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Lazarous Mbulo; Glenda Blutcher-Nelson; Pranesh P. Chowdhury; Catherine O. Egbe; Abdallahi Bouhabib; Krishna Palipudi – Health Education Research, 2024
We utilized Global Adult Tobacco Survey data to examine singlestick purchases and related demographic characteristics in 10 African countries (Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Mauritania, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda and Tanzania). Results show the weighted percentages and prevalence ratios with predicted marginal means to evaluate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, Demography, Age Differences
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Piper, Benjamin; Zuilkowski, Stephanie Simmons – International Review of Education, 2015
In recent years, the Education for All movement has focused more intensely on the quality of education, rather than simply provision. Many recent and current education quality interventions focus on literacy, which is the core skill required for further academic success. Despite this focus on the quality of literacy instruction in developing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Fluency, Reading Tests, Oral Reading
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Muraya, Daniel Ngaru; Kimamo, Githui – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
Performance in Biology at secondary school level in Kenya remains poor and one reason is the teaching approach adopted by teachers with teacher-centered approaches being pre-dominant. This study sought to determine the effect of cooperative learning approach on mean achievement scores in Biology of secondary school students.…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Teacher Effectiveness, Achievement Tests, Cooperative Learning
Wachanga, Samuel W.; Mwangi, John Gowland – International Education Journal, 2004
Successful teaching and learning of chemistry depends partly on correct use of a teaching method whose activities target most learning senses. Though chemistry enhances students' learning of biology, physics and agriculture on which Kenyan industries and prosperity depend, most secondary school students in Kenya perform poorly on the subject. This…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Academic Achievement, Chemistry, Foreign Countries