Education articles from June 2009

Education archives from June 2009

Enhancing the performance of female students in spoken English.
June 22, 2009... Benson Idahosa University is a Christian University with the aim to change Nigeria and change the world by producing men and women who are sound in mind and body and who would by precept and example carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all the...

The principal in the teaching and learning process.
June 22, 2009... The Principal as Supervisor in the Curriculum To do well in supervision, the principal must develop good rapport with classroom teachers. Hostility and mistrust have no role to play when developing a quality curriculum. Negative attitudes...

Analyses of selected specific variables and teacher attrition.(Report)
June 22, 2009... Research indicates that factors useful in the prediction of why over 50% of teachers leave the profession during the first five years do exist. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of teacher attrition to...

Recommendations for use of SQ3R in introductory psychology textbooks.(Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Robinson (1970) developed the SQ3R study strategy to improve learning by incorporating higher-level study skills. SQ3R entails five steps: Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review. The first step involves surveying chapter headings and...

Feeling-of-knowing judgment and self-regulation of learning.(Report)
June 22, 2009... Feeling-of-knowing refers to individuals' judgments about their degree of accuracy for recognizing or knowing a task or answer and predicting one's knowledge (Dunlosky & Bjork, 2008; Finn & Metcalfe, 2008; Nelson & Leonesio, 1988; Pintrich,...

Factors within response to intervention implementation training associated with teacher efficacy beliefs.(Report)
June 22, 2009... Schools are continuously searching for effective methodologies to promote learning and success (Mennuti, Freeman, & Christner, 2006). One such area of intervention methodology that has received attention in the research literature is Response...

Teacher leadership skills: an analysis of communication apprehension.
June 22, 2009... Becoming aware of leadership skill strengths and weaknesses is crucial for growing as teachers, and for leading coworkers to higher levels of contribution at the workplace. As part of the requirements for a graduate class in leadership...

Student ratings of teaching effectiveness for faculty groups based on race and gender.(Report)
June 22, 2009... Introduction End-of-course student evaluations of teaching effectiveness have been conducted in most institutions of higher education since the 1960s. Student evaluations of teaching effectiveness are used primarily for feedback to faculty...

Using novel experiences in introductory psychology: insects 101.(Report)
June 22, 2009... At a time when many professors struggle with integrating experiential learning and successful coverage of content, students benefit from those teaching moments that are active, salient, and multidimensional (McKeachie, 1999). Our goal was to...

Primary student teachers' ideas of atoms and molecules: using drawings as a research method.
June 22, 2009... Determination and investigation of student misconceptions in chemistry education have been very important for the last two decades. Science educators have generally agreed that the chemical misconceptions should be investigated. Understanding...

Cultural factors affecting Chinese ESL students' academic learning.(English-as-a-second-language)(Report)
June 22, 2009... Introduction English-as-a-second-language (ESL) students have several challenges in their academic studies at North American universities. Studies have shown that these challenges come from different sources: students' inadequate English...

Influence of teacher characteristics on affective evaluation of social studies teachers in Nigeria.
June 22, 2009... Social studies as a subject encourages the development of socio-civic and personal-behaviour. Its focus is on the affective domain of learning. It would be necessary to ascertain success of instruction through an appropriate evaluation of this...

Making the case for field trips: what research tells us and what site coordinators have to say.(Report)
June 22, 2009... Field trips in the formative years are one of the most important things teachers can provide for their students. As we all know, children learn by doing. They remember what they have personally experienced. In addition, concept development is...

Implementing service learning in special education coursework: what we learned.
June 22, 2009... Implementing Service Learning in Special Education Coursework: What We Learned "Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results."--John Dewey ...

Teaching the mole concept using a conceptual change method at college level.(Report)
June 22, 2009... Chemistry is the science that deals with chemical change processes involving the mole, molecule, particle concepts as well as mathematical computations. As it is well known, the mole concept is used as a unit to calculate the amount of...

A study on primary school teacher burnout levels: the Northern Cyprus case.(Report)
June 22, 2009... An important phenomena of modern times, the term burnout was first coined in the 1970s in America to refer to the work-related depression that customer service workers experienced (Maslach, Schaufeli, Leiter; 2001:398). The concept was defined...

Anxiety of preservice teachers teaching students with disabilities: a preliminary investigation.
June 22, 2009... Prior to engaging in special education-related field-based coursework, preservice teachers across educational fields typically have expressed anxious feelings toward upcoming experiences in which they were to work with students with...

Awareness of biotechnological application: a study among university geography students.(Report)
June 22, 2009... Last decades, most researchers have focused on biotechnology and it is applicatons which is effects on people, animal, and plants, however their geographical environment was overlooked. People have different idea about biotechnogy and its...

The effects of sources of motivation on teachers' motivation levels.(Report)
June 22, 2009... Introduction Education is a process of behavioral change and development that occurs continuously throughout every stage of life. Teachers are active in every stage of that process. The formation of desirable behavior in the student is...

Improving the quality of education in Nigeria through effective inspection of schools.
June 22, 2009... It is a known fact that education is the instrument for economic empowerment and development of sustainable economy. No wonder, one of the national education goals is "the acquisition of appropriate skills and the development of mental,...

Multiple dimensions to the application for the effectiveness of team building in ROTC.(Reserve Officers' Training Corps)(Report)
June 22, 2009... The growth in competition and development globally as well as regionally means those organizations, whether small enterprises, non-profit organizations, multi-national corporations, government agencies, or military units, must maintain...

Lord shall be taught to Egypt: the girls' boarding school in Babelluk (1892-1923).(Report)
June 22, 2009... "The Kingdom, O Christ, is a Kingdom of all ages, and Thy dominion from generation to generation" (i) The immediate and controlling aim in all Missionary work is the awakening of faith in individual souls, and the raising up of a community...

To teach or not to teach: the ethics of metadata.(Report)
June 22, 2009... In a recent television commercial, Dan Hesse, President of Sprint stated an important point: technology is only great if you know how to use it. Since the advent of the computer, schools have done their best to teach students to use these...