Science Journal of Education

Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2017

  • Medical Students’ KCSE Grade and Their Relationship to Academic Performance: A Case of Egerton and Moi Universities, Kenya

    Ronald Omenge Obwoge, Mosol J. Priscah, Emarah Ashraf Mohamed, Fred Nyabuti Keraro, Simon Kangethe

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2017
    Pages: 34-44
    Received: Aug. 25, 2016
    Accepted: Nov. 25, 2016
    Published: Mar. 15, 2017
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    Abstract: Admission into Kenyan public universities’ medical schools is either by Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) or individual universities and their senates on self-sponsorship programmes (SSP) basis. The KUCCPS selected students have strong O-level grades in all subjects, with specific cluster science subjects and cumula... Show More
  • Analysis on the Path of Strengthening the Socialist Core Values Abased on the Accreditation of Engineering Education in China

    Zhang Weijie, Song Xinquan

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2017
    Pages: 45-49
    Received: Feb. 10, 2017
    Accepted: Feb. 28, 2017
    Published: Mar. 21, 2017
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    Abstract: It is an important measure to integrate the socialist core values into the whole process of national education. Engineering education accreditation is an important evaluation system for the development of Engineering Specialty in china, which needs the socialist core values. However, there are some problems on the establishment of the engineering e... Show More
  • Promoting the Entrepreneurial Success of Women Entrepreneurs Through Education and Training

    Käthe Schneider

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2017
    Pages: 50-59
    Received: Feb. 23, 2017
    Accepted: Mar. 07, 2017
    Published: Mar. 21, 2017
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    Abstract: To support early stage women entrepreneurs there is a need to increase their performance and growth potential through entrepreneurial education and training. The objective of the study is to develop a theoretically and empirically based entrepreneurship education and training for early stage women entrepreneurs. The focus of this study is placed ex... Show More
  • Searching Similar Books Based on Student’s Preference for Personalized Education

    Mingxi Zhang, Tianxing Liu, Xiaohong Wang, Liujie Sun

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2017
    Pages: 60-65
    Received: Mar. 01, 2017
    Accepted: Mar. 09, 2017
    Published: Mar. 25, 2017
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    Abstract: Personalized education aims to give students a personalized learning schedule according to students’ backgrounds and preferences, and the required learning resources for learning are personalized. On-line bookstore allows students to collect learning recourses on-line through Internet, but the problem of information overload plagues students since ... Show More
  • Language of Learning and Teaching as one of the Causes for Difficulties in Learning Fractions

    Coetzee J., Mammen K. J.

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2017
    Pages: 66-70
    Received: Mar. 29, 2017
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    Published: Mar. 29, 2017
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    Abstract: This paper evolved from a larger study and aimed to test the fractions skills of entry-level students at a South African comprehensive university. The focus in the paper is on the language of learning and teaching as one of the causes for difficulties in learning fractions for entry level science and engineering students. The sample consisted of 94... Show More
  • Factor Analysis of Academic Staff Satisfaction in Dire Dawa University, Ethiopia

    Dawit Daniel Dando, Getachew Liben Abate, Ashenafi Adugna Mola

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2017
    Pages: 71-81
    Received: Feb. 22, 2017
    Accepted: Mar. 09, 2017
    Published: Apr. 01, 2017
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    Abstract: Job satisfaction is defined as how people feel about their jobs, different aspects of their jobs and it is an emotion, a feeling and a matter of perception. This study was conducted to explore academic staff satisfaction with the university and to extract a set of factors from various dimensions used to measure satisfaction. A cross-sectional study... Show More