iosr-JRME   Volume-11 ~ Issue-4 ~ Jul. – Aug. 2021

Abstract: Background: One of the effective didactic strategy of teaching scientific concept is considering students' misconceptions in view of developing appropriate objective-obstacle to overcome the identified epistemological or didactic obstacles. This gives a positive status to error in a constructivist approach where learning is brought about by conceptual change. The new paradigm education shift in Cameroon to Competency Based Approach with entry through real life problem situation require teachers to construct problem situation. However, most teachers and authors of official textbooks are unable to build real problem situations to overcome obstacles. More so no research work has been done to identify and overcome the obstacles linked to the teaching and learning of fertilisation concept, and little or no quasi experiment has been carried out to measure the extend of conceptual change. Our......

Key words: Fertilisation, Conception, epistemological obstacle, didactic obstacle, Problem situation

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Abstract: Background: Social deviance currently occurs a lot among teenagers, especially at the level of education at the high school level (SMA). It is important to for every personand nation to know the moral value because if the moral value of a nation is destroyed it will also destroy a country. The development of moral values can be influenced by several factors, one of them is school as educational institutions contribute to the moral formation of students. One of which is through literary learning. Literary works have many values contained in them, such as moral values, religious values and educational values. In a literary work there are several values that can be taken or applied directly by the reader, for example moral values.
One form of literary work that is impressed.....

Keyword: Based on the data analysis of the results of the research and discussion, it can be concluded several things that moral values in the novel Pulang by Leila S Chudori are manifested in three forms, namely

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Abstract: The aim of this research is to improve the students' reading comprehension skills by using Peer-Scaffolding strategy. This research was conducted at the tenth grade of SMK Persada Bandar Lampung in the academic year of 2020/2021. The subjects of this research were thirty five students. The problem of this research was students reading comprehension skills need to be improved. This research used Classroom Action Research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consisted of three meetings. In getting the data, the researcher used formative test and documentation. The research findings indicate that there is a significant improvement from cycle I to cycle.....

Keyword: Reading, Teaching, Peer Scaffolding, Strategy

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Abstract: COVID-19 outbreak has affected every facet of life including teaching and learning. Following the national lockdowns and closure of learning institution to curb its spread, learning institutions have had to adopt alternative learning and teaching strategies. However, the shift to remote learning was sudden and most students and lecturers were not prepared from the sudden shift to remote teaching. Therefore, this study aimed to assess remote teaching during covid-19 lockdowns and its implication on quality of instruction of undergraduates in Kenya. The study was qualitative and purposive sampling was used to target twelve lecturers and eight students from two public and two private universities. Thematic analysis was used and the findings revealed that remote learning has been widely adopted in Kenya universities with lecturers teaching classes of up to 100-150 students averagely....

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[5]. Jiang, H., Islam, A., Gu, X., & Spector, J.M. (2021). Online learning satisfaction in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: A regional comparison between Eastern and Western Chinese universities. Education and Information Technologieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-021-10519-x

Abstract: Background: At Thai Nguyen University, students have to study English as a compulsory subject right from the first semester and they are evaluated with both communication skill and grammar knowledge. High school graduates come into university with fairly high levels of grammatical competence, but often with correspondingly low levels of sociociolinguistisc competence. Improving sociolinguistic competence needs to be a part of the language learning process from the beginning. Many language schools and language learning programs focus almost exclusively on language components such grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation, and very little attention is paid to helping students understand how to be appropriate in a new cultural context. An assumption is often made that language learners will pick up sociolinguistic competence simply by being exposed to the culture. This study was conducted to assess the students' sociolinguistics competencies proposed creativity enhancement activities......

Keyword: sociolinguistic competencies, first-year student, Thai Nguyen University system , creativity, enhancement activities.

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Abstract: Background: The telecommunication industry in Nigeria is currently characterized by fast-paced competition as a result of rapid technological changes, high product/services innovation, fast customer-switching due to taste among others. Consequently, change management experts now place emphasize the need for future-driven organizations to be always ready for the inevitable change by crafting various strategies for creating it because successful change management is no more an option for organizations to survive the almost saturated marketplace governed by dynamic business environment. Based on the foregoing, this study therefore empirically examines how change management affects organizational performance using the MTN Nigeria Plc. Research Methodology/Approach.....

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Abstract: This study was quantitative and qualitative research. The aim of this study was to find out whether or not there was correlation between portfolio as assessment and students' motivation. The subjects of this research were 20 fifth students of elementary school. The score and questionnaire tests were administered as instrument of this research and also the interview. The result showed that there was a significant correlation between portfolio as assessment and students motivation.

Keyword: portfolio, portfolio assessment, motivation

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