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Shah, Zubair Ahmad; Malik, Mushtaq Ahmad; Akhtar, Javed Hassan – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2020
Quality of science education is under the consideration of educationists and researchers. Achievement in science subjects, which is one of the indicators of quality of science education, determines not only the students' performance but it also helps the teachers to evaluate their teaching strategies. This study is an effort to explore the factors…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Performance Factors, Foreign Countries, Student Characteristics
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Ojukwu, M. O. – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2017
The major aim of this study was to investigate the effect of insecurity of school environment on the academic performance of secondary school students in Imo state, Nigeria. A total of 1000 made up of 500 each of male and female students responded to a self-structured validated questionnaire designed for the study. Two research questions and two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, School Safety, Academic Achievement
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Shofoyeke, A. D.; Omotayo, O. T.; Ikuerowo, J. R. – African Higher Education Review, 2014
The National Policy on Education (2013) describes education as an instrument for national development and social change. Teachers are very important in implementing quality education that can bring about national development. However, no education can rise beyond the quality of its teachers. Pre-service teachers are produced by colleges and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, College Outcomes Assessment, Elementary Education
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Tagoe, Michael Ayitey – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2011
The Millennium Development Goals launched in 2001 provide a worldwide agenda to reduce poverty by 2015. Though the eight goals provide synergies for the rapid reduction of poverty, the MDGs have come under criticism for being too narrow and sometimes leaving out critical aspects of human development and well-being. Although the MDGs address some…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Economic Progress, Poverty, Illiteracy
Shafiq, M. Najeeb – Online Submission, 2012
Little is known about the educational consequences in Iraq during the U.S.-led invasion of 2003-2010. This study examines school enrollment based on the 2007 Iraq Household Socio-Economic Survey. There are three main findings. First, a population-weighted analysis indicates that the school enrollment rate (72.3 percent) is lower than past Iraqi…
Descriptors: Enrollment Rate, Multivariate Analysis, Foreign Countries, Enrollment
Fawcett, Caroline; Hartwell, Ash; Israel, Ron – EQUIP3, 2010
This report offers the first systematic analysis of out-of-school youth populations. In so doing, it estimates the youth bulge worldwide and measures key characteristics of out-of-school youth for sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. In addition, as examples of how existing data can be used for analysis at the national and subnational levels, the…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Foreign Countries, Profiles, Out of School Youth