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Nwosu, Lilian Ifunanya; Matashu, Martha – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
This study explored the perceived human resources factors influencing the performance of accounting learners in North West secondary schools in South Africa. Despite the significant role that secondary school accounting education is perceived to play in shaping the development of accounting professionals, few studies have focused on investigating…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Accounting, Academic Achievement
Zorzos, Michail; Avgerinos, Eugenios – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
Data analysis is one of the most popular fields of mathematics and includes statistics and probability. These two mathematical domains are some of the most well-known, influencing everyday life and the various sciences. Their teaching lays the foundation for primary education and culminates in secondary education. Probability and statistics are…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
Adu, Kemi O.; Badaru, Kazeem Ajasa; Duku, Ntombozuko; Adu, Emmanuel O. – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
Innovation and technology brought by the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) have become an urgent reality to all teachers because of the need for a virtual classroom. In South Africa, over 13 million students in almost 25,000 schools have been affected by the COVID-19 lockdown. Most school teachers were not trained for online teaching, which was the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
Vural, Haldun – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
Translation is closely related to languages, linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, culture etc. and because of these relations, there are also a lot of theories which give importance either to source language or target language. Linguistic and other features of the source and target texts have been examined for years. But translator is an…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Translation, Personality Measures, College Students
Ofori-Kusi, Daniel; Tachie, Simon Adjei Tachie – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
This study investigates the effects of WhatsApp social media learning group in the teaching and learning of mathematics with first year underprepared university students. The study was undertaken using a quantitative research method. It employed a randomised post-test-only with a non-equivalent groups design to investigate if there is a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Social Media, Technology Uses in Education, College Freshmen
Tachie, Simon Adjei; Kariyana, Israel – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
This study sought to research first-year South African university students' attitudes towards interactive school learning and then to determine their perspectives and reflective experiences regarding interactive learning. Data was gathered during the first week of their first university lectures. The sample was 129 freshmen. The study adopted a…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Interaction
Baytak, Ahmet – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has changed the lifestyles throughout the World. This study aims to investigate the health students' perception of online education. The field of health requires practical education. Indeed, online education has a different concept. Thus, the health students' perceptions draw attention especially during the hard time…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Education, Electronic Learning
Adigun, Olufemi Timothy; Ndwandwe, Ntokozo Dennis – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
This study aimed to assess the contributory roles of parental involvement (PI), parental acceptance/rejection (PAR), academic self-efficacy (ASE), computer user self-efficacy (CUSE) vis-à-vis gender and the onset of deafness on the academic resilience (AR) of deaf learners who participated in e-learning during the pandemic. The Bioecological…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Deafness, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
Korkmaz, Sevda – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
The establishment of the new Turkish state was accompanied by a new governmental system, modernization efforts, and reforms in all fields of life. Education, acknowledged as a phenomenon that prepares new generations for the future, became one of the main concerns among the republican reform programs. The lack of specialists to implement new…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Foreign Countries, Government (Administrative Body)
Gqokonqana, Onke; Olarewaju, Odunayo Magret; Cloete, Melanie Bernice – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
Every sector in the twenty-first century makes use of technology for its activities, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic and higher education institutions are not exceptional. However, the cohorts enrolled in the selected higher education institution are from technologically challenged backgrounds. This suggests that in their previous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Higher Education, COVID-19
Kaya, Mehmet Melik – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
In Turkey, the Republican Era, which started in 1923, is a period in which state institutions were rapidly restructured and these institutions were reconstituted within the framework of the ideology of the newly established state. Education has taken its share in this reconstruction process as well. One of the important regulations in the field of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Educational History, Curriculum
Khathi, Joseph Lamlani; Ajani, Oluwatoyin Ayodele; Govender, Samantha – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
Values education has become a necessary tool in response to the rise in moral deterioration in an average South African society today. The school is viewed as one of the key players in nurturing children into adulthood. The teaching of values that can give the growing generation, necessary moral development is one of the responsibilities of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Values Education, High School Teachers, Teaching Methods
Platformisation of Education: An Analysis of South African Universities' Learning Management Systems
Badaru, Kazeem Ajasa; Adu, Emmanuel O. – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2022
Several studies have focused attention on the crisis of the COVID19 pandemic and the impact on the traditional face-to-face teaching and learning activities across the globe. There is, however, little research regarding the platformisation of education with the aid of the learning management systems (LMSs) in the contexts of South African…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Learning Management Systems, Content Analysis
Williams, Tamika K.; McIntosh, Robert W.; Russell, William B., III. – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2021
This study uses the phenomenological approach to qualitative research to explore the COVID-19 distance learning experiences of educators who served students with varying digital access and efficacy. The researchers analyzed survey data collected from 13 educators that was used to guide a focus group discussion with 11 educators. The participants…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Educational Technology
Reyes, Adriana-Elizabeth – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2021
The main aim of this paper was to analyze how medicinal gardens in secondary schools can improve teaching-learning processes in rural settings. The sample comprised 179 students (69.3% girls) from a rural public secondary school in the province of Huila (Colombia). The age of the participants ranged from 15 to 17 years with a mean of 15.86 years…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Gardening, Situated Learning, Secondary School Students