ABSTRACT This study aimed at examining the management model in partnership between government and religious institutions in the provision of primary education in Tanzania, specifically Buigili primary school which was treated as a case study. The study was conducted in the Dodoma region, specifically in the Chamwino district where Buigiri primary school is located. The study was guided by Structural Functionalism Theory which based on the assumption that it increases awareness and understan...
The study describes how mothers and daughters communicate about sex and sex related matters by focusing on four underlying dimensions – content, style, timing, and frequency of communication. A sequential mixed method research design was utilized to gather data from participants. Data analyses of questionnaires were based on a random sample of 32 mothers and 204 teenage daughters from four secondary schools. Results from analysis of questionnaires revealed that sexual communication among ma...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research study was to explore the implementation of Continuous Assessment (CA) in Grade 10 Mathematics in Oshikoto Education Region. The study employed explanatory mixed methods research design which was carried out sequentially, beginning with the quantitative phase and then the qualitative phase. Ten Grade 10 Mathematics teachers from ten schools (one from each school) were selected for the quantitative phase which involved the use of questionnaires. From ten t...
ABSTRACT Education in Namibia after independence remains a challenge, despite deliberate efforts made by the government. Many of the learners under perform in their Grade 12 Mathematics examinations, especially in the Oshana Education Region. This is allegedly because of a numerical deficiency. However; none of existing studies explain the influence of numerical deficiency on academic performance in Mathematics.
ABSTRACT In this research a quantitative approach was employed to conduct a correlation study on the possible impact of retained primitive reflexes on concentration problems. Secondary data from existing client documents were used. These comprised the test scores of four of the cognitive processes included in the Cognitive Assessment System (Naglieri & Das, 1997a) – Planning, Attention, Simultaneous and Successive processes. The outcomes of an observation study indicating the presence of f...
Abstract The main purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that affect Grade 12 learners’ academic performance in the Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary (NSSCO) level Biology in the Khomas Educational Region, Namibia. The study addressed two research questions. Three categories of samples made up of 15 Science Heads of Departments (HODs), 15 Biology teachers and 450 Grade 12 NSSCO Biology learners respectively were selected using the simple random sampling technique....
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate whether pre-school children came from homes to pre-schools already exposed to writing and reading skills and whether there was a gap between the home and pre-school literacy events and practices. The study used a mixed methodology, qualitative and quantitative research designs. Six Preschool teachers were interviewed from three pre-schools in Khomas education region. The researcher combined the two research methods in this study because s...
ABSTRACT Since 2009, Grade five and seven learners in Namibia have been writing the National Standardized Achievement Tests (NSATs), where one grade writes at the end of one year and the other writes at the end of the following year (Directorate of National Examinations and Assessment, DNEA, 2013). This study was conducted based on the performance of the Grades five and seven learners at selected schools in Khomas Region. The purpose of this study was to find out which reading comprehension ...
Abstract This was a qualitative case study which investigated the factors which make English texts difficult for second language learners of English to understand. A criterion sampling procedure, which stipulates the selection of participants who share the same characteristics, was used. Fiftyeight grade 12 learners and six teachers of content subjects at Ongha Senior Secondary School took part in this study. A comprehension test and interviews were used as research instruments and a themati...
Abstract This paper employ various econometric techniques to analyze the determinants of inflation in Namibia, focusing particularly on the relationships that exist between the Namibian price, as the dependant variable, and the real Gross Domestics Product, Broad money supply, interest rate, and South African Price index as well as the United States price index, being the explanatory variables and probable determinants of inflation rate in Namibia.. Inflation equations that were estimated us...
Abstract This thesis was an analysis of satire as a tool for socio-political commentary in The Rambler’s articles. The study analysed the strategies that The Rambler used in 40 articles that were published in 2015 in The Namibian newspaper. In addition, the study sought to analyse how these strategies were employed in The Rambler’s satire to foreground socio-political issues. The study was qualitative because the process of data analysis involved organising raw data (articles) for classi...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges facing novice teachers: the case of selected schools in the Zambezi region. Qualitative research study was carried out and a case study approach was used to select six schools. The study used unstructured or semi-structured techniques in data collection. A non- probability sampling technique namely purposeful sampling was used. The researcher purposefully selected informative rich participants in order to get more informati...
ABSTRACT In 1990, when Namibia gained independence, about 43000 exiled Namibians were repatriated back home from different countries. Included in this number were soldiers and refugees including children who were born during the liberation struggle. These children have been called “Exiled Kids,” “Returnees Children,” Ex-War Children,” SWAPO Children” and so on. However, later on they were officially called Children of the Liberation Struggle (CLS) after they had come to prominenc...
ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study was to investigate factors hampering grade 5 learners’ reading comprehension in English Second Language in the Oshana Region. The study employed mixed methods of both qualitative and quantitative research designs. The study also used a triangulation procedure during data collection. A simple random sampling procedure was used to select 40 schools from 88 schools with grade 5, 25 teachers and 60 learners from selected schools. A criterion purposeful s...
ABSTRACT This study explored the support rendered by education stakeholders to teachers of learners with visual impairments. This study was conducted at an inclusive secondary school in the Oshana region. The purposeful criterion sampling technique was used to select seven teachers who were teaching learners with visual impairments at the time of research to participate in the study. The interview guide was used as an instrument to collect data from the participants. With the permission of t...