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Listening To The Boys: Issues And Problems Influencing School Achievement And Retention, Malcolm Slade
Listening To The Boys: Issues And Problems Influencing School Achievement And Retention, Malcolm Slade
Shannon Research Press
This work summarises the views of 1800 boys, from 60 secondary schools in South Australia, balanced across all sectors. Their views have been clear and largely uniform across the schools, year levels and levels of achievement. Several popularly held views, that the problems start in the primary years, and that the issues are reducible to matters of gender difference, gender equity, peer pressure or literacy and numeracy, are rejected, by the boys and others, as simplistic to the point of being false. Issues about masculinity are conspicuous in their absence. Instead, the boys identify a broad range of interconnected factors, …
Malawi Teachers' Knowledge Of And Attitudes Towards Standardized Tests, Leah Kaira
Malawi Teachers' Knowledge Of And Attitudes Towards Standardized Tests, Leah Kaira
Master's Capstone Projects
Standardized tests play a great role in education. In Malawi, results of these tests are used to make: critical decisions about individuals, hence the need for students to be well prepared. Students' performance can be influenced by their teachers' attitude toward and knowledge of standardized tests. This survey was designed to establish Malawian teachers· knowledge of standardized tests and their attitude towards these tests. While the teachers displayed positive attitudes, it was found that they would benefit from more knowledge about standardized tests.