The purpose of the study was to establish which of (i) age (ii) gender and (iii) organizational culture is a correlate of use of knowledge management systems (KMS) among teachers, senior administrators and postgraduate students in Makerere University. The study was a co-relational and crosssectional survey biased to the quantitative approach, involving 444 respondents from the University, from ...

McCombs GB, Ufnar JA, Shepherd VL. The Virtual Scientist: connecting university scientists to the K–12 classroom through videoconferencing. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 62–66, 2007; doi:10.1152/ advan.00006.2006.—The Vanderbilt University Center for Science Outreach (CSO) connects university scientists to the K–12 community to enhance and improve science education. The Virtual Scientist program utilize...

background and purpose: this study intends to identify the numbers and some characteristics of the teachers of various english courses offered at medical universities affiliated to the ministry of health during the second semester of the academic year 2005-6. methods: the methods used in this research were “gathering existing data”, and “descriptive study”. the research was conducted by sending...

Maslach and Jackson first introduced the concept of ‘burnout’- a state of physical and emotional exhaus- tion emerging from work conditions- in 1980. The importance of investigations of burn out lies in the fact that it is directly related to the quality of teaching. There are three basic criteria set to predict, evaluate, and prevent burnout: depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, and person...

This study explored the influences of socializers (e.g., parents, teachers, peers, and counsellors) on the university female students’ decisions to pursue careers in mathematics-related disciplines. Data were collected through interviews and focus group meeting from six female students in the second to final year from mathematics and physics departments at the mid-size university in Canada. The...

Prospective teachers in their third year of a Bachelor of Education degree in secondary teacher education use a journal to respond to a range of questions about their experiences as learners prior to, during and after their first practicum. These stories are used as a source of data to analyze how 14 prospective secondary teachers understand the interaction between university–based and school-b...

Except for the influential graduates, the content of the development core of universities needs to improve the scientific allocation of teacher resources, and the most relevant content to human resource of teacher is the salary incentive system. While the system related to performance appraisal system is the performance assessment system, so the sound and perfect performance appraisal system of...

introduction. in educational centers, evaluation of educational activities of teachers is done in different ways. one of the most common ways » nearly in all important universities « is student evaluation of teaching (set), which is done by questionnaires. scientific evidences have showed that in spite of frequent usage of this kind of evaluation, opinions of students about teacher’s performanc...