research-based instructional framework developed to meet the academic needs of ELL. In Sheltered Instruction: Best Practices for ELLs in the Mainstream by Holly Hansen-Thomas, (2008) research done on sheltered instructions includes the use of cooperative learning activities involving appropriate heterogeneous groups of ELL students. It includes the use of the ELL first language to enhance comprehensibility, and focuses in on the use of academic language as a key to the curriculum’s vocabulary. In summary
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Education is the key that unlocks the door to development. Ghana as a developing country has never relented in her efforts to draw up educational programmes to meet the changing demands, needs and aspirations of her citizens as well as the nation as a whole since independence in 1957. The first initiative in education taken by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was the Associated Development Plan that aimed at ensuring that every child of school going age
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REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Educational achievement of students demands urgent attention to attain their goals. A numerous researches have been conducted to contribute to determine the predictors of educational success of college students. A research work always takes the advantages of the information and the knowledge that had been accumulated in the past as a result of constant research endeavour by mankind. According to Koul (2009) research can never be undertaken in the isolation of the work
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The Social And Academic Implications Of Drug Abuse Among Undergraduates: A Case Study Of The Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Nigeria. Citation: Kobiowu, S.V. (2006) The Social And Academic Implications Of Drug Abuse Amonst Undergraduates: A Case Study of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation. 11 (1), 61-68 [pic] Abstract The researcher investigated the incidence of drug misuse among
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THE EFFECT OF STUDY HABIT ON STUDENT ACADEMIC PARFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY OF LAPAI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NIGER STATE. BY POPO-OLA OLAYINKA RUTH U11/FEA/ACE/028 DEPARTMENT OF CONTINUING EDUCATION AND COMMINITY DEVELOPMENT FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND ART IBRAHIM BADAMASI BABAGIDA UNVERSITY LAPAI, NIGER SATE. AUGUST, 2015 TABLE OF CONTEN Title page…………………………………………………………………………………………i Approval…………………………………………………………………………………….ii Dedication…………………………………………………………………………………..iii Acknowledgment……………………………………………………………………………iv
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on Student’s Academic Achievement and Learning Outcomes in Mathematics among Secondary School Students in Nigeria Adedeji Tella Osun State College of Education, Osun State, NIGERIA Received 10 January 2007; accepted 19 April 2007 In our match towards scientific and technological advancement, we need nothing short of good performance in mathematics at all levels of schooling. In an effort to achieve this, this study investigated the impact of motivation on students’ school academic achievement in
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University of the East, Manila College of arts and sciences A Study on the Factors Affecting the Failing Grades of 2nd year and 3rd year Tourism Students in the University of the East-Manila For S.Y 2011-2012 In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Tourism Research Method Tour 112 By: Honey Grace R. Gatasi July 2012 Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Being in school is one of the best opportunity that everyone could ever have, Studying
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ACTIVIES ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, DISCIPLINARY REFERRALS, AND SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AMONG HISPANIC FEMALE 11TH GRADE STUDENTS A Dissertation By Kelly J. Manlove BS, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1996 MS, University of North Texas, 2006 Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF EDUCATION In Educational Leadership Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, Texas May, 2013 THE IMPACT OF EXTRACURRICULAR ATHLETIC ACTIVIES ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
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essential to understand the factors underlying the premature and unprotected sex leading to unwanted pregnancies and STDs among adolescents. These risk factors include individual characteristics of adolescents as well as environmental factors. This paper will examine the reasons of pregnancy among teenagers and the consequences that are associated. Review of literature The teenage pregnancies occur more frequently, in the poorest neighborhoods, lower socio-economic backgrounds where young girls
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Resilient people have a remarkably rapid recovery from stress. A study of store managers at a large American retail chain store found that the managers who were most tense, beleaguered, or overwhelmed by job pressures ran stores with the worst performance, as measured four ways: by net profits, sales per square foot, sales per employee, and per dollar of inventory investment. And those who stayed most composed under the same pressures had the best per store sales records. Davidson said that the
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