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The study examined the teachers’ level of understanding the language of Mathematics as a determinant of students’ achievement in Mathematics in Nigeria. Participants included 50 teaching teachers and 1500 students in Ekiti State, Nigeria, who answered questions on teachers’ level of understanding of Mathematical terms in the daily use and applications, The data collected were analyzed descriptively using percentages, means and standard deviations. Hypotheses were analyzed using chi-square...
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Using archival and oral sources from Sierra Leone and the U.K. this paper digs into the details of decolonization, and highlights how academic culture was reordered in the wake of empire. In 1960s Sierra Leone a century of colonial affiliation between Fourah Bay College and its parent university, Durham University, was coming apart day by day. British critics of Sierra Leones postcolonial government were deported, tense conjugal and domestic arrangements snapped apart, and paternalistic...
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This paper discusses the relationship between international agendas for lifelong learning and financial aid for low income countries, especially those on the African continent. It argues that there are subtle differences in terminology written by policymakers respectively in Europe and South Africa for lifelong learning but that international development agendas reinscribe lifelong learning for countries in receipt of development aid. Taking a postcolonial perspective the paper provides a...
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The study sought to determine what the factors affecting quality. The study was basically qualitative. Personal accounts of teachers were sought yielding qualitative data. The research employed the descriptive survey design. In this study, a sample of 263 teachers from four districts of Masvingo province in Zimbabwe was chosen using the convenience sampling technique. The study found out that departmental members were clear about the vision towards which they were working at, had a...
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Background: Obesity and overweight have reached epidemic levels in developed countries and the prevalence is rising in developing nations.This study seeks to determine the prevalence of obesity in a tertiary institution in Nigeria and its association with socio-demographic factors.Method: In a cross-sectional survey, by a cluster sampling method, 471 subjects were selected between the ages of 16 -68years.A structured questionnaire was used to collect socio-demographic data.The body weight...
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The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of shortage of teachers on curriculum implementation in Community Secondary Schools in Bukoba Municipality. Therefore, the problem of the study was the shortage of teacher’s on implementation of the Curriculum. The research design used in this study was cross –sectional survey aimed at collecting data from large number of samples of various categories at a particular time so as to describe the nature of the problem. The methods of date...
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Background This study aims to complement recent research on sexual concurrency in South Africa by providing a deeper understanding of women’s roles and motivations for engaging in and accepting their partners’ concurrency. Our goal is to inform the implementation of more effective interventions that embrace the powerful role that women can play in healthy sexual decision-making in consensual relationships. Methods: We conducted 12 focus groups with male and female students at the University...
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We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers across schools. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation and the presence of common pre-treatment trends between hardship and non-hardship schools provide sources of identifying variation. We find that the hardship allowance increased the share of qualified (certified) teachers...
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To quantify geographical variation in the relative contribution of parasitic infections, socioeconomic factors and malnutrition in the aetiology of anaemia among schoolchildren across Kenya, thereby providing a rational basis for the targeting of an integrated school health package.Nationally representative cross-sectional survey data were collected using standard protocols. For all included children, data were recorded on haemoglobin (Hb) concentration and common parasitic infections...
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This study investigated the pedagogical content knowledge of Social Studies teachers and their assessment practices in Senior High Schools in Ghana. This research question guided the study: How does trained graduate Social Studies teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge influence the questions they set at the Senior High School level? A sequential mixed method design was used for the study. Data from questionnaire was triangulated with interviews and document analysis of teachers’ questions...
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This paper was developed for the UN Foundation and ExxonMobil Foundation research collaboration on “Building a Roadmap for Women’s Economic Empowerment,” building on ongoing work in the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP), supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We would like to thank Mayra Buvinic and Emily Courey Pryor for their guidance to the overall project, Elena Bardasi for insightful comments, and participants at a workshop at Greentree Estate for helpful...