Stakeholders’ Assessment of Ghana’s Post Independence Educational Policies
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 6, December 2014
Pages:
170-179
Received:
4 November 2014
Accepted:
18 November 2014
Published:
29 November 2014
Abstract: The study sought to assess three major post-independence educational policies of Ghana from a historical perspective. These three policies are the Education Act of 1961, the Education Reform of 1987 and the Education Reform of 2007. The study was located within the qualitative historical comparative design and involved 10 people who were selected through purposive sampling. Data were collected through interviews and documentary analysis. The findings of the study concluded that the educational policies under study came at periods when they were most needed. They were able to achieve to a large extent the dictates of their respective missions. Nevertheless, there were minor difficulties that adversely affected the achievement of some areas of their respective mandates. The study recommended that educational provision and regulation should be directed by national philosophy and not political philosophy. Plans concerning education should be the responsibility of all the stakeholders and politicians in the country, subject to review within a period agreed upon by all the stakeholders.
Abstract: The study sought to assess three major post-independence educational policies of Ghana from a historical perspective. These three policies are the Education Act of 1961, the Education Reform of 1987 and the Education Reform of 2007. The study was located within the qualitative historical comparative design and involved 10 people who were selected t...
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A Gender Study on College Students’ Academic Self-Efficacy
Juan Francisco Aguirre Chavez,
Francisco Muñoz Beltran,
Alejandro Chavez Guerrero,
Maria del Carmen Zueck Enriquez,
Jesus Jasso Reyes
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 6, December 2014
Pages:
180-184
Received:
9 December 2014
Accepted:
23 December 2014
Published:
4 January 2015
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to compare female and male college students’ academic self-efficacy. The overall sample consisted of 1,995 participants, 862 women and 1,133 men, all freshman students at the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (Autonomous University of Chihuahua). The average age is 18.18 years (SD= 0.68). This quantitative study has a survey-type, descriptive design. Differences found between men and women regarding their perceived self-efficacy, suggest that any effort to improve perceived self-efficacy must take gender into consideration.
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to compare female and male college students’ academic self-efficacy. The overall sample consisted of 1,995 participants, 862 women and 1,133 men, all freshman students at the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (Autonomous University of Chihuahua). The average age is 18.18 years (SD= 0.68). This quantitative study has a s...
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Generalizations of Pythagoras’ Theorem
Luiz Gonzaga Xavier de Barros
Issue:
Volume 2, Issue 6, December 2014
Pages:
185-187
Received:
12 November 2014
Accepted:
25 December 2014
Published:
6 January 2015
Abstract: Pythagoras’ Theorem is one of the most fascinating results in the History of Mathematics. Although there are indications that the result was already known before by the Babylonians, was with the Pythagorean School that there was a formal demonstration of this theorem. As Loomis (1972), in 1940 were known at least 340 different demonstrations of the Pythagoras’ Theorem, whose enunciation is as follows: “In any right triangle, the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares whose sides are over each cathetus”. This article discusses Pythagoras’ Theorem and some generalizations, and introduces a new generalization of this important theorem.
Abstract: Pythagoras’ Theorem is one of the most fascinating results in the History of Mathematics. Although there are indications that the result was already known before by the Babylonians, was with the Pythagorean School that there was a formal demonstration of this theorem. As Loomis (1972), in 1940 were known at least 340 different demonstrations of the...
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