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The importance of evaluating job performance is increased by increasing awareness of what it can offer for planning, organizing, training, and recruitment in any administrative organization or educational institution. Where it is considered one of the most important activities and processes related to human resources management, but it still does not receive enough attention. There is considerable controversy and doubt, especially the evaluation of academic performance of faculty members in...

Bu araştırmanın amacı, aynı sınıfta öğrenim gören, Türk ve Suriyeli öğrencilerin gruplar arası olumlu ve olumsuz temas deneyimlerini incelemektir.Araştırma, nitel çalışma olarak kurgulanmıştır.Çalışmada yarıyapılandırılmış görüşme tekniği kullanılmıştır

Contesting the Classroom is the first scholarly work to analyze both how Algerian and Moroccan novels depict the postcolonial classroom, and how postcolonial literatures are taught in Morocco and Algeria. Drawing on a corpus of contemporary novels in French and Arabic, it shows that authors imagined the fictional classroom as a pluralistic and inclusive space, often at odds with the narrow nationalist vision of postcolonial identity. Yet when authors wrote about the school, they also had to...

Noise is a neglected salient environmental pollutant in some neighborhoods in cities, increasing the risk to human safety and comfort.Noise meter instrument was used to collect data on sound levels in dBA in randomly selected high-density, medium-density and low-density neighbourhoods in Enugu metropolis, Nigeria on work days (MondayFriday) during the morning hours (6:30-10 a.m.), after-noon hours (2.30-6 p.m.) and night hours (7-10 p.m.). T-test was used to make an inference. Results showed...

The study sought to investigate the influence of strategic communication on the growth of students’ population in selected private universities in Kenya. The study was guided by resource-based theory. The study utilized descriptive research design. Random sampling technique was used to select research respondents. The study targeted private universities in north rift, south rift and Nyanza region of Kenya. The unit of observations was staff and students in various departments and faculties...

Objectives: The main objective of this research was to determine the University of Zambia medical students' awareness of the role of physiotherapy in health care at Ridgeway Campus, School of Medicine.
 Methods: This study was a descriptive crosssectional study. One hundred and fifty-two medical students of the University of Zambia participated in this study. Participants were recruited using simple random sampling. Each student completed a selfadministered questionnaire that obtained...

Background: WHO estimates that more than a billion people live with some form of disability and most of them live in the developing countries. The American Community Survey states that 5.6% of children between the ages of 5-17 live with disability. The situation in Ethiopia is not studied and most of the data on disability comes from the population census conducted every ten years. In this study we report on the impact of musculoskeletal (MSI) on the lives of school age children in Ethiopia....

This study sought to explore informetrics education in Library and Information Science (LIS) departments at universities in South Africa. We adopted the pragmatic epistemology and pluralistic ontology for our study. The mixed research methods we employed were survey and content analysis. The survey comprised a questionnaire by means of which we collected data from the LIS heads of department (HODs) and informetrics lecturers, and we employed content analysis to analyse the content of course...

Different natural, synthetic fabrics and their blend (silk, wool, cotton, nylon, polyester nylon/polyester and wool/polyester) were exposed at two selected sites in residential and industrial atmosphere in Cairo city (Dokki and Helwan) for a period of 4 months. The changes in the whiteness, mechanical properties of the exposed textiles were investigated in both places. Isothermal study was estimated using yellowness index values over exposed fabrics for a different time.

This study sought to determine whether training significantly influence the job performance of university teachers. The researcher utilized descriptive survey design and collected primary data from lecturers of five universities in Ghana. Findings indicate significant positive relationship between training and job performance. Furthermore, training was found to be predictors of the teachers’ task and organisational citizenship performance. This study recommends that management of...

Introduction: Road traffic crashes are common worldwide.However, most attention on RTA prevention has been focused on secondary and tertiary prevention.This study was undertaken to assess knowledge of road signs and attitudes to safety measures among secondary school students in Jos, Nigeria.Methodology: Descriptive cross-sectional study among 800 secondary school students selected using a multistage sampling method.Research instruments used were semi-structured interviewer-administered...

Overweight/obesity is an emerging health concern among African children. The aim of this study was to summarise available evidence from school-based interventions that focused on improving nutrition and physical activity knowledge, attitude, and behaviours, and weight status of children aged 6-15 years in the African context.Multiple databases were searched for studies evaluating school-based interventions of African origin that involved diet alone, physical activity alone, or multicomponent...

The performance of Nigerian students in the Senior School Certificate Mathematics Examinations over the years has not been encouraging. Studies have indicated that this is partly due to students’ lack of in-depth knowledge of some selected topics in mathematics. Pieces of evidence abound in literature and WAEC Chief examiner’s reports indicating that students performed poorly in set theory with Venn diagram. Therefore, this study examined the effects of think-pair-share on senior school...

The study sought to appraise the perception of science teachers' towards the implementation of entrepreneurial science education, the effects on individual students, society and the way forward in public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.The study adopted the survey research design.The population for the study were all science teachers in the 243 public secondary schools in the state.A sample size of two hundred and ten (210) was used.Three research questions were raised to guide...

The study investigated the differences among female students pursuing selected STEM programmes in a Science and Technology university in Ghana, in their perception of learning science. Three hundred and twenty-eight (328) final year female students offering computer science and information and communication technology, engineering, pharmacy, and medicine formed the sample. The research design was a descriptive cross-sectional survey, and a questionnaire was utilised for data collection. The...

In sub-Saharan-Africa (SSA), agriculture land-use supports the livelihoods of the majority of people. Land- use for agricultural-activity is an economic-activity that is highly dependent upon weather and climate that produce food and fibre necessary to sustain human life. Hence, land-use for agriculture is expected to be vulnerable to climate variability. This paper examines this relationship. The paper presents data and generated evidence-based decision making under risk and uncertainty as...

This study, undertaken at the Palestine Polytechnic University in Palestine, describes how problem-based learning (PBL) affects the Students’ Achievement in ‘analog electronics course’. Problems were designed to match real-life situations. Data of the experimental group learning outcome effects, were compared.. It was found that students who followed the PBL method learned to do research, learned better how to work in groups and developed greater confidence. Also what they learned was more...

A tracer study approaches are often designed to track individual teachers who have undergone the rigorous training so as to examine, evaluate and assess their performance and progress based on the training received. This paper, however, examined the use of Teaching and Learning Materials (TLM) methods in selected Basic Schools level by Social Studies teachers in Ghana in lesson delivery. It employed a tracer and qualitative study approach. In all, 20 Social Studies teachers were purposively...