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Leadership for Success: The Jamaican School Experience, by Disraeli Hutton and Beverly Johnson

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Leadership for Success: The Jamaican School Experience lays the foundation for an important discussion on school leadership and management in Jamaica. The foundational issues raised in the book may be summarized as: (a) the leadership versus management dialectic in interpreting the primary role of the principal; (b) the trait versus environment (nature versus nurture) influence on leadership; (c) the twin factors of leadership and quality of teaching and learning as the key determinants of students’ performance; and (d) the characteristics of effective schools.

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Observations from secondary school classrooms in Trinidad and Tobago: Science teachers’ use of ICTs and ICT-based activities in their lessons

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This study was undertaken to examine and interpret how science teachers in Trinidad and Tobago use ICT devices and ICT-based teaching and learning activities in their science teaching. A total of 30 lessons taught by five different teachers were observed and analyzed using an interpretative research methodology to develop generalized observations. The findings revealed that in general, science teachers used ICT devices in most of their lessons but that ICT-based activities were used in only twenty per cent of the lessons observed.

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Multimedia and Cognitive Ability: Teacher Librarians’ Perception of Cognitive Effects of Multimedia Learning in Selected School Libraries in the Caribbean

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Research has shown that multimedia plays an important role in the development of the cognitive abilities of students. Therefore, the research objectives of this study were to find out what types of multimedia resources were present in selected school libraries in the Caribbean, as well as how these multimedia resources were used in instruction by school librarians, and to draw conclusions on teacher librarians’ perception of the effects that multimedia learning has on students’ cognitive ability. The sample consisted of 162 teacher librarians.

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Cost Sharing in Higher Education Financing: A Model for the Caribbean

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The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has recognized the importance of developing its human capital base as part of its strategy for sustainable economic development. As such, OECS member countries have collectively embarked on education reform. Human capital formation is derived from a production function engaging monetary inputs and as such, the production of human capital must be undertaken giving much thought to the financial constraints.

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School-Based Change from Within: Supporting Leadership Development, Supporting Sustainable Development

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In Caribbean nations such as Jamaica, the issue of antisocial and violent behaviour in schools is an increasing source of concern and a critical challenge. Given the seriousness of the problem, the purpose of this paper is to highlight the Change from Within programme, an intervention to address violence and anti-social behaviours within Jamaican schools, and one whose methodology supports leadership development amongst all school stakeholders. The role of leadership in shaping school culture is widely acknowledged.

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A Comparative Analysis of Students’ Performance Using ICT in Blended versus Online Course Delivery

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It is widely agreed that the scholarship of online education is not on par with the delivery of online education. This view is expressed given the increasing rate of technological developments, as well as the various pedagogical techniques and our inability to clearly understand the impact of various techniques on students’ performance. Although online education is gaining in popularity, there is the perception that it is inferior to other modes of delivery; but a major university in Jamaica has instituted numerous initiatives which seek to dispel this perception.

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Learning is Just a Click Away: A Case Study on the Introductory Use of Student Response Systems (“Clickers”) in Higher Education

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This case study documents a pilot project designed to describe the usefulness of Student Response Systems or clickers in promoting active learning at the tertiary level. A convenience sample of five lecturers and 140 students participated in the study over two semesters where lecturers were allowed to use clickers during class activity in whatever manner they chose. Results indicated that most participants felt that clickers helped to make courses more interactive and engaging. Nearly half of the students felt that clickers improved instructor-student communication.

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Comparative Analysis of Two Instructional Strategies and their Impacts on Selected University Engineering Students' Performances in Particle Technology

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This study examined the effects of active learning versus traditional lecturing on the academic performance of particle technology students in order to identify the more effective teaching strategy. Two active learning models were used, namely, cooperative and collaborative learning. The population of the study consisted of 38 third-year students enrolled in the Bachelor of Engineering in chemical engineering programme at a university in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Strategies for Enhancing the Relationship of TVET Institutions with Industry

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The relationship of TVET institutions with industries is of paramount importance since the primary business of these institutions is to interpret the market demand signals and prepare human resources to satisfy the manpower needs of industries. Sustainable relationships between TVET institutions and industries are established for reasons which benefit both entities.

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Policy Proposal for Human Capital Development in the Jamaican Higher Education System

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In this policy analysis paper, the goal is to identify a suitable policy from some alternatives to address the shortage of human capital development in Jamaica. According to the Taskforce on Higher Education and Society (2000), higher education is the vehicle that developing countries must use to drive economic advancement and build their competitive edge. It is because of this kind of admonition that this paper specifically explores opportunities within the Jamaican higher education system for a possible course of action for government and other stakeholders.

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