Purpose of the study. The purposes of this study were to examine the implementation of items recommended by the federal government of Nigeria in the National Policy on the new "6-3-3-4" System of Education in Anambra State secondary schools and to identify those items which were…
The purpose of this study was to delimit the causes of dropouts in secondary schools in the Igbo speaking population of Delta State, Nigeria by ascertaining the perceptions of students and parents. Their attitudes toward the selected strategies for addressing school dropout prob…
A major educational challenge that a developing country, such as Indonesia, faces is the consideration of cost-effective strategies to stimulate its human capital development. Over the past three and a half decades, many scholars have acknowledged the role educational investment…
This dissertation focused on the effects that the Senior Secondary School exit examination had on the students who took that examination. The study investigated the fundamental desires, opinions, attitudes, and values of the students. In the Nigerian School system, the West Afri…
This study examines how leadership is understood and exercised by principals of good secondary schools in Imo state, Nigeria. The study investigates how and in what sense three of the good secondary schools in Imo state earned their reputation of goodness and how the principals'…
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the system of accounting and auditing control in the Nigerian educational system in comparison to accepted accounting and auditing control practices. Respondents for this study included the Controller of Finance and Accounts, the Chief A…
The purpose of this study is: (a) to give an account of a bilateral project to develop a graduate training degree program in higher education in Somalia and (b) to contribute to a better understanding of the assessment of the external and internal factors that enhanced or hinder…
This study explored the areas in which Nigerian women are leading in higher education. The study was prompted by the recent global interest and emphasis on women, their lives, and potentials. Literature review noted the dearth of study on Third World women and limited documentat…
Over the past decade there have been extensive calls for change in the methods by which we prepare teachers as school administrators and for school leadership. In particular, scholars have argued for the adoption of approaches that will increase the capacities for students to ac…
This dissertation examines perceptions of faculty and administrators in Israeli institutions of higher education about their faculty evaluation programs, and compares them with perceptions of colleagues in comparable United States institutions. A written survey conducted among f…
The interest and motivation that encouraged the pursuit of this study are the results of the political and social reform initiatives which unfolded in 1991 in Ethiopia. A monarchy (late 19th century–1974) and a military-communist government (1974–1991) had favored a single Ethio…
La recherche presentee concerne la satisfaction au travail des enseignants. Elle a deux objectifs. Il s'agit, d'une part, d'examiner le degre de satisfaction generale que les professeurs de l'enseignement moyen et secondaire du Senegal eprouveni a l'egard de leur condition ensei…
Standards for 21st century education as outlined by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future require the theory, research, and practice of multicultural education. Without the clearly stated, direct, and fundamental support of multicultural education as a pedagog…
This study examines the relative contribution of school resources on student academic achievement in Indonesian senior secondary schools. The analysis primarily focuses on the relationship between teacher and principal characteristics, instructional materials, school facilities,…
The purpose of this study was to examine, using a comparative analysis, the leadership ability, managerial skills, and decision-making skills of research administrators in the scientific research laboratories at public and private universities and at independent research laborat…
The current study focused on examining the developmental stages of preschool teachers in the Arab Gulf region. Specifically, the needs and concerns of teachers were investigated using a pretest/posttest (12-month interval) design. Participants included two groups of preschool te…
This inquiry explores the work life of Iqbal, a government secondary school headteacher in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. In particular, it examines the nature of his school improvement challenges, how he addresses these challenges and his overall role as a school developer. I …
This study analyzes the policy documents of an educational transformation initiative for a high school system in Malaysia known as Maktab Rendah Sains MARA Bitaras (MRSM Bitaras). This school system is established for the Bumiputras (“Sons of the Soil”), including the Malays, wh…