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This study investigated the contribution of classroom assessment practices on enhancing students’ academic performance in Mufindi District-Iringa region. It held three specific objectives namely to: determine the contribution of classroom assessment on students’ academic performance, ascertain perceptions on assessment tools used during classroom assessment and to examine challenges in the assessment and feedback procedures based on classroom assessment in secondary schools in Mufindi...

Objective: To assess the maternal and child health outcomes of pregnant women living with and without disability in Kakamega County, Kenya. Design: A population-based prospective case control study. Setting: The study was done in 12 Sub County in Kakamega County Sample: The study used a multistage probability sampling design to identify the sub counties that would be case and control groups and purposeful and snow balling sampling technique to identify the pregnant women living with...

This study which was informed by cognitive styles theories was a correlational study that examined the interactive effects of cognitive styles and their power to predict academic performance in Chemistry.Cognitive styles were measured on four dimensions: concrete-abstract, active-reflective, verbal-visual and sequential-global.The study explored how cognitive styles of students and teachers interacted to influence learner performance in Mock and in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education...

Research problem: Participation of each and every person in governance system is a fundamental human right and a basic condition for democratic tenets in society regardless of their physical and socio-economic status in society. Persons with disabilities and women in particular have historically been stigmatized, discriminated and excluded in various decision making processes at global, regional, national and local levels. There is dearth literature focusing on the participation of women...

The study explored the implication of cost sharing policy implementation for students’ lives at the University of Dodoma, Tanzania. It sought to address three research objectives; to examine the challenges facing students as a result of cost sharing policy implementation, to analyze strategies used by students to cope up with the challenges of cost sharing policy and to evaluate the effects of cost sharing policy implementation on students’ lives. The study employed purposive and simple...

This study aims at investigating the effects of collective promotion on the attainment of literacy, numeracy, and essential life skills by primary school pupils and also to find out if the policy of collective promotion meets its objective of minimization of wastage in basic education. The study used written tests for pupils in the final class (Level II, class 6) to collect data in some selected English-speaking primary schools in Meme Division of Cameroon. Descriptive statistics and a one...

Electronic Information Sharing (EIS) is a proof of the advancement of ICT that supports daily transaction and decision making, including in the higher education sector. In the higher education system in the Republic of Yemen, EIS brings benefits to the Yemen Center for Information Technology in Higher Education (YCIT-HE) and Yemen public universities in many aspects including enhancing information accuracy and timeliness while providing fast services at minimal costs to students and...

This study investigates teachers' views on the quality of their wellbeing through analysis of teacher narratives in relation to salaries as reflected by teachers' community standing and access to daily essentials.Through snowballing, seventeen participants were identified from the current and the recently resigned.The teachers answered researcher-led open-ended questions.The researcher recorded individual narratives and used these in textual analysis to establish teachers' experiences and...

<title>Abstract</title> The impacts of climate change and variability have manifested themselves throughout the world, but considerable temporal and spatial variations exist across various places and countries. Given the variation in vulnerability, this study was undertaken in pastoral landscapes in northern Tanzania to assess the impacts of climate change, adaptation strategies and their implications to communities' livelihoods and ecosystem integrity. It examined: (i) climate trends and...

The cultural, academic, pedagogical, and dance backgrounds of teachers of Indigenous dances in Uganda are complex and distinct. The teachers who are covered in this book have taken different pathways to becoming Indigenous dance pedagogues. This chapter draws on the biographical information of the eight selected teachers of Indigenous dances to reveal how their educational, personal, artistic, and cultural backgrounds have framed their rationalization of dance, and construction and...

It is almost impossible to perform academic activities, such as accessing study material or contacting lecturers and other teaching and learning processes, at an open distance learning institution without the use of computers and the internet. This article investigates and reports on the time taken by students with and without disabilities to complete certain tasks using the University of South Africa's learning management systems (LMS). The findings of the study indicate that the time taken...

Influential documents such as the synthesis reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007 and 2014 and the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change in 2007 reignited a global effort to counter the effects of global warming and climate change. The United Nations has made climate change a focal point in all its major policy documents with most member countries following suit. South Africa is thus increasingly vulnerable to disasters induced by climate...

This study explored professional learning with the aim of improving teaching performance in chemistry in Kenyan secondary schools. The study investigated how and what Kenyan County chemistry teacher trainers learn from participating in a study where they reflect on their teaching. Reflective practice is not commonly used in teaching and teacher education in Kenya. Teaching and learning of chemistry at the secondary level in Kenya has received criticism overtime because of students’ low...

Abstract The Palestinian National Authority has signed into law human rights protocols that promote, protect and ensure the rights of all children and the rights of persons with disabilities, including the right to an inclusive, equitable education. These protocols are supported by a series of laws and policies which seek to realise the aim of respecting all human rights entitlements. However, chronic occupation has devastated Palestine's infrastructure, fractured the economy, and fragmented...

Ponte Academic JournalAug 2020, Volume 76, Issue 8 ASSESSING ASSESSMENT METHODS AT A SOUTH AFRICAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONAuthor(s): Jeremiah MadzimureJ. Ponte - Aug 2020 - Volume 76 - Issue 8 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2020.8.8 Abstract:The purpose of this article is to examine the influence of assessment methods on student’s learning at a higher education institution in South Africa. This study used a quantitative method to analyse the data. Structured questionnaires were distributed to 50...