iosr-JRME   Volume-7 ~ Issue-4 ~ July-August 2017

Abstract: The present investigators aims to study the contribution of the areas related to the Parental Attitudes Towards Girl's Education. This paper attempts to make a thorough, comprehensive and analytical study by exploring the educational background of the parents, different parental income, different occupation of the parents, lack of education and cultural lag of parents and the effect it has on the education of girls. From the result of the research the urban,it is observed that parents have more understanding about the necessity of education and its impact on being a good citizen...........

Keywords: Education, Girl's education, Parental Attitude

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Abstract: La innovación educativa ha sido claramente influenciada por las TIC, sin embargo, es claro que la simple aplicación de estas tecnologías no garantiza un cambio significativo en las prácticas del docente. Existe una fuerte tendencia por parte de los diferentes gobiernos, de promover el uso y apropiación de las TIC, buscando alinear sus objetivos hacia la innovación pedagógica y la integración curricular. Desafortunadamente, algunas de estas políticas se traducen solo en iniciativas de dotación de equipos, promoviendo el modelo de computadoras en..........

Keywords: innovación, TIC en educación

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Abstract: Children have potential for demonstrating increased creativity where certain negative influences are removed during the creative process. These negative influences include the involvement of the teacher in the art and design class at school. This study establishes through primary and secondary research the different ways that teachers engage with children as potential influences that are tested through experimentation. The study was concerned with revealing levels of creativity in designs as well as sign of adult influence. The results revealed that different types of involvement do have a negative impact on creativity, especially giving children instructions

Keywords:Uninfluenced design, Child's imagination, Creativity,Adult involvement and influence, Curriculum, Teaching.

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Abstract: This study conducted an Item Response Theory Analysis of Academic Amotivation Inventory (AAI) using a Graded Response Model, which is a unidimensional IRT analysis, on AAI and on each of its subscales. It determined the item and category difficulty of AAI and investigated the discrimination properties of its individual item on a sample of 1000 secondary school students in Southwestern Nigeria. The results revealed that all the items had high location parameters indicating that few examinees endorsed positive functioning on the scale and all the items had slope parameters..........

Keywords:Academic Amotivation, Classical Test Theory, Item Response Theory, Scale, Secondary School Students,

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Abstract: The purpose of the study was to investigate the knowledge and attitude of pregnant women towards 'Focus Antenatal Care' (FANC) utilization in IkotEkpene, Nigeria. Ex-post-facto design was adopted for this study. The sample size was920. A researcher-made Likert typequestionnaire was used for data collection. Five research questions and five hypotheses were formulated. Simple frequency count and Percentage computation were used for the analysis of the research questions while chi-square statisticwas used for testing the hypotheses at .05 alpha level. Findings revealed that pregnant women'sknowledge of FANC, attitude, educational status, residential location, and economic status were all significant. It was therefore recommended among other things that adequate awareness and education about FocusAntenatal Carebe pursued vigorously among pregnant women in the area of study forimproved health care delivery

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Abstract: The need to access higher education in Kenya is increasing especially with the introduction of free primary education in the norm of Education for All. Higher education in developing countries, however, is faced with a myriad of challenges such as lack of accessibility and affordability given the limited government funding. Responsively, some countries have adopted the cost sharing mechanisms in terms of subsidized tuition fees, food, grants and provision of student loans to expand the quality of higher education. The discussions in this paper are anchored on a study that sought...............

Keywords:Higher Education, Loan Allocation, National Polytechnics, Socio-Economic Status, HELB.

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Abstract: The purposes of this research were to analyze the effect of cooperative learning model type group investigation for student's conceptual knowledge and science process skills in the temperature and heat subject. This research was a quasi experiment research. The population was all students of class X SMA Swasta Teladan Medan academic year 2016/2017. The sample selection was done by using random class technique of two classes. The first class was the class X-5 as an experimental class taught with cooperative learning model type group investigation and the second class was..............

Keywords: cooperative learning model type group investigation, conceptual knowledge, science process skills

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Abstract: This research aimed to find out whether the science process skills of students scientific inquiry learning better than conventional learning; to find out whether the science process skills of students who have above average creative thinking skills is better than students who have below average creative thinking skills; to find out whether there was an interaction between scientific inquiry learning model with students' creative thinking skills in improving students' science process skills. This research was quasi experiment research. The population was all students of class XI-IPA Masdrasah.........

Keywords: scientific inquiry, creative thinking skills, science process skills

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Abstract: Graduates with the National Diplomas in Agriculture have experienced a shortage of employment opportunities in both public and private sectors. This has resulted in a need for such graduates to look into alternatives in terms of utilising their qualifications elsewhere. Most of the current students and graduates chose agriculture because of the love of it, while some chose agriculture because it was one of the careers they could just explore after matriculating. With dwindling opportunities in terms of formal employment the next best alternative was entrepreneurial agriculture...........

Keywords:Entrepreneurial agriculture, education, perceptions, students and graduates.

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Abstract: This research objectives are to analyze the conceptual knowledge of students on cooperative learning model type Group Investigation assisted PhET and conventional learning; To analyze the conceptual knowledge between students who have above average and below average teamwork skill; To analyze the interaction between the learning model and teamwork skill to the conceptual knowledge of the students. This is a quasi-experimental research. The sample selection was done by random class technique as much as two classes, where the first class was taught by cooperative..........

Keywords:Group Investigation, PhET, Teamwork Skill, Conceptual Knowledge

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Abstract: Educational inclusion and participation are often seen as human rights issues and essential components of social justice. This study sought to establish the effect of family type on participation of pupils in special units in public primary schools in Kakamega County. The study was guided by Chinapah Vinayagum learning model and used descriptive research survey design. A sample of 226 was selected using multi-stage sampling technique. Data was collected using questionnaires. A pilot study was conducted in three special units and the data was used to assess the reliability............

Keywords: Family Type, Participation, Special Unit, Primary School, Multiple Regression.

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