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Summary This paper presents the results of an analysis of resource inputs and academic performance based on the production‐function framework. Using a quasi‐longitudinal design, ex post facto data were collected from 26 secondary schools in a Nigerian state. Multiple regression results show that there was a significant relationship between teachers’ salaries or professional qualification of English language teachers and academic performance. Five of the resource inputs considered accounted...
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Abstract All planned change efforts imply a commitment to a certain view of reality, and acceptance of certain modes of realizing ends. Those assumptions constitute the conscious or unconscious bases for selecting specific courses of action and thus precede all tactical decisions. To the extent that change agents cannot identify those basic assumptions and their implications, they cannot explore the full range of effective strategies for change. (Crowfoot and Chesler 1974) Additional...
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(1988). Twenty-five Years of Social Studies Education in Selected African Nations. The Social Studies: Vol. 79, No. 6, pp. 281-287.
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An African Grey parrot, Alex, learned to report on the absence or presence of similarity and difference between two objects. Alex was shown pairs of objects that were (a) totally dissimilar, (b) identical, or (c) similar or different with respect to one of three attributes (color, shape, or material). In the first two cases, he responded to the respective queries of “What's same?” or “What's different?” with the vocalization “none,” and in the third case he responded with the appropriate...
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A nationwide AIDS education campaign in Zambia was constrained by lack of support from traditional healers. First, some of them did not appreciate the nature of the new disease, and second, others hampered the education efforts by publicly claiming that they possessed curative and/or preventive medicines for HIV infection. To overcome communication barriers, the health education unit convened a workshop for traditional medical practitioners and their orthodox counterparts. An important...
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2878 children from the 2nd and 3rd grades in elementary schools were assessed for their reading ability by means of standardised tests for linguistic ability and rate of letters identification. 84 children (3%) with IQ 90 or more and no evidence of sensory or motor impairment were backward in their reading ability. They were left to proceed in their conventional educational programme for the next 3 years, then reassessed. 47 (2%) children had attained satisfactory reading skills. The 37 (27...
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Geological analysis of eight trench exposures through the El Asnam fault zone, reactivated during the October 10, 1980 earthquake (M = 7.3), shows various tectono-sedimentary structures associated with large seismic events in the past. Situated on the southeastern flank of the active Sara El Maarouf fold, the trenches cut across the main 1980 fault traces and also across a secondary normal fault (bending-moment or extrados fault). The erosional action of the Cheliff and Fodda rivers on the...
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This article reviews selected research and literature related to women in Zambia; the subject matter is discussed under four categories. The first category of research focuses on the socialisation of girls in schools. The second is directed to the training needs of women, who lack adequate education, in rural areas. Then, research on the involvement of women in the informal sector of the urban areas is presented. Lastly, research that deals with the status of women through study of...
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The purpose of this paper is to shift the emphasis in the interpretation of the nineteenth century history of Mozambique. During the 1820s much of the region was devastated by drought and famine and the social and economic dislocation that followed brought with it important long term political changes, as well as the demise of the traditional commercial life of the region. The paper looks at some of the ways in which the local population responded to the drought and how they coped or failed...
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Condom use was assessed after a programme of education about the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and a condom distribution programme in a well-characterised prostitute population in Nairobi. Women received their education at group meetings (barazas) and at individual counselling sessions during which they were given the results of serological tests for the human immunodeficiency virus (group 1) or at barazas only (group 2), or through very little of either (group 3). During the...
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This study was conducted in June/July 1984 to gather information on the management of diarrhoea in the home and hence the impact of health workers in their promotions of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) for the diarrhoeal diseases control programme. Eight rural areas were selected, one randomly chosen from each province. A total of 480 mothers/childminders, 141 villagers, health workers, 78 medical and health assistants and 38 community sisters were interviewed. The majority (77.4 percent) of...