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Issue:2020 - Vol. 8 - Iss.1
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Articles:26 articles
International Journal of Educational Research and Reviews
IJERR
A peer-reviewed, open access journal that considers articles on all aspects of public health and epidemiology, including the social determinants of health, the environmental, behavioral, and occupational correlates of health and disease, and the impact of health policies, practices and interventions on the community. IJERR intends to promote and integrate the intellectual, methodological, and substantive diversity of educational scholarship. Articles dealing with educational research involving any discipline and me… More
2020 Vol.8 Iss.1 (26 articles)
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Research Article
Evolutionary processes in the development of errors in subtraction algorithms
Abstract: The study of errors made in subtraction is a research subject approached from different theoretical premises that affect different components of the algorithmic process as triggers of their generation. In the following research an attempt has been made to investigate the typology and nature of errors which occur in subtractions and their evolution throughout primary education. The main aim of the research is to examine whether in our school context systematic errors are made and if these decrease throughout schooli…
Keywords: Algorithmic learning; primary education; errors in subtraction; empirical research; transverse research on subtraction error; systematic error.
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The effects of reciprocal peer tutoring on the enhancement of career decision making process among secondary school adolescents
Abstract: The study investigated the effects of reciprocal peer tutoring in the enhancement of career decision making process among secondary school adolescent students. The interaction of sex with treatment on career decision making process of secondary school adolescent students was also investigated. 120 students from two co-educational secondary schools in Effurun, Delta State Nigeria participated in the study. A 40 item, 5 point Likert scale (Career Decision Making Process Scale) was the instrument used to obtain inform…
Keywords: Reciprocal Peer Tutoring; Career Decision Making; Secondary School Adolescents.
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Research Article
Measuring organizational responses to the student complaints in the perceived justice framework: Some evidence from northern cyprus universities
Abstract: The main aim of the study is to determine what kind of complaints students have, how universities react to these complaints, and how relevant reactions affect justice perceptions, complainant satisfaction, exit and negative word of mouth intensions of the students. In order to find out students’ perceptions on university responses to their complaints, the justice dimensions; procedural, interactional, distributive, from relevant services marketing literature, are utilized. Moreover, the effects of these perceived j…
Keywords: Student complaints; perceived justice dimensions; marketing; path analysis; Northern Cyprus Universities.
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Research Article
The changing paradigms of motivation in global business
Abstract: Motivation is the competence to influence populace towards the achievement of aspiration of human resources. According to the motivational concept, people are driven by five types of needs: phys-iological, safety, social, status and Self actualization needs. The manager can stimulate people through these needs by offering sufficient remuneration. Motivation can be grouped into built -in and extrinsic rewards. One of the most wide-spread extrinsic rewards is shell out. Many also prefer to have intrinsic reward such…
Keywords: Motivation; needs; human resource; behavior; performance.
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Research Article
Faculty’s job stress and performance in the undergraduate education assessment in China: A mixed-methods study
Abstract: The Undergraduate Education Assessment (assessment) was launched to upgrade faculty’s per-formance, but it also tends to intensify their job stress. Considering the little empirical research on the influence of stress on performance in the assessment and the confounded findings in literature, the study collected data with a survey and interviews to explore the characteristics of faculty’s job stress and performance and their relationships by distinguishing their levels and nature. The findings include (1) academics…
Keywords: University faculty; assessment; job stress; performance; U-shaped relation.
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The effects of transformational literature on children’s topical choices for writer’s workshop in an Urban Kindergarten
Abstract: The purpose of this qualitative case study was to document the writing choices of kindergarten children in an urban setting after planned experiences with transformational literature. This research involved nineteen kindergarten students who were participants through the naturalistic setting of routine classroom instruction. Four social issues texts were read aloud and discussed with the children. Their choices of writing topics for writer’s workshop were recorded before and after the use of these critical literacy…
Keywords: Early childhood transformative teaching.
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Research Article
Drug dependence and abuse in Kenyan secondary schools: strategies for intervention
Abstract: There may have been a time when we in Kenyan considered the use or abuse of drugs as a problem relating only to Western world. Today it has become an African problem to the extend that a month hardly passes without media reports on large quantities of drugs having been intercepted in a number of African cities and towns. The results of the study indicated that students abused drugs for varied reasons and the commonly abused drugs were alcohol, bhang, miraa, tobacco and kuber. The study recommended that guidance and…
Keywords: Drug addiction; drug abuse; substance abuse.
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The head-teacher’s instructional role in academic achievement in secondary schools in Vihiga district, Kenya
Abstract: The head teachers’ role is to promote academic performance. It is therefore important that the performance of a school is appraised against the performance of the person who leads it. The purpose of the study was to investigate the instructional role of the head-teacher in academic achievement in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations in Vihiga district of Western province. The population of the study comprised 84 head -teachers and 1,280 teachers serving in the 84 secondary schools. Saturated…
Keywords: Academic achievement; effectiveness; efficiency; head-teacher; high performing schools; horizontal teaching; instructional supervision; performance; school size; staffing; supervision; vertical teaching.
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Lecturer and student sensitivity to academic dishonesty intervention approaches in the University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Abstract: This paper presents the report of a survey of staff and students’ expression of preference for, and willingness to engage in three approaches to curbing the menace of academic dishonesty in the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. The study also explored the possible connections between gender and the respondents’ responses. The sample comprised 87 staff and 232 final year undergraduate students, randomly drawn from five faculties in the university; and data were collected using a researcher-designed questionnaire patter…
Keywords: Academic dishonesty; curbing approaches.
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Research Article
Teachers’ opinions on the incorporation of environmental education in the Nigerian primary school curriculum
Abstract: This paper presents the report of a research carried out in Kwara Sate of Nigeria to seek the opinions of teachers on the incorporation of Environmental Education (EE) in the Nigerian Primary School Curriculum. The descriptive survey method was employed for the study. 200 teachers were selected through stratified random sampling technique to cater for variables of gender, type of school, qualification and experience. The sampled teachers responded to a 36 items researcher – made questionnaire. Two research question…
Keywords: Environment; Primary School Curriculum; Teachers; Awareness; Afforestation; Land reclamation.
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Research Article
The effectiveness of using blended learning for teaching English language vocabulary for 1st grade students at Al Tafila Directorate of Education
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of using blended education strategy in teaching English language vocabulary among first-grade students in public schools at Al-Tafila Directorate of Education. The researcher used quasi-experimental approach in conducting this study, as the experimental group, which consisted of (46) students, were taught by the blended learning method, and the control group, which consisted of (46) students, were taught by the traditional method. The researcher also applied a pr…
Keywords: Teaching Strategies; Blended Learning; Students’ Achievement; Elementary Stage.
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