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The Effects of Four Selected Components of Opportunity to Learn on Mathematics Achievement of Grade 12 Students
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to determine if a single dimension of opportunity to learn (OTL) could be identified using four selected components of teachers, students, schools and classroom characteristics; and to determine if each of the four components of OTL was related to mathematics achievement as measured by the results of the June 1999 Bahamas General Certificate of Secondary Education mathematics examination.
The findings of this study indicated that the model-data-fit was reasonable, suggesting that a significant relationship existed between opportunity to learn and three selected components of teachers, students and school characteristics.
The fourth component, classroom characteristics, was not significantly related to OTL. Each of the four components of schools, students, teachers and classroom characteristics were significantly related to mathematics achievement
Aspects of Primitivism in the West Indian Novel of the 1930s
Get PDFAn exploration of how West Indian writers of the 1930s contrasted their vision of the "primitive" and natural Caribbean lifestyle with the corrosive and artificial values of the West. Novels discussed are: Claude McKay. Banana Bottom (1933); C.L.R. James. Minty Alley (1936) and Edgar Mittelholzer. Corentyne Thunder (1941)
Tourism and its Effect on the Individual and Society
Get PDFThe pros and cons of a tourism, service-based economy
Welcome to the Online COB Research Journal
No full textWelcome message for the launch of the inaugural online open access volume of The College of The Bahamas Research Journal
Bahamiana in The College of The Bahamas Library
Get PDFoai:cob.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org:article/5A Bahamian Special Collection was recently established at The College of The Bahamas Library to collect, preserve and make available historical and current information by Bahamians or about The Bahamas
Selected Bibliography from the Special Collections Department of The College of The Bahamas Library
Get PDFIn the Special Collections Department of The College of The Bahamas Library resides a little treasure trove of resources pertaining to The Bahamas, the West Indies and Africa. These collections hold a variety of printed materials: books, dissertations, research studies, government documents, journals, newspaper clippings and ephemera. The Bahamian Collection is the most extensive. Established in 1984, it serves the purpose of a research depository for The Bahamas, as the National Library is yet to be built. Officially, the National Archives is the depository for the historical records of the country. The Bahamas is fortunate in having a very fine archival institution, located on Mackey Street.
Titles included in the Bahamian Collection Selected Bibliography are books chosen for their representational appeal. The intention was to represent a cross-section of publications highlighting all aspects of The Bahamas. That was the primary criterion. The other consideration was motivational value. By this is meant the ability to tantalize the reader into discovering more about who, why and what has been printed to preserve, inform, entertain and contemplate the fascinating evolution of The Bahamas. Owing to the strong oral tradition of the country, the printed record of the people began somewhat later than in many other cultures. This too is of significance to the interested reader.
In August 1996 when I came to work at The College of The Bahamas as the Special Collections Librarian, I knew nothing of the colors, textures and vitality of this country. A Fodor's travel guide provided factual information and description and some enticing photographs. The context of Bahamian life was a mystery to me. As the authors of the books selected for this bibliography, I have grown more and more intrigued by this island archipelago. Thanks to the encoded voice of natives and, like myself, windblown curious wanderers who have had the good fortune to arrive, if only for a short while, and partake, a cache of Bahamian wealth has been shared.
This is a reader's bibliography and a work unto itself. It is not meant to support a work of research or any other work. The format used for this bibliography is presented in the following manner: title (in bold italics), author, publication information. This style is a deliberate departure from that of APA to which other articles in this publication of College Forum are required to conform
The Postal Survey as a Research Tool in New Providence
Get PDFThis paper describes two postal surveys conducted in New Providence between September 2001 and February 2002. These surveys, using the telephone directory as the sampling frame, were specifically designed to investigate the response rate to postal surveys in New Providence.
Each survey included a one-page form sent to 250 persons resulting in a response rate of about 20%. Each survey form contained one question that had also appeared in The Bahamas 2000 census. Overall response to this question differed significantly between the respondents to each survey and the respondents to the Census.
These results suggest the presence of sources of bias relevant to the sampling frame, socio-economic status and self-selection. The implications of these results for using the postal survey as a research tool are discussed
Engendering The Bahamas: A Gendered Examination of Bahamian Nation Making, or National Identity and Gender in the Bahamian Context
Get PDFReferendum 2002: gender and the Bahamian citizenry.
On February 27, 2002 Bahamians voted in a referendum to amend the country's constitution. There were several issues to be decided, but the one that caused the most debate was the question of citizenship. Under the present constitution, the way in which Bahamian citizenship is conferred on the spouses and children of Bahamian women, is, to say the least, irregular. The wives of Bahamian men are entitled to Bahamian citizenship; the husbands of Bahamian women are not granted any such entitlement and have to apply for citizenship like any other would-be immigrant. Similarly, the children of Bahamian men, whether born in the Bahamas or not, are Bahamians at birth; the children of Bahamian women have a far more complex fate. If a woman is unmarried, and has a child outside the Bahamas, her child is born Bahamian. But if she is married to a non-Bahamian, and gives birth outside the country, that child is merely entitled to apply for citizenship between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, and may be refused. If offered citizenship, the child is then forced to renounce any other citizenship inorder to receive Bahamian status.
The recent referendum has generated plenty of political hay and I have no intention of adding straw to the pile. What interests me about this state of affairs is what is suggests about the way in which gender figures in the imagination of the Bahamian nation, and as such, I shall use it as a case study to test the ideas I raise in my discussion
Book review
Get PDFBreaking the Glass Ceiling: the Stories of Three Caribbean Nurses by Jocelyn Hezekiah. (University of the West Indies Press, 2000). Trailblazers in Nursing Education: a Caribbean Perspective by Hermi Hyacinth Hewitt (Canoe Press, 2002)
