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Direct linkPheneas Nkundabakura; Theophile Nsengimana; Aloys Iyamuremye; Celine Byukusenge; Eugenie Uwamariya; Victor Dusabumuremyi – Discover Education, 2025
Female teachers in Mathematics and Science often face persistent challenges related to limited content knowledge, low self-efficacy, and underrepresentation in STEM fields. These barriers hinder their professional growth and impact on the quality of STEM education. This study aimed at investigating the contribution of Continuous Professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Women Faculty, Mathematics Teachers
George, Christine Marie; Factor-Litvak, Pam; Khan, Khalid; Islam, Tariqul; Singha, Ashit; Moon-Howard, Joyce; van Geen, Alexander; Graziano, Joseph H. – Health Education & Behavior, 2013
The objective of this study was to design and evaluate a household-level arsenic education and well water arsenic testing intervention to increase arsenic awareness in Bangladesh. The authors randomly selected 1,000 study respondents located in 20 villages in Singair, Bangladesh. The main outcome was the change in knowledge of arsenic from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Water, Poisoning, Intervention
Black, Stephen; Yasukawa, Keiko – International Journal of Training Research, 2011
Australia appears to be in the grip of a "literacy crisis" in workplaces. Media reports and industry/skills organisations are decrying the low literacy and numeracy levels of workers and the negative effects these have on productivity. As a consequence, the Australian government has increased funding for workplace literacy and numeracy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Numeracy, Local Government, Workplace Literacy
Hannum, Wallace – Performance Improvement, 2009
This article questions commonly held beliefs about training as a component of performance improvement solutions. Rather than being based on theoretical and empirical support, many beliefs about training are based on little more than myth. Part 1 of this article presents myths about the relationship of training and performance and myths about…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Misconceptions, Beliefs, Training
Sterland, Sam; Bellamy, John; Escott, Phillip; Castle, Keith – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2006
This article highlights the importance of considering the flow of newcomers into church life and the inadequacy of relying solely upon changes in numbers of attenders in assessing the effectiveness of churches. Drawing upon data collected in four countries, Australia, England, New Zealand and the United States of America, this article looks at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Churches, Recruitment, Socialization
Download full textGoff-Kfouri, Carol Ann – Online Submission, 2006
The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the benefits of on-line learning for adult learners and to further demystify three common misconceptions concerning on-line learning: students certainly do receive support from their on-line professors, the professor is pro-active rather than passive, and students may be more motivated to learn than in…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Business English, Adult Students, Adult Learning
