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Knowledge of Basic Geometrical Concepts among Jamaican Schoolchildren

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A survey was done to assess the level of knowledge of elementary geometrical concepts (primarily recognition of basic shapes and knowledge of their properties) among Grade 5 students in upper and lower streams and Grade 9 students in selective and non-selective schools in Kingston, Jamaica. The test instrument was also administered to groups at the same educational levels in West Germany.

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Assessing Principled Moral Thinking among Student Teachers in Trinidad

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Today schools are inescapably, though not deliberately, involved in moral education and teachers are significant agents in facilitating moral thinking and moral conduct. If teachers themselves think and speak and act at levels recognizably below those to which they must lead their students, then structures and processes must be found to promote 'the moral point of view' as an integral part of teacher education, school practice and organization.

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Educational Research of Some Graduate Students of U.W.I.: A Commentary

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SKU: CJE-9-2-3

The paper considers the research work carried out by a sample of graduate students of the School of Education U.W.I., and highlights the potential value of such investigations in terms of the understandings they impart, and the directions for improvement they indicate. Problems related to the dissemination and implementation of the recommendations arising from these understandings are discussed.

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Sex Differences in the Qualitative Performance of Jamaican Adolescents on the Circles Test of Creativity

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There has been growing interest, over the past twenty years or so, in the importance of creative production as an aspect of human intellect and personality. Results of numerous investigations in this field have provided some thought-provoking information on the relationship between creativity and educational concerns such as curriculum structure, contextual/situational factors of the school, and academic orientation and sex differences among students, although, in respect of the latter aspect, there tends to be conflicting opinions.

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Aptitude And Achievement

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Education has always been vulnerable to psychometric incursions and influence, although less so now than before. Lacking a distinctive and self-confident view about the purpose of testing in schools and about what kinds of tests were suitable and unsuitable, it has, rather like a client state, looked on helplessly as psychometric doctrines and practices have been installed and put to work.

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Training School Principals: A Timely Plea

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SKU: CJE-9-3-4

The job of administering schools has become increasingly complex because of the many societal changes occasioning new demands on the school. Principals are held accountable for administration of their schools, and their effectiveness depends largely on their ability to respond appropriately to the many changing internal and external demands, and to maintain the stability and cohesiveness necessary to the achievement of established goals.

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Socio-Linguistic Norms and Linguistic Diversity in a West Indian Community

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SKU: CJE-9-3-3

The ethnolinguistic claim that residents of communities of dialectical diversity who interact with a wide cross-section of speakers need competencies, active and passive, in various dialects, and sensitivity to sociolinguistic norms and their role in acerbating and ameliorating social conflicts has pragmatic currency, particularly in regard to the pedagogical decisions of educators. A refined awareness of the language and culture of the student's community can function to yield rational educational models and intervention strategies.

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Textbook Content and Reading Interests of Jamaican Primary School Children

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This study proposes a schema for categorising reading interests based on an identification of basic interest and dominant interest(s) among interest elements in reading materials. A methodology which involved making forced choices within thirteen groups of three passages, each with a unique combina-tion of interest elements, was used to ascertain the reading interests of 438 fourth and 412 first grade children in fourteen primary schools in Jamaica. Grade and environmental differences in reading interests were determined by the use of a 2x3 chi-square test.

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The Effect of Science Teaching on the Trinidadian Fifth Grade Child's Concept of Piagetian Physical Causality

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This study investigated the effect of science experiences on the fifth-grade Trinidadian child's concept of Piagetian physical causality. The sample comprised 835 children from 37 schools. The tests used were the Concept Assessment Kit—Conservation Forms A & B, the Metropolitan Achievement Test, Form C, and two clinical interviews which assessed the child's concepts of living and floating. The experimental group scored significantly higher than the control group.

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Reading Acquisition: A Cognitive Perspective

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SKU: CJE-10-1-4

Current practice in the teaching of reading and the diagnosis of reading difficulties in the Eastern Caribbean tends to focus on the content and methodology of reading. That is, our focus tends to be on better materials, more appropriately sequenced instructional programmes (with content usually taken as given), or on improved teacher methodologies. Quite clearly these are important and relevant variables in the teaching of reading. The problem is that such a conceptual framework ties us to a fixed perspective of reading instruction especially at the beginning reading stage.

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