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Ouedraogo, Issoufou; Hirakawa, Yukiko; Taniguchi, Kyoko – Education 3-13, 2021
This study examines how school-level and student-level factors influence primary school dropout in Burkina Faso. School-level factors were found to have a moderate effect in grade three and a small effect in grade five, while student performance on end-of-term class tests significantly affected students' decisions to drop out in both grades. Other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Decision Making
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Demir, Meral; Soytürk, Mümine; Öztürk, Özden Tepeköylü – Journal of Educational Issues, 2020
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of inquiry-based instruction in the teaching of fundamental movement skills to fifth-grade students on the children's perceived motor competence. Utilizing a post-test experimental design with control group, the study was carried out with 260 fifth-grade students studying in ten different classes…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Basic Skills, Psychomotor Skills, Movement Education
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Oluwalola, Felicia Kikelomo – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2019
The study examined business studies and employability skills development in junior secondary schools in Ilorin metropolis Kwara State. Five research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. A survey research designed was adopted for the study. The population of this study comprises all the 4570 teachers in all the private and public junior…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Education, Junior High Schools, Junior High School Students
Graham, Lorraine; Pegg, John – Online Submission, 2010
This paper reports data from the evaluation of the numeracy component of a long-running educational intervention, covering the period from 2001 to 2008. "QuickSmart" is both an intervention and research project operating in Australian schools. It is a structured intervention program designed for middle-school students (ages 10 to 13…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Intervention, Numeracy, Achievement Tests
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Dooley, Karen – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
The arrival of substantial cohorts of English language learners from Africa with little, no or severely interrupted schooling is requiring new pedagogic responses from teachers in Australia and other Western countries of refugee re-settlement. If the students are to have optimal educational and life chances, it is crucial for them to acquire…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Educationally Disadvantaged, Refugees, English (Second Language)