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A Research Report Submitted to Faculty of Education in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Bachelor's Degree in Special Needs Education of Kampala International University

The present study linked gender and grade level to homework management strategies and homework completion behaviours. The participants were 685 African American students in the south‐eastern USA, including 370 eighth graders and 315 eleventh graders. Gender appeared related to the majority of homework measures examined in the present study. Specifically, compared with boys, girls reported more frequently working to manage their workspace, monitor motivation and control negative emotion. In...

Sports in the Nigerian Universities are essentially for students and by students. This means that the student is not only the prime beneficiary but also a prime producer of sports as entertainment in the university. Therefore the success of the university athletic programme depends on the satisfaction that students derive from sports. This study was conducted to find out the relationship between students-athletes9 satisfaction and leadership profile of sports administrators in Nigerian...

Among 224 African American adolescents (mean age = 14), the associations between interracial and intraracial contact and school‐level diversity on changes in racial identity over a 3‐year period were examined. Youths were determined to be diffused, foreclosed, moratorium, or achieved, and change or stability in identity status was examined. Contact with Black students, Black friends, and White friends predicted change in identity status. Furthermore, in racially diverse schools, having more...

Tanzania is China’s biggest recipient country in Africa. This piece explores a little China’s educational aid to Africa.

Climate variability and change have been implicated to have significant impacts on global and regional food production particularly the common stable food crops performance in tropical sub-humid climatic zone. However, the extent and nature of these impacts still remain uncertain. In this study, records of crop yields and some climatic variables for a period of 17 years (1990 - 2006) were used to carry out a comprehensive study of the impacts of climate variability on some common classes of...

To determine the most frequent type of removable prostheses requested by patients who presented to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital outpatient clinic a descriptive retrospective study was carried out for all patients attending the Prosthodontic out patient clinic, who requested for removable prostheses from January 2004 - October 2008. The source of data was the clinic’s log book and patients’ case notes. Exclusion criteria are; request for obturators, mouth guard and palatal...

Research Article| September 01, 2010 A Unified Catalog of Main Earthquakes for Northern Algeria from A.D. 856 to 2008 M. Hamdache; M. Hamdache Department of Physics University of Jaén Campus de Las Lagunillas. Building A3 23071-Jaén, Spain japelaez@ujaen.es (J. A. P.) 1Département d'Études et Surveillance Sismique, Centre de Recherche en Astronomie, Astrophysique et Géophysique, Algiers, Algeria Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar José A. Peláez; José A....

Purpose The paper aims to further understand the contribution of indigenous knowledge to disaster risk reduction through reviewing the experiences of Baliau village situated on Manam Island in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Design/methodology/approach Indigenous strategies for disaster risk reduction were identified through participatory group discussions with community members, including a strengths‐weaknesses‐opportunities‐threats analysis. Findings The paper outlines how indigenous...

This paper dealt with information systems which had existed since the beginning of mankind. Information systems tagged as computer based information is employed in educational settings in all countries of the world especially Nigeria as a developing nation. This has changed over the years and has given rise to information technologies and data storage devices for recording information. These are virtually done in any form of energy spanning from manual muscle power in hand writing to...

The study investigated the information seeking behaviour of two categories of distance learners in Botswana, comprising the cross-border students and those that registered with the University of Botswana. The return of 364 duly completed questionnaires recorded 70.1 percent response rate. Cross tabulation and chi-square were made to relate the independent variables to the findings and establish possible influence where appropriate. The study made recommendations that could assist the...

This paper focuses on reconceptualizing vocational and technological education in Africa to make it more relevant and able to meet the emergent global and sustainable economy. The past and present operations of this system of education were x-rayed pointing out the problems and the expectations. The expectations were high. The problems are equally numerous and overwhelming such that as it is being presently operated the system can not meet both the local needs and international standard....

This qualitative study identifies the ways in which teachers in an urban school district responded to the specialized educational needs of Somali Bantu refugee students who have recently been relocated to the United States and who have had limited and interrupted access to education prior to their enrollment in public schools in the United States. The article identifies the institutional obstacles teachers in Central City 1 high schools faced in general during the 2007—2008 school year and...

Research training for public health professionals is key to the future of public health and policy in Africa. A growing number of schools of public health are connected to health and socio-demographic surveillance system field sites in developing countries, in Africa and Asia in particular. Linking training programs with these sites provides important opportunities to improve training, build local research capacity, foreground local health priorities, and increase the relevance of research...

The article takes as a case study a group of disability rights activists who were given access to a master’s program via Recognition of Prior Learning. The question explored is “Can adult learners’ prior experiential knowledge act as a resource for the successful acquisition of postgraduate academic literacy practices?” The analysis is framed theoretically by Bourdieu’s notions of habitus, capital, and field. It is argued that adult learners’ acquisition of postgraduate literacies is an...

This paper focuses on various international fee regimes within African universities and aims to sensitize debates around this highly neglected issue. My primary goal is not only to challenge arbitrary policy, but also to produce a useful sociological framework capable of enabling Africans to participate in their own educational development wherever they may choose to study. This paper targets African curriculum policy-makers and stakeholders and by focusing on the differential fee regimes,...

Human populations consist of individuals who differ widely in body shape and size. Growth and development are intrinsic characteristics of childhood. Progress in growth and developmental milestones is age related, occurs in phases and has a normal pattern. There are different patterns of growth for particular age groups, from the prenatal period to adolescence. This study was conducted to compare the anthropometric variables of different age and sex group has associated to various degree of...

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Decision-makers are often confronted with contradictory demands when it comes to developing projects to evaluate and foster suitable strategies for adapting to global warming. In fact, few quantitative methods for assessing the impact of climate change on resilience and adaptive capacity have been defined and used. Furthermore, the tendency has been to treat the impact of climate change as a stand-alone activity, whereas it should be integrated into development projects, plans, policies, and...