Numeracy Culture among Primary School Pupil

Asthma awareness among primary school teachers in Zanjan in 2014

Background: Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease and a leading cause of school absenteeism. Awareness, attitude, and knowledge of asthma can play an effective role in controlling this disease and its consequences. Accordingly, this study aimed to determine the level of asthma awareness among primary school teachers in Zanjan. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was...

Literacy and Numeracy Are More Heritable Than Intelligence in Primary School

Because literacy and numeracy are the focus of teaching in schools, whereas general cognitive ability (g, intelligence) is not, it would be reasonable to expect that literacy and numeracy are less heritable than g. Here, we directly compare heritabilities of multiple measures of literacy, numeracy, and g in a United Kingdom sample of 7,500 pairs of twins assessed longitudinally at ages 7, 9, an...

School governance, teacher incentives, and pupil–teacher ratios: Experimental evidence from Kenyan primary schools☆

☆ We thank Josh Angrist, Paul Glewwe, Alaka Holla, Vict Menezes-Filho, Karthik Muralidharan, and seminar par Harvard, UC Santa Barbara, the World Bank, Dartmouth C International Seminar for their helpful comments and di Ministry of Education, International Child Support Africa, a laboration. We thank Willa Friedman, Jessica Morgan, N Pouliquen and Paul Wang for their excellent research Grace Ma...

The Gross And Net Effects Of Primary School Denomination On Pupil Performance

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School Culture and School Performance