ABSTRACT The level of academic performance of distance learners in Nigerian universities has generated concern among stakeholders owing to the vital roles which distance learning programmes play in the overall educational development of the country. Several studies have been carried out on conventional students’ academic performance, but not much on distance learning students. This study, therefore, provided a causal explanation of distance learners’ academic performance through the anal...
ABSTRACT This study sought to determine empirically the extent to which disparity in school location, resource availability and school type affect the performance of (rural and urban public and private) secondary school students in Lagos state. The study involved sixty secondary schools drawn from rural and urban settings across the five zones in the state using a combination of stratified and simple random sampling techniques included sixty principals 600 cachers, forty officials of the Stat...
Abstract As a discipline, one of the unique attributes that Geography has is fieldwork. The concept of fieldwork is well known all over the world. Shroder (2002) is of the view that fieldwork in Geography is an outstanding method in the discipline whereby new understandings of the physical phenomena can be incurred most clearly when combined with other comprehensive mapping tools in the Geographic Information Science (GIS) laboratory. According to Onn and PohPoh (2008), as a subject concerned...
Introduction 1 1.2 Background of the study 1 1.3 Statement of the problem 3 1.4 Research questions 3 1.5 Research objectives 4 1.6 Significance of the study 4 1.7 Delimitations 4 1.8 Assumptions 5 1.9 Limitations 5 1.10 Definition of terms 6 1.11 Summary 7 viii 2.1 Introduction 8 2.2 Background 8 2.3 Inclusive education in Zimbabwe 9 2.4 Character of inclusive education 10 2.5 What are the reasons for inclusion 11 2.6 Requirements for successful inclusive education systems 13 2.7 Various rese...
ABSTRACT This study examined the perceptions of teachers in implementing simulation games in teaching and learning of Geography at Zimbabwe Junior Certificate Level in Wedza District secondary schools. The problem was that teachers were not using simulation games in teaching and learning of Geography at ZJC. The study, therefore, investigated the perceptions of teachers and challenges faced by teachers in implementing simulation games. The study also looked at possible ways to improve the use...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore teacher and school capacity to deliver practicals under the new curriculum for science subjects in Zimbabwe. The study was carried out on a single school in the Midlands Province capital of Gweru in the Lower Gweru area. The main areas under study where teacher and school ability to effectively deliver practical lessons in O-level science under the new curriculum. The other area of study was on the challenges being faced by teachers to effecti...
ABSTRACT The research study sought to find the factors contributing to poor performance in English at ordinary level in rural schools in Umguza district. Qualitative research design was used. It enabled the researcher to look at various aspects of the study in their natural setting. Purposive sampling was used to select school heads, English teachers and ordinary level pupils who participated in the study. The researcher used interview and observation guides as well as document analysis to ge...
ABSTRACT The study focuses on the challenges teachers are facing in the teaching of traditional dance in primary schools. The study focused on four former group ‘A’ schools of Gweru urban. The study showed that schools have challenges in the teaching of traditional dance. The challenges ranged from lack of resources, lack of qualified personnel, lack of funding, lack of workshops, lack of documented literature on dance to teachers not implementing the music syllabus among others. The stud...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to find out the factors causing female students to drop out of school and the effects this could have in Zaka District. The researcher was motivated to carry out the study because uneducated women lead to underdevelopment of a country, poor healthy standards, as well as promoting antisocial behaviour. A sample of two schools, two school heads, eight teachers, ten students enrolled as well as five drop outs were used. The qualitative research design was us...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to investigate the association between cultural capital and academic writing skills of level one semester one Communication Skills students with particular reference to Midlands State University. This study was informed by the cultural capital framework. A case study design was used. Questionnaires were administered to 117 level one semester one Communication Skills students of which 53.6% were females. Four lecturers were interviewed while assignments were...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the issues and challenges playing out on teachers in the implementation of the new grade 3 science and technology curriculum. Further, the study sought to establish the nature of the challenges and how they can be overcome. In order to better illustrate a more detailed picture of the challenges playing out on teachers in implementing the new curriculum, a mixed method research design was implemented where data was collected using both qualitative and ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the challenges faced by pupils in composition writing at Ordinary Level and to identify possible causes and solutions to the challenges in three secondary schools in Kadoma urban area. The researcher employed the descriptive survey method. In this study 14 teachers and one hundred and twenty pupils were the sample. Three hundred and sixty composition exercise books from the three secondary schools were the documents analysed. The questionnaire, the doc...
ABSTRACT The project aims at interrogating the dialectical relationship between catholic-run schools and the government of Zimbabwe in the provision of quality education. These two players started to officially work together after the promulgation of the 1894 Matabeleland Order in Council. This order in council gave birth to the 1899 Education Ordinance which legally prescribed how the state was going to relate to the church education institutions as well as the non-denominational learning in...
Introduction Managing any activity that involves the input of human beings requires proper harmonization of all variables in order to achieve the set objectives and goals of such endeavour in which Sport management, is no exception. Management has been described as the process of planning, organizing, directing and controlling the use of an organization resources to effectively and economically attain its objective. Bittel et al (1984). A sport organization can be likened to a system; that is...
ABSTRACT This research is a qualitative ethnographic study with thick description of events. It was done in Mataruse village in Mberengwa. Its focus was on the role of music performed during komba girl initiation of the Lemba. The study used interviews and observation guide to collect the much needed data in the compilation of this research. Information gathered using the above mentioned data collection tools helped in the success of this research. The data was presented and thematically anal...