Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and company’s performance (CP) in Jordanian Companies Listed on ASE. Place and Duration of Study: The paper was undertaken in emerging economies, 107 companies listed on ASE during the 10-years 2002-2011 were selected as sample for this study. Design/Methodology/Approach: Data were collected by purposive sampling method, descriptive
The socio-psychological factors that impede/promote VCT services among youths in Anambra State of Nigeria were evaluated. 400 youths were randomly selected using multi-stage method. Questionnaire was used as the instrument. The split-half method was used to test the reliability of the instrument with correlation coefficient 0f .85. The result showed that socio-psychological factors that impede VCT as perceived by youths in Anambra State include fear of stigma (mean score 2.8), fear of positive test result (mean score 2.8), Abandonment and rejection (mean score 2.7), fear of lack of care and support if test is positive (mean score 2.6) while those factors identify to promote VCT include desire to know how to remain uninfected (mean score 3.5). It was concluded that since socio-psychological factors impede/promotes VCT as perceived by the youths, public should be made to understood that going to access VCT services does not mean that the individual is Original Research Article Ndie et al.; BJESBS, 20(1): 1-5, 2017; Article no.BJESBS.27833 2 already infected and want to confirm it in order to be receiving treatment rather it mean going to acquire information that will help one remain uninfected or reduce transmission of HIV and live healthy life if found infected.
Resilience, understood here as the way that parents cope with the vulnerability situation of having a child with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), gains importance when experiencing negativity in the family, school and social settings. The purpose of this study is to inquire into the relationship between resilience potential factors of parents of children with ASD, and disability acceptance and family functioning. This is a descriptive, non-experimental, cross-sectional, and correlational study. Eighty primary caregivers were administered a Resilience Potential Scale, a Family Functioning Scale, and a Semantic Differential Scale. One of the main findings from this study was the coexistence of risk and protective factors when facing this situation. When parents give meaning to their lives and can seek help to solve problems inherent to having a child with ASD, the family’s Original Research Article Rea-Amaya et al.; BJESBS, 20(1): 1-16, 2017; Article no.BJESBS.32522 2 emotional bond is strengthened. However, when they display distress, anguish, or concern over this event, little tolerance and rule inconsistency within the family become present. This indicates poor adaptability to having a child with ASD -hopelessness is a sign associated with non-acceptance of disability. Yet parents’ self-determination and the affliction caused by having a child with ASD help maintain adequate family functioning and seek external support.
Positions on and attitudes towards mathematics of Ethiopian female-teachers and female-students Abstract This research explores the positions on and attitudes towards mathematics held by teachers [hereafter – "teachers"] and Ethiopian female students [hereafter – "students"]. Israel is one of the largest immigration states around the globe. A successful immigration absorption is possible only when the new immigrants acquire the education and culture of their country of destination. Nevertheless, during the process of teaching, one cannot disregard the cultural context of the immigrants' country of origin. The research population consists of 28 teachers and students. This research is conducted according to the qualitative paradigm by means of a semi-structured interview which has been content-analysed. The results illustrate three similar parameters and three different parameters in the participants' positions on and attitudes towards mathematics. The three similar parameters are: difficulty in mathematics studies, mathematics as a factor affecting future success and importance of mathematics as leverage for success according to the participants' parents. The three different parameters are: perception of mathematics through animal metaphors, pleasure derived from mathematics studies and importance of the subject. The students and teachers' attitudes towards mathematics indicate a difficulty in learning mathematics. However, both they and their parents perceive mathematics as an important subject and a key to success in life. The contribution of this research to the education system is uncovering and understanding the teachers and students' perception of mathematics. Learning these perceptions enables building unique programmes which respond to the real needs emerging from the field. Based on the results it is recommended that the education system builds and develops mathematics curricula for the students and in-training and mathematical professional development programmes for the teachers. Such programmes underscore the students' cultural aspect and provide an appropriate response to populations coming from different cultures.
Formal education is considered an important means of acquiring knowledge and skills (both attitudinal and technical) for developing human capital stocks; and it increases one’s ability to understand and critique new ideas necessary for facilitating the adoption and/or modification of technology as fundamental to development, growth and poverty reduction in nations across the globe. As nations and the world at large relentlessly channel huge resources into educating their citizenry, assessment is identified as the main means of obtaining authentic feedback to improve students’ learning, teaching and educational programs at all levels. Despite the good attributes and over reliance on assessment, opinions suggest that the ability to identify good assessment techniques is not intuitive supporting the fact that there is no one best approach to assessment. Reported cases of cheating and all kinds of manipulations surrounding conduct of assessments and/or examinations in higher education (HE), together with the advent of mass enrollments at almost all levels of education, the apparent lack of equal expansion in the facilities, non-provision of adequate logistics, and the inability of authorities to properly co-ordinate and/or manage Short Research Article Gbadago et al.; BJESBS, 20(3): 1-18, 2017; Article no.BJESBS.29093 2 assessment processes as expected have largely accounted for the vociferous calls for review or search for alternative(s) to assessment in education worldwide, more importantly in Ghana. This study therefore sought to ascertain and analyse the perceptions of stakeholders on the assessment process in HE to determine the repercussions of such perceptions. The study involved a cross-sectional survey of students and other stakeholders in HE from the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana. The results show that the stakeholders’ perceptions on assessment in HE largely coincided with prior studies on assessments that have served as the basis for most pedagogical instructions and educational programs.
In this article, the play used in preschool class education is discussed. On the one hand, research has shown that there seems to be a positional shift towards a more academic and schoolpreparatory ...
In the globalised world where people travel from one country to other easily and also live there, it may be crucial to know the similarity or the difference of constitutions, the basis of the whole legal regulations in the country where they will live and adopt. The aim of this study is to “find out the most emphasized educational points in countries’ constitutions and whether the educational items differ or not according to the development level of countries and to compare educational items of countries in the constitutions. So educational items of 187 countries’ constitutions which take place in Human Development Report are examined and analysed in terms of development level of countries. When the items in the constitutions are examined, it is seen that the most repeated item is “Equality in Education” and there is no relation between number of referring to education in constitutions and the development level of countries. Original Research Article Toprakçı and Yanar; BJESBS, 19(3): 1-14, 2017; Article no.BJESBS.29883 2
