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Navigating Edtech Evaluation: Lessons From Online Testing In Low-Fee Control Schools In South Africa
No full textIn this blog we outline the key learnings from our recent baseline assessments of learners in control schools using online assessments administered individually on tablets. We found that:
1. Using standardized digital assessment tools is possible, efficient, scalable, and removes variability associated with face-to-face assessments
2. Staffing doesn’t need to be complicated to deliver edtech evaluations
3. Think ahead and plan for the worst - systems integration and power interruptions
4. Potential digital skills gaps can be addressed using the language children know best
5. Support - from the provincial to the school level - is an important enable
Marketing Library and Information Resources and Services Using Social Media Platforms: The Security Question
Get PDFSeveral social media platforms have emerged and revolutionised how library resources and services are marketed today. So many libraries have adopted the use of many of these media platforms for their library organizations. In this study; Marketing library and information resources and services using social media platform: The security question; the authors x-rayed the spread and use of social media in libraries examining the concepts of marketing, information resources and services, social media platforms and security in the information eco system. The authors discovered that, the most common security issues library organizations faced are data leakage and non-disclosure violations, cybersquatting where strangers masquerade as your library, your CEO or simply ‘own’ your trademark space in social media platforms amongst others. The study suggested amongst others that to safeguard malware; training on prevention, identification, containment, and eradication of malware be given to employees and individuals during their studies. Library organizations should be deliberate about empowering their policies by putting an investment in upgrading security tools that are well suited for the social media environment
The Future of Open Science: Unlocking Knowledge Together – Open Science Training
Get PDFUbuntuNet Alliance under the AfricaConnect3 project invited 20 librarians to participate in a one-day Open Science training session a day before the UbuntuNet Connect 2023 Conference
Individual Differences in Leveraging Regularity in Emergent L2 Readers in Rural Côte d’Ivoire
Get PDFSupplemental Materials: https://osf.io/76xqv/Purpose: Statistical learning (SL) approaches to reading maintain that proficient reading requires assimilation of the rich statistical regularities in the writing system. Reading skills in developing first- and second-language readers in English have been shown to be predicted by individual differences in sensitivity to statistical regularities in orthography and semantics, with good readers relying more on orthographic consistency, and less on semantic associations. However, the study of SL and its relation to reading has been primarily studied in English readers in WEIRD countries, limiting the universality of our theories.
Method: We examine individual differences in sensitivity to regularities utilising a word naming task in emergent French readers in rural communities in Côte d’Ivoire (N=134).
Results: We show that, in contrast to previous studies, in our cohort better readers leverage semantic associations more strongly, while individual differences in sensitivity to orthographic consistency did not predict reading skill. Relatively little variance in reading skill was explained by sensitivity to these regularities.
Conclusion: This showcases the importance of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research to back up universal theories of literacy, and suggests that current SL accounts of reading must be updated to account for this variance in reading skills
Summary report of QA agency reviews and support and advisory visits
Get PDFThis report is part of the Phase Two of the HAQAA Initiative. It synthesizes and analyzes the results of these exercises with a view to informing future use of the review methodology and identifying additional guidance needed for the use of ASG-QA by quality assurance agencies. It attempts, when available, to highlight case examples (among the agencies visited) that can inspire other agencies/departments in the development of their quality assurance policies and methodologies and to give visibility to good practices. This document is based on the analysis of the external review reports (evaluations or consultancy) produced by the experts, which include the analysis of the self-evaluation reports, the results of the surveys and the interviews conducted with the identified stakeholders.African Union Commission
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FAIRsharing – A Curated Resource On Data And Metadata Standards, With A Spotlight On Africa
Get PDFAllyson Lister is the FAIRsharing Content & Community Lead at the University of Oxford. With a background in data standardisation, ontologies, semantic data and integration, she is responsible for FAIRsharing content, as well as for collaborations with users and outreach across all research domains. Allyson is also an EOSC Future / RDA Domain Ambassador (for standards, databases and policies), and is a co-chair of two RDA working groups.
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This webinar session is part of the AfricArXiv Open Science Webinar Series on the Discoverability of African Research, co-organized by UbuntuNet Alliance: https://ubuntunet.net/ and Access 2 Perspectives: https://access2perspectives.org/ as part of the ORCID Global Participation Fund: https://info.orcid.org/global-participation-program/.
View all sessions of this webinar series at https://africarxiv.pubpub.org/webinars
Learn more about ORCID: https://orcid.org/FAIRsharing is a curated, informative, and educational resource on data and metadata standards, interrelated to databases and data policies, across all disciplines. This presentation is about the documentation FAIRsharing holds and the services it provides for African research standards, databases, and more.
Learn more about FAIRsharing at https://fairsharing.org
A Facility-Based Survey Of Cervical Cancer Prevention And Control Programs In Sub-Saharan Africa By Serra Lem Asangbeh, Graduate School For Cellular And Biomedical Sciences (Gcb) University Of Bern And Swiss Tropical And Public Health Institute (Swiss Tph)
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These activities are part of the project: Cervical Cancer Prevention and Care Cascade for women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, that has received support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; grant Advancing Cervical Cancer Screening in HIV-positive women (ACCHIVe) —The Cervical Cancer Prevention and Care Cascade (Award number: IZP8Z0_180245). The research is also supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), National Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute On Alcohol Abuse And Alcoholism (NIAAA), Fogarty International Center (FIC), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number U01AI069924. We acknowledge the funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skodowska-Curie grant agreement No 801076 and support from the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students for the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (ESKAS No. 2019.0741). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the funders.The preliminary results from a facility-based survey of cervical cancer prevention and control programs in Sub-Saharan Africa are presented. Main findings: HPV vaccination is available in less than half of the participating sites; funding support for cervical screening is rare; diagnostic and treatment services are mostly centralized (women often referred for these services off-site); cost is a barrier to diagnosis and treatment in most sites; data collection systems are available for HIV but rare for CC prevention; and across the cascade, data availability greatly reduces from screening to follow-up of treated women and women initially screened negative
LA COVID 19 DANS LA VILLE DE TOUBA : DE LA RÉSISTANCE À LA RÉSILIENCE COMMUNAUTAIRE.
No full textThis article comes from the research project "Transmission of Covid 19 in Senegal: analysis of the socio-spatial dynamics of the factors of propagation in the region of Dakar and the town of Touba", implemented by the LEIDI Laboratory of the Gaston Berger University from 2021 to 2022 (02 years). It analyses the problem of community perception of the COVID-19 pandemic and its evolution in the town of Touba. It takes stock of the factors involved in resistance to and denial of the disease, and of the occupational categories most affected (commerce and transport).
The overall aim of the study is to contribute to a better understanding of the community dynamics that prevailed during the Covid 19 pandemic in the city of Touba. Specifically, the aim is to question community players about their perception of the disease, and then the characteristics that explain the spread of the pandemic, particularly in terms of trade and transport.
The methodology is based on the overall methodology of the research project mentioned above. The tools of the Active Participatory Research Method were favoured because of their ability to capture socio-economic realities through focus groups, interviews and testimonials, which we combined with a survey of 500 individuals from different socio-professional categories.
The main findings are that community-based approaches should be favoured to deal with pandemics and future epidemics. Community transmission is generally linked to the precarious living conditions of a population that is often hard-working and obliged to travel every day in search of daily expenses in places open to the public, notably markets and bus stations
