This research examines the functionality of homework in rural Zimbabwean primary schools. The research acknowledges that, whereas homework is intended to extend the learning from school to home for the benefit of learners, in reality, is this happening in rural schools where a nu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/2683
Aims: Parents are important stakeholders in school-based health promotion programmes. This study aimed to understand the perceptions of parents of a primary school-based healthy and sustainable food programme. It specifically sought to examine the perceived effects of the program...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/4211
Donor funding has helped enroll in school most children of low-income countries. However, students get little schooling and few opportunities to encode and consolidate information. Many fail to learn and automatize the small units needed for more complex skills, such as reading....
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/4311
Aims: To find out the extent to which various factors affect the job satisfaction and motivation. Study Design: The study used a questionnaire survey. Place and Duration: The British University in Egypt, between April and May, 2013. Methodology: Participants were 103 academic sta...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/5156
Many studies have explored attitudes to communication skills learning before and after a teaching intervention but there remains a dearth of published longitudinal studies. An area currently unexplored is medical student’s attitudes to communication skills teaching and learning o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/4075
Aims: This study was designed (i) to investigate the relationship between cognitive entry characteristics (CEC), semester examination scores and student’s achievement in mathematics and (ii) to find out the predictive strength of CEC and semester examination scores on college stu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/4379
Aims: 1. To investigate the effects of concrete learning aids (Colour Balls) with Student Teams-Achievement Division (STAD) cooperative learning (CBCL) method on Form Four Arts Stream students’ performance in probability; 2. To find out students’ perception towards the use of CBC...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/5177
The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of implicit focus on form through input flooding on structural accuracy. To fulfill the purpose of the study, 43 Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners of one of the language institutes were chosen by means of administering...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/4452
Aims: The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of various success factors related to the process of integrating occupational risk prevention in schools in achieving a series of benefits and advantages in the students’ future work lives, according to the experience...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/3907
Aims: To investigate nursing students’ evaluation of the impact of collaborative group work in a web-based learning environment. Study Design: Correlational Design. Place and Duration of Study: The study took place in an online, elective “Multimedia Design for Instruction” course...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2013/3709