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In Ethiopia where the burden of epilepsy is highest among school age children and teenagers, and where people with epilepsy (PWE) and their relatives suffers from high level of perceived stigma, there had not been any study that assessed the knowledge, attitude and practice of teachers towards PWE. This study aims to assess and understand the social and demographic determinants of knowledge, attitude and practice of teachers towards PLW in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Multistage cluster sampling...

Field experiments were conducted during two growing seasons to study the influence of drought stress at pod-filling stage i.e., during 91 to 105 days after sowing (DAS) on yield and yield components of certain groundnut varieties of Ethiopia. Drought response index (DRI) which is the ratio of the shelled seed yield (qt ha^-1) under drought to yield under control conditions, was used to categorize Ethiopian groundnut varieties into drought tolerant (DT) and drought susceptible (DS) types....

The present study compared the relationship between writing dyslexia condition and academic performance in upper primary learners in Kenyan public schools in Changamwe Sub County, Mombasa County. Correlational Ex-Post Facto research design was used based on three major examinations done in Term 1 and Term 2. The sample for the study consisted of 160 learners and 43 teachers from six different schools. The study used a purposive sampling method. Questionnaires were used to collect data from...

<p>Students spend most of the time they should have spent on reading on social media, meanwhile social media should be a tool for students to enhance their learning styles and improve their achievement in chemistry. Literatures revealed that both learning styles and social media affect the academic performance of students either positively or negatively, however little or no attempt has been made to investigate the effect of both on the academic achievement of students in chemistry....

Since the inception of testing, the examination of test bias has been discussed and debated in the literature. As new tests are developed or old tests are revised, part of the standardization process involves the examination of gender and ethnic item bias. The exploration of construct invariance across different ethnic and gender groups, however, is not part of the test construction or validation process. This study investigated factorial invariance of the Cattell–Horn–Carroll (CHC)-based...

Social protection can reduce HIV-risk behavior in general adolescent populations, but evidence among HIV-positive adolescents is limited. This study quantitatively tests whether social protection is associated with reduced unprotected sex among 1060 ART-eligible adolescents from 53 government facilities in South Africa. Potential social protection included nine 'cash/cash-in-kind' and 'care' provisions. Analyses tested interactive/additive effects using logistic regressions and marginal...

As much as 66% of the Nile River flow that reaches Egypt originates in the Highlands of the Ethiopian Blue Nile Basin (BNB). This imbalance in water availability poses a threat to water security in the region and could be impacted by climate change. This study coupled a watershed model analysis with bias corrected and downscaled Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) climate data to assess the potential impact of climate change on...

ABSTRACTThis ethnographic inquiry examines the cultural congruence between home and school in rural Ghana, exploring the cultural norms of child-rearing practices within families and the institution of schooling. The data illustrate both the agreement between home and school in regard to discipline practices and instruction in morality, while simultaneously highlighting a power differential between home and school. The authors highlight the power dynamics between home and school, and discuss...

Disability, CBR and Inclusive Development aims to enhance knowledge in the field of disability and inclusive development, addressing the needs of practitioners, policy makers, DPOs and the scientific community.

An analysis of the history of primary education in Belgium by Depaepe et al. in 2000 has demonstrated how the idea of “order” structured classroom reality in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This “order” is not only visible in the internal organisation of schooling (e.g. division into year classes, a structured timetable, the use of the didactics of teacher-centred instruction), but also in the design of the curriculum. Good behaviour and moral decency were consistently...

Saving plays a crucial role in the process of economic growth. However, one main reason why poor people often do not save is that they lack financial knowledge. Improving the savings culture of children through financial education is a promising way to develop savings attitudes and behavior early in life.This study is one of the first that examines the effects of social and financial education training and a children's club developed by Aflatoun on savings attitudes and behavior among...

Abstract. This study evaluates climate change impacts on water resources using an ensemble of six Regional Climate Models (RCMs)-Global Climate Models (GCMs) in the Dano catchment (Burkina Faso). The applied climate datasets were performed in the framework of the COordinated Regional climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX-Africa) project. After evaluation of the historical runs of the climate models ensemble, a statistical bias correction (Empirical Quantile Mapping) was applied to daily...

Background: In developing countries, men are sometimes stereotypically perceived as uninterested in maternal health, but their reproductive health roles have been widely recognized. Some studies have suggested that effective communication with men on safe motherhood can yield behavior changes capable of reducing maternal deaths. Aim: This study’s objective was to study the impact of an educational session on the knowledge and attitudes of married men regarding maternal deaths. Design:...

About 3ieThe International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) promotes evidence-informed equitable, inclusive and sustainable development.We support the generation and effective use of high-quality evidence to inform decision-making and improve the lives of people living in poverty in low-and middle-income countries.We provide guidance and support to produce, synthesise and quality-assure evidence of what works, for whom, how, why and at what cost.3ie impact evaluations 3ie-supported...

Textbooks are not only meant to deliver subject knowledge; they are also a medium to convey universal and community-specific values. Aiming to explore the social and emotional development goals of English for Ethiopia Student Textbook Grade 9, this study reviews the content and activities of the textbook by searching for embedded peace values and prejudices. Textual, contextual and sociological discourse analyses were conducted to characterise, understand and explain the nature of the...

Background. Clinical bedside teaching is more effective when done at the bedside. The number of medical schools in Ethiopia has increased tenfold in 8 years to meet the Millennium Development Goals. The increased number of students at the patient’s bedside has been met with mixed feelings by patients. Objective. To determine patients’ perceptions of bedside teaching during their admission to the medical and surgical wards at Mekelle University Hospital, Ethiopia. Methods. A 32-item...

This study examined whether higher sensitivity to reward predicted higher fat and sugar intake among a sample of South African students at a university in the Western Cape and explored whether this relationship was mediated by food cue responsivity. It also examined whether sensitivity to punishment predicted higher fat and sugar intake among those who eat in response to anxiety. University students ( n = 320) completed a series of questionnaires that measured sensitivity to reward and...

An empirical study was conducted in Cape Town – South Africa – to determine whether social values (family, parents’ work and education) have an impact on entrepreneurship students in the universities of Cape Town, University of Stellenbosch, and University of the Western Cape, as well as Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The paper reviewed the literature about the role social values plays in the people’s lives. Respondents were the entrepreneurship university students. Data were...