Aims: This study examined how the pre-service teachers with strong subject matter competence quantitatively and qualitatively differed from their counterparts in teaching practices. Methodology: Thirteen pre-service physical education teachers (8 females and 5 males) who enrolled...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/13306
The study looked into the perception of basic science teachers on the challenges and prospects of creativity in a basic science classroom. The researchers adopted a survey research design. Random sampling technique was used to select 100 basic science teachers from secondary scho...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/11522
Questionnaires were distributed to 49 stable schizophrenia patients with work experience who were either hospitalized in an open ward of a psychiatric hospital or were outpatients of the hospital to gain understanding of schizophrenia patients’ experiences at work, reasons for no...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/13039
This paper argues that the absence of moral and religious education from the curriculum of schools in Cameroon is due to the secular nature of the educational system and such absence has led to the weak moral health of the country. Hence, there is need for holistic education whic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/13020
This paper is intended to investigate the role of syntax in developing the EFL and ESL students' higher order thinking skills (HOTS): Application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation / judgment as stated in Bloom’s taxonomy. The researcher maintains that syntax, as the study of t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/10231
Permanent closures of neighbourhood elementary and secondary schools first noticeably occurred in the 1970s in North America and Western Europe. At that time, however, nobody could have predicted how many schools would subsequently be closed – and will still be closed – due to de...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/13266
The high loan recovery rates, which are almost uniformly above 95%, show that the effectiveness of Microfinance Institutions may be due in considerable measure to the social capital that the Microfinance Institutions build and foster. This social capital is an asset capable of do...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/13378
Acquisition of grammar is a topic of discussion within educational system. Pupils at school show strong difficulties in independent writing production, which depends, among other things, on general knowledge of basics of grammar. No original strategies or innovation methods are p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/12586
Starting from de current educational system in Romania the study aims to develop a systemic pattern of the student-centred education. The student-centred education is built as an operational pattern from several pillars: knowledge, creativity, motivation, action in a broader syst...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/12855
Background: Cameroon has the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence of 5.3% in the West and Central African Sub-region, with women being the most infected. The biological and socio-cultural vulnerability of women to HIV infection is not new. A proven effective female controlled prevention t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/13048