iosr-JRME   Volume-6 ~ Issue-3 ~ May-June 2016

Abstract: This study was conducted to know a. How the subjectivity of conventional practical methods of evaluation in Medical education are overcome in OSPE, b. How OSPE helps to find out the lacuna in teaching by teachers and understanding the exercises to the fullest by the students and C. How OSPE acts as a tool for knowing the competency of a student...........

Keywords: OSPE, Skills, competency

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Abstract: This research entitle Inpacts on working ability and, leadership and compensation as well as the Leadership towards the Motivation and Performance of the school principles at the private vocational schools, East Kalimantan Indonesia.Management of vocational high school of private sector in Indonesia in general and in Balikpapan specially face highly uncertain condition. For the reason this penomena become to draw to be checked, to considering ability of headmaster have very important role how far ability work obtained compensation headmaster and leadership influence motivation work and improve headmaster performance.........

Keyword : Working Ability, Compensation, Leadership and Motivation to Performance of the vocational school principles

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Abstract: There is a general decay in human and material resources in Nigeria tertiary institutions due to poor funding. The tertiary education Trust Fund (TETFUND) is an intervention agency under the Education Trust Fund meant to assist all tertiary institutions in Nigeria to develop with the provision of infrastructural facilities. The Education Trust Fund (ETF) was a way out of crises in the educational sector in Nigeria. Funding of education has become a huge challenge, hence the lande committee report and subsequently the negotiations between unions and the government.......

Keyword : Funding, resources, TETFUND, infrastructural facilities, tertiary institutions

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Abstract: The purpose of the study was to investigate application of child centred approaches on teaching and learning of mathematics activities in preschool centres in West Pokot County. Constructivist theories advanced by Piaget and Vygotsky was used. A descriptive survey design was used. The target population comprised of teachers and head teacher drawn from 417 ECDE Centres in West Pokot County. The teachers and head teachers were selected through stratified random sampling and purposive sampling techniques. In selecting participants for the study.........

Keyword : ECDE, mathematics activities, child-centered approaches.

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Abstract: The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Nigeria has adopted Computer-Based Testing (CBT) for her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for prospective tertiary education students. The study sought to find out the threats and opportunities encounter during this examination by students taking Physics. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The population of the study consists of fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty- eight (15688) Senior Secondary two and three (SS 2 & SS 3) students who took and who will take Physics in JAMB UTME in Umuahia Education Zone of Abia State Nigeria.........

Keyword :JAMB and UTME, Physics, Computer-Based Testing, Threats and Opportunities..

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Abstract: This study learner centered teaching strategies as a way to improve secondary school students' attitudes towards physics employed a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study is all senior secondary school two (SSS2) students in Umuahia Education Zone of Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State. Purposive sampling technique was used to select one hundred (100) senior secondary school two (SSS2) students from four coeducational senior secondary schools in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Umuahia Education Zone of Abia State..........

Keyword : Science, Physics, Teaching Strategy, Learner centered strategy and attitude

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Abstract: The main purpose of this essay is to argue about the coexistence of multiple structures to act in the same situation in similar circumstances. The reflections are based and exemplify to give support to what would be a new way of analyzing learning from an antagonistic parallelism and configuration of various cognitive structures that are selected unconsciously to act in the same situation, but under different circumstances.

Keywords: conscious, unconscious, learning, memory, structure.

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Abstract: This work sought to examine how biological stages of development and the environment of a child provide for learning experiences and as such, are seen as factors or determinant which affects child's intellectual growth/development. As an academic subject, different view on childhood development has been reviewed for the purpose of this work

Keywords: intellectual development, physical abilities, environmental experiences, theorist's gender

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Abstract: Internationalization is now high priority for Indian policy makers and education providers. Leading education providers in India have acknowledged internationalization to be the most eminent feature of higher education going ahead and have made efforts towards internationalizing their institution. Similarly, policy makers and education agencies have also taken initiatives to promote the 'internationalization' of Indian higher education............

Keywords: Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), Indian Higher Education, Internationalization of Higher Education (IHE), Initiatives, Internationalization, Pathways.

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Abstract: The present study investigated factors that might affect college students going back to school after being suspended in Taiwan based on the institutional research data of KS University. Results showed that the grades, enrolled department, entrance method, academic performance and the interaction between grades and enrolled department are the factors that significantly affect whether college students go back to school after being suspended in Taiwan.......

Keywords: Factors; Back to school; Suspension; Linear information model; Institutional research

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Abstract: In this paper the authors carry out a multiple criteria evaluation of 40 characteristics of e-learning platforms, in order to find the most suitable to meet the needs of an e-learning course for higher schools with Agricultural and Forestry content. The evaluation data came from a Delphi survey method, where experts' opinions are reflected. These data were introduced in ELECTRE III, a multi-criteria analysis (MCA) application. For each of the criteria, rating of the characteristics, such as Content, Structure, Communication.....

Keywords: Agriculture and Forestry Higher Schools, e-learning platforms, Delphi survey, ELECTRE III Multicriteria analysis.

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Abstract: Zimbabwe Open University introduced myVista learning and tutoring platform in 2012. Preliminary training for lecturers was carried out by the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) department. The plan was that, after the training sessions, the lecturers could use this new delivery method to impart new knowledge to their students through online discussions. The students could share ideas on any course-relevant topics on the myVista platform and the lecturer could guide them to the correct answers......

Keywords: myVista, e-learning, ICT, e-resources and e-instruction.

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