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Problems Of Conducting Educational Research In Zambia
No full textThis study was an attempt to identify factors hindering the carrying out of educational research in Zambia. Further, it sought to provide solutions to the identified problems.
Seven of the 18 respondents returned completed questionnaires. The respondents identified the following as factors hindering research activities in Zambia; lack of research funds, lack of adequate number of publishing houses, ignorance of the uses of research results by the majority of individuals in the country, unwilling or unhelpful respondents, lack of transport and lack of research skills by the majority of professionals with first degrees.
The following were suggested as possible solutions to the identified problems; allocation of more funds for research purposes, setting up of more publishing houses, authorities should be more supportive of research activities, publicizing the importance and value of research findings and creating school based transport pools for research purposes
Why The Mathematics and Science Teacher Extension Programme Works in Namibia
No full textIn the majority of African countries on attainment of political independence after decades
of colonialism found themselves with few (if any) adequately educated and prepared
persons to carry on the task of developing their new state economically. Namibia was no
exception. Indeed at independence in 1990, Namibia found herself in the same position as
other African countries, with a poorly trained or untrained cadre of schoolteachers in
almost all subject areas. The building of more schools and the training of more
schoolteachers for the majority of the previously colonized people was a must for these
African countries. The general population saw education as a passport for a better life and
their right. Therefore teacher education had to be emphasized to cope with the increased
demand for education. Accordingly, teacher education was one of the priority areas of
these independent countries in order to develop the necessary human resources and to
develop economically. Education brought about a higher personal status and quality of
life
Examinations and assessment at tertiary level
No full textThis study is a case study of Continuous Assessment and External Examiners'.reports in
two universities in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The paper
defines the term Continuous Assessment. The first part of the presentation then examines
the conduct of Continuous Assessment at the two universities under study. The concerns in
Continuous Assessment addressed are: Number of ContinuousAssessment test/assignments
to be given per course; Absenteeism/ late/ non-submission of tests or assignments;
Security of tests/assignments for continuous assessment; and Plagiarism. Advantages and
disadvantages of Continuous Assessment schemes are briefly discussed. The second part
of the paper examines the roles of External Examiners at the two Universities. The findings
presented indicate that basically external examiners' roles revolve around five verbs. They
do one or more of the following: expose; impose; suppose; endorse and propose. The
paper concludes by affirming the power of examination. Examinations are here to stay
The perceptions and practice of learner centred teaching in Namibia. The case of Physical Science teachers in the Omusati eucation region
No full textThis study sought to find out the practice and problems encountered by Physical Science teachers in the Omusati Education Region in Namibia. It was found that there was a discrepancy between the teachers’ perceptions of their practice of learner-centred teaching and their actual practice in the classroom. It was also found that a number of problems hindered their practice of learner centred teaching. Possible solutions to these problems were also indicated
Use of Nonstandardised Measurements To Enhance Student Learning of Units
No full textMeasurement is described in the directives of the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics (NCTM, 1989: 51) as "of central importance to the curriculum because of
its power to help children see that mathematics is useful in everyday life and to help them
develop many mathematical concepts and skills." At primary level, the instruction
emphasized the importance of establishing a firm foundation in the basic concepts and
skills of measurement. For example, understand the attributes of length, capacity, mass,
weight, area, volume, time, temperature, and angle. However, when learners reach
secondary level, still many do not have the sense of estimating one centimeter, one
centimeter square, or hectare. This can be attributed to the way measurements are
introduced and used in the schools. In fact metric units are just taken for granted.
We need to inculcate into our learners the sense of ownership of the units of
measurements, even the metric units. This is only possible if we revisit the nonstandard
units our ancestors used to measure objects as the basis of known (contextualizing) and
move to the unknown, the metric units. The metric systems of units have evolved since
the adoption of the first well-defined system in France in 1791 (Wikipedia, 2007).
Learners need to see the necessity of using the metric systems and this can only be done
if they work with nonstandard units and see the inconsistency in their measurements
The perceptions and practice of learner centred teaching in Namibia. The case of Physical Science teachers in the Omusati eucation region
No full textThis study sought to find out the practice and problems encountered by Physical Science teachers in the Omusati Education Region in Namibia. It was found that there was a discrepancy between the teachers’ perceptions of their practice of learner-centred teaching and their actual practice in the classroom. It was also found that a number of problems hindered their practice of learner centred teaching. Possible solutions to these problems were also indicated
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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