this article emphasizes the findings of a survey conducted to find out the views of students on the environmental education (ee) in iranian secondary school (ss) curriculum. a total of six hundred students from forty secondary schools, randomly selected ss from five zones in tehran city responded to the questionnaire. two research questions were asked while two hypotheses were tested in this st...

The present study was conducted on 200 secondary school students to find out the study habits of the students studying in government and private schools as well as students belonging from nuclear and joint family. Study habit inventory (Hindi version) constructed by Dr. B.V.Patel (1975) was used to collect the relevant data. Mean, S.D.and t-test was used to analyse the data. The finding reveale...

BACKGROUND A prospective study was conducted to evaluate the impact of an educational reproductive health program on medical student peer educators and the secondary school pupils whom they taught. METHODS The Marseille School of Medicine and ten public secondary schools participated in the study. Medical students were recruited and trained as peer educators to promote sexual health in the se...

BACKGROUND There is no information on the socio-demographic variations and determinants of Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Kenyan adolescents. OBJECTIVES To describe the traumatic experiences of Kenyan high school students and to determine the levels of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among them, and in relation to sociodemographic variables. DESIGN A cross-section...

The present study was conducted with the main purpose of identifying reading preferences of secondary school students and their related issues. The study was conducted on a total of 387 secondary school students of academic session 2010-12 in District Bahawalpur of Pakistan. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected through questionnaire and interview schedule respectively by adopting su...

Conflict between students is a common problem in the schools. If they are not supervised and controlled in a practical way, it can prevent school from reaching its goals and objectives and will have negative impact on school climate. One of the approaches for reducing conflict between individuals or groups at home or in the school or work place is mediation. Teaching students conflict managemen...

BACKGROUND Internal grade inflation is a documented practice in secondary schools (mostly in private schools) that jeopardises fairness with regard to access to medical school. However, it is frequently assumed that the higher internal grades are in fact justifiable, as they correspond to better preparation of students in private schools in areas that national exams do not cover but nevertheles...

background: noise, one of the major environmental nuisances, affects the learning ability of children negatively. objective: with the assumption that in the existing german 4-type school system children are exposed to various noise levels in each type of school, we investigated the association between children's school type and environmental noise level. methods: in this cross-sectional study, ...

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...