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There is significant attention to the growing elderly African American population and estimating who and how many within this population will be affected by cognitive impairment.The etiology of cognitive impairment has not been well studied in African Americans and the contribution of genetic and environmental influences to cognitive impairment is not clear.We calculated concordance rates and heritability for cognitive impairment in 95 same-sexed pairs of African American twins from the...

The need to ensure quality teachers that will implement basic education motivated this study. Teacher education in Nigeria is aimed at providing trainees with intellectual and professional background adequate for their assignment and to make them adaptable to any changing situations in the country and the world. This goal remains a mere wish as most teachers do not exhibit the required competencies needed, especially to teach at the foundation level. This calls into question the quality of...

This paper investigated the causes, consequences and control of students’ crises in public and private universities in Nigeria. Students’ crises involve making protest by students’ in pressing their demand on various issues with university authorities. In this regard, the study population comprised all the 81 universities in the country from which a sample of 9 universities (6 public and 3 private) was taken. Out of the 8400 members of staff and 5600 final year students in the public...

This paper examines the implication of the growing educational opportunities for women in Nigeria. Although bias has existed from the traditional Nigerian society against women, recent events especially in education reveal a conquering of this deep-rooted prejudice. Enrollment figures particularly in the last ten years show a remarkable bridging of the gap between the genders. In other words, more and more women are acquiring tertiary education. However, it is the contention of this paper...

In Tunisia, even though it is an Arab-Muslim country, the teaching of evolution is not forbidden. Nevertheless, the Muslim perspective makes learning about the biological basis of evolution difficult because of the harmony that exists between religion and science. Tunisian students have a mixed misconception: They explain the diversity of life as both a result of God's works and a result of evolutionary processes at the same time. This paper presents the external evaluation that assesses the...

Learning can be enhanced, among other conditions, through teachers’ effective design of their classes by taking into consideration peer assessment and selfreflection. In order to introduce this notion and practice, a study that passes through five phases was conducted in three regions of Ethiopia: Addis Ababa, Amhara and Oromia involving eight primary schools. Phase one dealt with introducing the concept of peer and self-reflections in relation to enhancing active learning in primary...

Eating disorders are a major source of physical and psychosocial morbidity among young women. The present study was two-fold; one was to confirm if such eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia which have plagued the developed western world have engulfed the women of Nigeria and to identify young Nigerian female students most at risk of subsequently developing an eating disorder. Anorexia and bulimia have for long been considered a western disorder or the disorder of the developed world...

This representative study on living conditions among people with disabilities in Zimbabwe is the result of an international co-operation between Southern Africa Federation of the Disabled (SAFOD), Norwegian Federation of Organisations of Disabled People (FFO), University of Zimbabwe, and SINTEF. Organisations of people with disabilities and individuals with disabilities have played a key role during design development and data collection. The survey comprises a study on living conditions...

5 ml of venous blood was aseptically collected from 112 consenting, apparently healthy students of Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma, Nigeria. The enrollees were 62 males and 50 females (age range, 15 – 44 years). The Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR) and Immunochromatographic tests (Spodex Diagnostic Company) were used to screen and confirm the presence of syphilitic antibodies in their serum and plasma. Out of the 112 samples, the males had a higher rate of seropositivity (17.74%) than the females...

The purpose of this study is to determine how adult and non formal education is financed in Nigeria; and to examine areas or forms of and the problems of financing adult and non-formal education in Nigeria. Survey research was used in order to carry out the study. Three hundred and twenty five (325) respondents from government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private individuals were sampled. Three research questions were generated from the literature review, questionnaire on...

Macro-invertebrate assemblages were used as bioindicators to assess the ecological integrity of Rivers Kisat (influenced by urban development) and Kisian (influenced by agriculture) using community attributes and the Index of Biotic Integrity. Six stations, three per river, were selected to correspond to different impact types and intensities along the rivers. Physico-chemical parameters and nutrients were determined for each station on a monthly basis from November 2007 to April 2008....

The paper reports on an exploratory study on the quality of education which attempts to identify and analyse classroom practices in a few Grade 5 (CM1) classes in Burkina Faso primary schools. The study is grounded on a model of the teaching-learning encounter and a framework for summarising the characteristics of a “good” teacher and an ideal classroom that underline the central place of classroom processes in a definition of quality education. The findings from the questionnaires and...

This study investigated how school, classroom and pupil factors infl uence pupil achievement in mathematics, English and Chichewa. Tests in the three subjects were administered to 6,000 pupils in 100 primary schools. The results indicate the follows: low achievement in English and mathematics; greater achievement in urban schools, especially in English; better pupil performance in schools with teacher pupil ratios below 50 in standard 7; better pupil performance in classes with trained...

This article critically analyses the mechanisms and procedures that facilitate the effectiveness of the current teacher appraisal system in Botswana secondary schools. Teachers in schools, in this case in Botswana secondary schools have to undergo appraisal every year for both accountability and developmental purposes. In this article, the author critically analyzes the extent to which the mechanisms and procedures are in place and adequate to facilitate the effectiveness of the current...

Introduction 1.1 Critical Factors in Primary School Performance in Ugandan Schools Prior to the introduction of the Universal Primary Education (UPE), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in collaboration with the Ugandan Government, had undertaken to improve the quality of teaching and learning in primary education. Some of the activities in the project were designed to equip primary schools with the instructional material, textbooks and syllabi they required....

The question of relevance regarding education in human society is perennial. In the developing countries, education is considered to be a panacea for development. In Kenya, various efforts at curricular review and reform have time and again been undertaken to address the relevance of education. This paper attempts to analyze Nyerere’s theory of education with the view to render salient ideas that can contribute towards the formulation of worthwhile theories of education in the context of...