TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface... ......... ....................................................................................................... 1 1. General Introduction to Meta-Analysis ......................................................... 3 1.1 Reviewing and integrating the research literature ............................................ 3 1.2 Vote-counting: An inadequate attempt at quanti...

E fforts to improve the quality of the teacher workforce have risen to the top of the education policy agenda during the past decade. More than ever, policymakers are drawing on research to inform their positions. One research finding that policymakers cite consistently in conversations about teaching quality is that teachers face a “performance plateau” after their first few years of teaching....

This paper draws out and distils three key themes that have emerged from a substantial bibliographical review of a range of HIV intervention programmes, implemented throughout the world between years 1987 and 1995. Specifically, the paper assesses (1) to what extent intervention programmes have been tailored to meet the requirements and needs of specific target groups; (2) to what extent interv...

In a broad sense, postcolonial literature is writing which has been “affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day” (Ashcroft et al, 2). In India’s case, this includes novels, poetry, and drama which were written both during and after the British Raj or “Reign,” which came to a formal conclusion with Indian Independence in August 1947. Although writing from...

nizar qabbani a poet of love, women and politics, was born in damascus. it is more aljamahirin arab poets in the arab world made own language characterized by qualities and is no stranger to the language or have been borrowed from other languages. they are the same as those unable to several poets from processed and throw them difficult and not comply with the language of poetry, and in spite o...