contraceptive agents used, the reasons for using them, and the side effects in the two groups are statistically significant. The need to provide acceptable contraceptive advice to the rural communities by the midwives is discussed.
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The importance of and preference for evaluating learning outcomes, using a wide variety of instruments and containing data from a wide variety of sources, rather than the use of one-shot and one-type examinations, have long been recognised worldwide; hence the Federal Government of Nigeria mandated, in 1982, the use of evaluations of this nature, referred to as continuous assessment, in Nigerian Schools. Several problems confronted its planning, and now its implementation. The authors of...