A study was made of stress factors experienced by primary school teachers in Zambia after they had attended a course on stress management and counselling skills. Their pupils were significantly affected by poverty, death and illness of parents, fellow-pupils and teachers, teenage sex and pregnancy, violence in the home and, among girls, low self-esteem. The HIV epidemic had a major bearing on t...

this study aims at discovering whether university entrance exam (uee), a high-stake selection test in iran, influences the high school and pre-university efl teachers` methodology and test development. the participants of this study included thirty high school and pre-university efl teachers who were randomly selected from ten different schools. to answer the research questions, five types of m...

Mobile devices have become ubiquitous, and their uses are various. In schools, many discussions about mobile devices are ongoing as more and more teachers are adopting the technology for use in their classrooms. Teachers’ attitudes toward mobile learning takes an important role in initiating its usage in schools. This study aims to investigate the attitudes toward mobile learning among Korean t...

In this thesis a neural network-based fuzzy modeling approach to assess student learning characteristic and update the student model in Intelligent Learning Environments is proposed. The neural network-based fuzzy diagnostic model is a general diagnostic model which can be used to implement the diagnostic process in any learning environment according to designers’ and teachers' suggestions. Fuz...

Unique stressors can prompt child adjustment difficulties. Coping strategies and emotion regulation that impact the adjustment of children in general and military family children were investigated. Eighty children, 36 with deployed parents, their parents and teachers participated. All experienced stress related to hurricane Katrina. Correlational analyses indicate that children with more hurric...

background: once it comes to infections, children are the weakest members of society and they gather together in nurseries and kindergartens as their first communities. in recent years, parents were more eager to send their children to nurseries. this research investigated self-care to prevent urinary tract infections in children. methods: this was a qualitative research using a contextual them...

This study examined challenges experienced by teachers while implementing PPE in Zanzibar. The employed qualitative methodology and a case design. A total number of 18 respondents participated the where nine were pre-primary school teachers, six head three quality assurance officers from Ministry Education. Data was collected using focus group discussion, semi structured interviews documents. c...

this study examines differences in non-native efl teachers’ beliefs about grammar and teaching grammar. the differences were sought across teachers’ work environment- private school versus state schools-, degree, gender, and teaching experience. a sample of 130 efl teachers teaching at junior high school, high schools, and private language institutes were randomly selected. the sample consisted...