Reading habit is considered an important construct in reading research as it serves as a significant predictor of reading achievement. However, there is still no consensus on how to best measure reading habit. In recent research, it has mostly been measured as behavioral frequency; this approach neglects the fact that repeated behavior does not cover the broad content of habitual behavior-such ...

How to cite this article: Louw, D.A., George, E., & Esterhuyse, K. (2011). Burnout amongst urban secondary school teachers in Namibia. SA Journal of Industrial Psychology/SA Tydskrif vir Bedryfsielkunde, 37(1), Art. #1008, 7 pages. doi:10.4102/sajip.v37i1.1008 Orientation: Burnout seems to be particularly common amongst professionals who help and enable people to cope with the demands of their ...

This article profiles the historical twin databases of the secondary education school attached to the Faculty of Education at the University of Tokyo. The school was established in 1948. Every year, about 50 pairs of twins of all sex and zygosity combinations and aged 11 to 12 years take an examination, and about 10 to 20 pairs are admitted based on the results. Three independent datasets exist...

After decades of building, the American dream for universal, free secondary' educa tion was finally achieved in the early 1960s when the overwhelming majority of the country's youth was enrolled in high schools There had been strains on the system of high schools as it grew; now that it is fully in place, the stresses arc more insis tently apparent raising the question of whether the high schoo...

During the preschool years assessment is an on-going process, ideally in a nursery school with specially trained staff. In doubtful cases the child may start in a special school and be promoted to an ordinary school. The responsibility for placing a child in an ordinary school is a serious one because failure can be a searing experience for the child. A child who has to be transferred from a no...

BACKGROUND Studies examining the correlates of school transport commonly fail to make the distinction between morning and afternoon school trips. The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence and correlates of mode shift from passive in the morning to active in the afternoon among elementary and secondary school students in Ontario, Canada. METHODS Data were derived from the 2009 cy...

This study is designed to investigate the level of awareness of primary and secondary school teachers invited for a capacity building workshop on ICT of Nigeria‘s educational policy on ICT as well as its possible influence on the use of ICT for classroom teaching and learning. Two hundred volunteers (out of the 250 participants invited from all the Local Government Areas of the state) at an ICT...