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This study sought to establish the influence of school culture on students' attitude towards the learning of mathematics subject among ward secondary schools in Arusha District, Tanzania, through descriptive statistics and Pearson Product Moment Correlational Coefficient, using the SPSS.The study sample was 297 respondents out of 1,300 form three students from seven out of 17 secondary schools.Validity was ensured through expert review and the pilot study's analysis yielded the Cronbach's...

The teaching of performing arts at the Basic Schools in Ghana is geared towards the acquisition of skills by learners. Apart from the use of various techniques for teaching the performing arts, the use of the instructional materials is eminent and legitimate for the pupils to have exposure to these materials in order to have first-hand information. However, the selection of instructional materials for teaching and learning of the performing arts, a strand (an aspect) of the creative arts at...

Higher Education institutions have faced many challenges since the onset of COVID 19 pandemic with closures that extended to more than three months. Coronavirus pandemic pushed universities to switch to online classes from the conventional traditional pedagogies. While the work to transition face-to-face instruction to online environments would mean a lot of technological preparedness among lecturers, students, infrastructure; these initiatives have at the same time lead to established...

Using Vincent Tinto’s persistence framework and human agency perspective, we ask how economic challenges impact students’ sense of self-efficacy, their sense of belonging and students’ perception of the curriculum. In times of economic difficulties, the importance students attach to education often declines, as they fear to be examples of graduates without jobs. Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University’s (ZEGU) unique Christian outlook is discussed as somewhat stifling the students’ sense of...

The novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) caused disruptions in the delivery of higher education around the globe. To understand how universities and students are dealing with the sudden change from in-person course delivery to online format, this cross-sectional mixed-method study aimed to (a) ascertain the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students’ ability to access online learning; (b) examine how college students adapted to changes in the learning/teaching environment; and (c)...

Earth and Space Science Open Archive PosterOpen AccessYou are viewing the latest version by default [v1]Preliminary earthquake detections from seismic stations installed on Bioko Island, Equatorial GuineaAuthorsAmandaLoughiDChristineSealingSee all authors Amanda LoughiDCorresponding Author• Submitting AuthorDrexel UniversityiDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8860-1307view email addressThe email was not providedcopy email addressChristine SealingDrexel Universityview email addressThe email was not providedcopy email address

Teacher training is important for both pre-service and in-service teachers to allow them to increase their competence and confidence in teaching about HIV/AIDS in schools. The link between instruction and culture in HIV/AIDS teaching and learning within African contexts is subject to debate. Some argue that African culture is adaptable to Western pedagogic styles, while others maintain that the two are dichotomised. For this study, a qualitative research approach was used to explore the...

This study responds to the disruptive environment in which educational institutions globally find themselves in the COVID-19 lockdown, where remote-based teaching was adapted to ensure continuous learning. Globally, over 90% of learners are affected by the closure of learning institutions. The study evaluates the digital transformation necessitated by the COVID-19 lockdown through the perception of faculty. Despite the rapid technological developments and high adoption of technology-mediated...

The purpose of this study was to establish parents’ perceptions of the involvement of males as early childhood development (ECD) teachers. The research adopted a qualitative approach and used a case study design to allow interaction with the subjects and to draw conclusions based on their diverse perceptions. A sample was drawn from the Khami District population that comprised 10 parents, four administrators, four female teachers and two male teachers. Two sampling techniques, namely...

The Drakensberg, the largest mountain range of southern Africa, is currently facing a crisis from its changing climate, with the certainty of future woes looming. This paper investigates how the climate of the Drakensberg mountain region has changed between 1960 and 2016 and the implications that this change has for the social-ecological systems of the region and southern Africa as a whole. The paper uses temperature and precipitation data to conduct time series and spatial analyses and...

Older people in Ghana suffer from a wide range of disabilities including visual, physical, and hearing with serious ramifications on their quality of life. Therefore, this paper examines the psychological health quality of life (PHQOL) of older people with disability in selected Districts in the Upper West Region of Ghana. Through a census survey, questionnaires were used to obtain data from 810 respondents.Independent-samples t-test and one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used to...

The improvement of students’ English proficiency depends on the level of teaching English language and the competency of teachers in teaching career. The purpose of this study therefore, was to investigate the relationship between teachers’ competency in English language and students’ English language proficiency within secondary schools of Karongi in Rwanda. The study adopted correlation research design research design. Data collection tools were questionnaire and interview guide. The...

This study sought to establish the role of teachers and parents on students' career choice preparedness based on gender among Secondary Schools in Arusha District, Tanzania.The study employed the descriptive research design.The sample was 314 extracted from 2200 form three students through simple random sampling.The validity of the questionnaire was done through expert review and reliability results were above 0.7 Cronbach's Alpha for each variable.Ethical considerations were achieved...

Abstract. East African forested mountain regions are vital in generating and supplying water resources to adjacent arid and semi-arid lowlands. However, these ecosystems are under pressure from both climate and land use changes. This study aimed to analyze the effects of climate and land use changes on water yield using the Budyko framework as a first-order conceptual framework assuming steady-state for pristine/protected forested areas. For nine selected forested water towers in East...

The study aims at investigating the degree of accuracy in describing the character of mental disabilities in modern Arabic drama. The study takes the Egyptian Film Toot-Toot as an example. Toot -Toot is a film about a mentally handicapped heroine, “Kareema”, who was sexually abused by a wealthy man, and she was also socially harassed by the people of her community. The study tries to prove that there is an accurate stereotypical representation of the mentally up-normal characters in Arabic n...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic created a situation for the implementation of emergency remote learning. This meant that as a lecturer at a traditionalist University of contact sessions, the pandemic forced us to teach remotely through online methods of communication, using online lectures, narrated powerpoints, voice clips, podcasts, interviews and interactive videos. The assessments were conducted online from assignments to multiple choice questions, which forced the lecturers to think...

This study deviates from extant studies by examining the effect of shadow economy (SE) on environmental pollution, and the role institutional indicators play in moderating the effect in West Africa between 1992 and 2015. Specifically, the study employed three institutional indicators (corruption control [COR], law and order [LAW], and bureaucratic quality [BUQ]) to mediate the effect and also determine its threshold values. SE is measured using Multiple Indicators Multiple Causes (MIMIC)...

This study was intended to examine the effect of teacher scaffolding on grade nine students’ paragraph writing performance in Meneguzer secondary school, Amhara-Ethiopia. The study employed a quasi-experimental research design with explanatory sequential mixed methods of data collection and analysis. There were experimental and control groups of students including 40 students in each group. Test, questionnaire and interview were used to gather data. The quantitative data were analysed using...