School engagement is defined primarily in relation to the participation of the student in academic achievement, and it is viewed as a multidimensional and integrative construct, or macroconstruct made up of several dimensions. The most repeated typology recognizes three specific...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/25276
Aims: While academic misconduct has been the subject of a growing body of research, there is a lack in empirically based literature on how academic institutions are managing misconduct. We present a preliminary examination of academic misconduct patterns and how they were treated...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/25666
The goal of this study is to identify developmental level of symbolic actions at perceptual level. 20 preschool children between 5 and 6 years old from the city of Bogota were included in the study. The level of symbolic development was assessed by application of qualitative prot...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/24459
The purpose of this study is to analyse prospective teachers’ views about the nature of science. The study has also revealed the students’ profiles in the sub-categories of the nature of science according to some variables (gender, age and department). The study is a descriptive...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/25202
Aim: The aim of this study was to understand in depth the differences that exist between adolescents in foster care and adolescents living with their families (living with mother and father; living with mother or father; living with mother and stepfather; living with father and s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/24093
Educational researches, over the last few decades, have focused on the debate over which classroom pedagogy best encourages learning: the match approach, the mismatch approach or the balanced approach. Most studies on this issue appear to support the argument that the matching be...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/24810
Vision 2020 is the objective of the Nigerian government to grow the size of Nigeria’s economy from a position of 40th in 2005 to the 20th Nation in the world by the year 2020. The drafters of the vision had believed that by 2020 Nigeria will be one of the 20 largest economies in...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/8101
Violence against women (VAW) is a universal phenomenon which has gained a lot of attention from policy makers, donors, researchers and government agencies as well as civil societies. In spite of the efforts by various international agencies, government and non - governmental org...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/24010
Aim: The article analyses sexuality and quality of life among people with mental and physical disabilities in the Italian context. It is aimed at contributing to a social debate over the sexual assistant for disabled people, as this professional is not still present in Italy. The...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/24984
Aim: The study examined the relationship between familial dysfunctionality and school going children conduct behavior problems. The variables were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Study Design: This study is a descriptive survey. It adopted expo-facto design. It mwas carried...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/23984