Education articles from December 2008

Education archives from December 2008

Alabama elementary principals' perceptions of bullying.(Report)
December 22, 2008... Is bullying a major problem in today's schools? According to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, approximately 3 in 10 children are affected as bully, victim, or both (2001). The National Youth Violence Prevention...

Caring for foster children in the south. Why they did not have even one person to care for them.
December 22, 2008... According to Courtey (1999) foster care remains poorly studied and poorly understood however there is an abundance of newspaper articles and information on the TV news. In The New York Times just last November 2007 we read such titles as...

Assessment of the inquiry-based project application in science education upon Turkish science teachers' perspectives.
December 22, 2008... Contemporary international economic competition and social, scientific and technological developments have significantly changed ways of living all over the world. In the countries aiming at constructing powerful generations, it has been...

Conducting a rural school district transition fair: successes and challenges for students with disabilities.(Report)
December 22, 2008... This paper provides an overview of the vision of a transition fair and how that vision became a reality. Included are the success of and challenges encountered in the process as well as discussion of literature that was utilized in the planning...

A comparative study on children's perceptions of the child rights in the Turkish community of Turkey and Northern Cyprus.(Case study)
December 22, 2008... Childhood is a socio-cultural concept, which is one of the natural and unchangeable links of the chain of life. Therefore, the meaning ascribed to both the childhood life and concept of child has varied through the ages. Children were...

Factors affecting the development of analogical reasoning in young children: a review of literature.
December 22, 2008... "Analogical reasoning has been of special interest to philosophers and scientists since Aristotle" (Pauen & Wilkening, 1997, p. 90). It is considered to be a hallmark of human intelligence (Holyoak, Junn, & Billman, 1984) and a critical...

Evaluation of teachers for restructured elementary curriculum (grades 1 to 5).
December 22, 2008... Elementary school curriculum in Turkish Education System has been changed several times in the republic era. After establishment of Republic of Turkey in 1923, elementary school curriculum was restructured in 1924, 1926, 1936, 1948, 1962 and...

Living the "tipping point": concurrent teacher leader and principal preparation.
December 22, 2008... In a 2007 edition of the NCPEA Yearbook, Zigler and Allen allude to the principalship and its associated training as being at a "tipping point," a reference to Malcom Gladwell's (2000) book, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a...

Extrinsic motivation as correlates of work attitude of the Nigerian police for: implications for counseling.
December 22, 2008... The basic concept that comes to mind in respect of the human nature is the belief that man is a rational entity. This mean that man knows source of his conduct, hence he is usually responsible. Another concept about man views is that man is an...

Statistics anxiety and business statistics: the international student.(Report)
December 22, 2008... Background Statistics anxiety has been defined as "feelings of anxiety encountered when taking a statistics course or doing statistical analyses; that is gathering, processing and interpreting data" (Cruise et. al., 1985). Statistics...

The educated elite and the leadership initiative in postcolonial West Africa. A reading of Chinua Achebe's a man of the people.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2008... Narration is done from the worldview of the educated elite, arrogantly represented by Odili, who begins the narration against a background of ill formed images of the main actors involved in the conflict. For instance, his view of the masses,...

Variation in general instructional objectives among instructors at two community colleges in a western state.(Report)
December 22, 2008... Comprehensive pubic community colleges serve multiple educational purposes for their diverse citizens today. Community colleges have non-selective admission policies and, therefore, provide open access to anyone with or without a formal high...

Management of universal basic education scheme (U.B.E.) for qualitative education in Nigeria.(Report)
December 22, 2008... In realization of the role which education plays in national development, the government of Nigeria has ventured into various educational policies and programmes with the great expectation that, the felt socio-economic and political needs of...

The effect of gender on the construction of backward inferences.
December 22, 2008... Successful reading comprehension requires that the reader not only identifies and understands individual text words, and processes the individual sentences of the text by detecting their syntactic structures, but also identifies the relations...

Continuous progress schools see the "whole child".
December 22, 2008... Continuous Progress Schools are everywhere throughout the United States. In each school the format may look a little different but the same foundations are in place. Some common elements in most Continuous Progress Schools are Personalized...

E-learning: paradigm shift in education.
December 22, 2008... Higher education is beginning to change in response to providing educational opportunities to an increasing diverse population of students. A new type of university emerged in the last 25 years which John Daniel (1996) thinks will hold lessons...

Quality assurance in Nigerian University education and credentialing.
December 22, 2008... According to BBC English Dictionary quality means degree of excellence, and of a high standard (Harper Collins; 1992). It is the combination of all the attributes and peculiar features that make one or an object fit for a purpose. In the...

Children of neglect with attachment and time perception deficits: strategies and interventions.(Report)
December 22, 2008... Research has shown a link between child maltreatment and psychological problems with disorganized and/or insecure attachment (Pearce & Pezzot-Pearce, 1994). Issues of attachment, including abuse and neglect, have been recognized in a cluster of...

Keeping school: teacher transfers within a large district.(Report)
December 22, 2008... For some time, we have known that nothing matters more to student achievement than access to skillful teaching, a practice that often takes a number of years to develop (Lee, Smith, & Croniger, 1995). Yet, education remains a profession plagued...