1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Nigeria like any other developing countries has witnessed series of political instability with obvious effect on educational policies at federal‚ state and local government level. This gradually laid the foundation of fallen standard in education at the primary and secondary level which caused differential academic performance of students. In the quest of finding survival feet‚ the nation has evolved series of socio-economic and educational measures but these have not
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of Heights: Teachers‚ Parents‚ and Students are Wary of Achievement.” Author Bob Chase‚ who is president of the National Education Association‚ pointed that teachers and parents should more worried about the students who are involved in many extracurricular activities after school. He called these students are the “C” students because they are busy doing activities after school and not engaging in their school work. For that case teachers and parents should worry less about the A student with two or
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A market failure is a situation where free markets fail to allocate resources efficiently. According to David Begg et al (2011: pg.315) says ‘In the absence of any distortions‚ competitive equilibrium is efficient. We use the term market failure to cover all the circumstances in which market equilibrium is inefficient. Distortions then prevent the invisible hand from allocating resources efficiently’. The following are possible causes of market failures. Imperfect Competition‚ Asymmetry of Information
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Association of Teacher Education in Europe st conference annual atee TEACHERS’ REFLECTIONS ON THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD STUDENTS Andreja Lavrič‚ Ph. D. Training centre for civil protection and disaster relief andreja.lavric@guest.arnes.si Abstract In the educational process directed at students‚ the responsibility for successful learning is divided between the teacher and the students. Both‚ the teacher as well as the students have to realize their own part of the responsibility burden. The
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Topic: “Teacher-Student Relationships and Academic and Behavioral Levels” Introduction The importance of teacher-student relationships will forever be an increasing factor in students’ academic achievements and behaviors. The general topic for this research is how teacher-student relationships affect students’ academic achievements develop or destroy their behavioral skills. This topic brings about a lot of conflicts that leads to many unanswered questions such as ‘What happens to the teacher-student
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Volume 2‚ Number 2‚ July 2006 SECONDARY STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF FACTORS EFFECTING FAILURE IN SCIENCE IN PORTUGAL Jesuína M. B. Fonseca Joseph E. Conboy ABSTRACT. High rates of failure in secondary level science classes are a problem worldwide. Effective teaching and efficient management of schools requires information as to the causes of failure. One approach to acquiring this information is to improve our understanding of what the students themselves perceive as the causes and antecedents
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Assessing and Reporting Student Achievement Purposes of the Assessments * to assist in student learning * to identify students strengths and weakness’’ * to assess the effectiveness of the instructional strategy * to assess and improve the effectiveness of curriculum programs * to assess and improve teaching effectiveness * to provide data that assist in decision making about a student’s future * to provide data in order to communicate with/involve parents in their child’s
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Teacher-student Romantic Relationship I. Executive Summary: Morality in the work place is almost a none existing issue‚ this is because most of the employees in any organization do not know the true meaning of morality. Others think to do good is a moral thing‚ hence any deeds contrary to that are considered immoral. Allowing mentorship to turn into romance breaks the trust on which a healthy student-teacher relationship is founded. Most educational institutions have policies that ban such romances
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as a student with a larger mastery of knowledge‚ a broader understanding of facts‚ a larger repository of wisdom‚ and a better insight on life that will make better individual responsible and upright human beings. On process of learning‚ students or learner is the center of education. Studying their different aspects of a student and their ways on attaining such goals will be of great impotance. As such‚ the extent of student’s learning in academics may be determined by the grades a student earns
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today. Pointing finger at the teachers. Infact it is not only the teacher’s product but there are many other factors like parents‚ curriculum‚ government plans and policies and student’s maturity and potential are responsible too. Though there are many ways we can improve teaching or “raise” the quality of education‚ the three most important ways or factors‚ I feel‚ are as follows. 1. Our educational system should be incorporating the current knowledge how students learn‚ up to
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