The present investigation was conducted to see the effect of gender of head teachers on the academic success of the school students in Bangladesh. A total of 60 head teachers (male = 37, female = 23) and 3776 students (boys = 2142, girls = 1634) were randomly selected from the schools in a divisional town in Bangladesh to serve as sample. Academic success records of the students in their Primar...

UNLABELLED Gaps in public knowledge about antibiotics have led to calls for public education campaigns about antibiotics, including education of school children. OBJECTIVE This study investigates New Zealand primary school teachers' current level of knowledge about antibiotics, to assess whether this is adequate for providing accurate education for children. METHODS Two hundred and sixty-si...

Universities require highly qualified and committed instructors to carry out the significant tasks of educating the future generation of the society. The primary interest of this study was to explore the construct of teacher commitment to determine its dimensions and components and finally design EFL Teachers’ Professional Commitment Questionnaire. First, through a thorough analysis of th...

Results: The response rate was 89% (n=1140). One thousand and sixty four teachers (93.3%) responded to the knowledge part of the questionnaire. The study showed that the school teachers in Bahrain are deficient in diabetic knowledge. The mean knowledge score was 5.34. Married teachers, primary school teachers and female teachers had better knowledge than other teachers. Also, knowledge was rela...

To draw EFL teachers’ attention to pronunciation difficulties resulting from L1 phonotactic constraints, this study examined the hypothesis that certain syllable structures could cause more mispronunciation than segmental sounds for Mandarin-speaking EFL learners. A 145-word reading passage was developed with a total of 30 target sounds, which included the problematic syllable structures that e...

While claims of the importance of attribution theory and teachers' expectations of students for student performance are repeatedly made, there is little comprehensive research identifying the perceptions preservice teachers have of students with learning disabilities (LD). Accordingly, 444 Australian preservice primary school teachers were surveyed using vignettes and Likert-scale questions, to...

Schools are important settings for comprehensive health promotion. School exerts the most influence on the lives of children and youth. Schools can play a key role in supporting students’ health and, by extension, the health of their families and communities. This school-based cross sectional descriptive study was conducted in Danuphyu Township from June to November, 2012. This study aimed to i...

BACKGROUND The prolonged use or abuse of voice may lead to vocal fatigue and vocal fold tissue damage. School teachers routinely use their voices intensively at work and are therefore at a higher risk of dysphonia. AIMS To determine the prevalence of voice disorders among primary school teachers in Lagos, Nigeria, and to explore associated risk factors. METHODS Teaching and non-teaching sta...

Subjective perception of randomness has been researched by psychologists and mathematics educators, using a variety of tasks, resulting in a number of different descriptions for the biases that characterize people's performances. Analyzing prospective teachers’ possible biases concerning randomness is highly relevant as new mathematics curricula for compulsory teaching levels are being proposed...

Teachers around the world work tirelessly to invest in technological innovations order raise educational standards and develop new teaching models strategies. "flipped learning" or classroom" is one of these model types that appears heavily rely on technology. This gaining worldwide attention among educators all levels disciplines. Although flipped classroom has gained popularity, few teachers ...