Science Journal of Education

Volume 2, Issue 6, December 2014

  • Stakeholders’ Assessment of Ghana’s Post Independence Educational Policies

    Gyedu Francis

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 6, December 2014
    Pages: 170-179
    Received: Nov. 04, 2014
    Accepted: Nov. 18, 2014
    Published: Nov. 29, 2014
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    Abstract: The study sought to assess three major post-independence educational policies of Ghana from a historical perspective. These three policies are the Education Act of 1961, the Education Reform of 1987 and the Education Reform of 2007. The study was located within the qualitative historical comparative design and involved 10 people who were selected t... Show More
  • A Gender Study on College Students’ Academic Self-Efficacy

    Juan Francisco Aguirre Chavez, Francisco Muñoz Beltran, Alejandro Chavez Guerrero, Maria del Carmen Zueck Enriquez, Jesus Jasso Reyes

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 6, December 2014
    Pages: 180-184
    Received: Dec. 09, 2014
    Accepted: Dec. 23, 2014
    Published: Jan. 04, 2015
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    Abstract: The purpose of this study is to compare female and male college students’ academic self-efficacy. The overall sample consisted of 1,995 participants, 862 women and 1,133 men, all freshman students at the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (Autonomous University of Chihuahua). The average age is 18.18 years (SD= 0.68). This quantitative study has a s... Show More
  • Generalizations of Pythagoras’ Theorem

    Luiz Gonzaga Xavier de Barros

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 6, December 2014
    Pages: 185-187
    Received: Nov. 12, 2014
    Accepted: Dec. 25, 2014
    Published: Jan. 06, 2015
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    Abstract: Pythagoras’ Theorem is one of the most fascinating results in the History of Mathematics. Although there are indications that the result was already known before by the Babylonians, was with the Pythagorean School that there was a formal demonstration of this theorem. As Loomis (1972), in 1940 were known at least 340 different demonstrations of the... Show More