A Decision Support System for Subject Area Selection for Students Transiting from Junior Secondary School to Senior Secondary School

Development and Validation of the Mathematics Anxiety Scale for Secondary and Senior Secondary School Students

The present paper aims at presenting the procedure of construction and standardization of operational measure of math anxiety scale (MAS). The final form of the test has 14 statements which is design to measure the math anxiety of secondary school and senior secondary school students. MAS as a bidimensional and shorter instrument in which 7 items are worded positively and 7 items worded negativ...

Awareness About HIV/AIDS in the Senior Secondary School Students

School children of today are exposed to the risk of being victims of HIV/AIDS which was quite unknown to their predecessors a few decades ago. The epidemic of HIV/AIDS is now progressing at a rapid pace among young people. Studies have reported that young people form a significant segment of those attending sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinics and those infected by HIV. Programme manage...

Influence of Peer Victimization on School Attendance among Senior Secondary School Students in Uromi Metropolis

Computer Science Contests for Secondary School Students: Approaches to Classification

The International Olympiad in Informatics currently provides a model which is imitated by the majority of contests for secondary school students in Informatics or Computer Science. However, the IOI model can be criticized, and alternative contest models exist. To support the discussion about contests in Computer Science, several dimensions for characterizing and classifying contests are suggested.

A scientific creativity test for secondary school students

This study describes the development of a test of scientific creativity for use with secondary school students. A Scientific Creativity StructureModel (SCSM) was constructed on the basis of an analysis of meanings and aspects of scientific creativity found in the literature. 50 science teachers in China took part in an initial evaluation of this model. On the basis of their analyses and comment...