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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Wamala, Robert; Seruwagi, Gerald – Journal of International Education Research, 2013
The study investigates the influence of teacher competence on the academic achievement of sixth grade students in Uganda. The investigation is based on data sourced from the 2009 Southern African Consortium for Monitoring Education Quality (SACMEQ) survey comprising 5,148 records of sixth grade students enrolled in primary schools in Uganda. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Grade 6, Elementary School Students
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Wamala, Robert; Nabachwa, Mary Sonko; Chamberlain, Jean; Nakalembe, Eva – Journal of International Education Research, 2012
This article examines the level of knowledge of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) among university faculty. The assessment is based on data from 197 academic unit or faculty heads randomly selected from universities in Uganda and Kenya. Frequency distributions and logistic regression were used for analysis. Slightly more than one in three…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
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Oonyu, Joseph C.; Wamala, Robert – Journal of International Education Research, 2012
This paper investigates the influence of the examination stage of student theses on the completion time of graduate studies at Makerere University, Uganda. The assessment is based on the administrative data of 504 Master's degree students in the 2000 to 2008 enrollment cohorts at the School of Education, Makerere University. The total elapsed time…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Statistical Distributions, Foreign Countries, Masters Theses
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Wamala, Robert; Oonyu, Joseph; Ocaya, Bruno – Journal of International Education Research, 2011
Issues related to attrition and completion time of graduate studies are certainly an internationally challenging and important area of higher education literature. In this paper, completion time dynamics of doctoral studies at Makerere University were investigated based on data extracted for all 295 candidates in the commencement cohorts from 2000…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries, Time to Degree