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In the context of Trinidad and Tobago, How do we identify schools that are succeeding or failing amidst exceptionally challenging circumstances?
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008)
The understanding that some schools face uniquely challenging circumstances represents a groundswell of new research in school improvement and education reform policy. Traditional school improvement theory does not account ...
The importance of learning foreign languages in Trinidad and Tobago
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008)
By learning a foreign language, students are exposed to a new and exciting world and get close to other people and to cultures that possess different systems for explaining and understanding world phenomena. This experience ...
Collaborating to reform science education in context: Issues, challenges, and benefits
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008)
Within recent times, the call for collaboration among stakeholders in education is made with increasing frequency. In current thinking, community building and collaboration are posited as critical elements in school reform. ...
Reconceptualizing vocational education and training (VET) in Caribbean schooling
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008)
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) has had an uneven history in secondary education in the Caribbean, which is no different from the experiences of many developing and emergent countries. Many problems ...
A factor analytic study of subject choice among a sixth form sample of Jamaican students, with particular reference to the natural sciences
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008)
This study aims to explore the underlying factor structure among the variables associated with subject choice-sciences or non-sciences-in a selected group of sixth form students in traditional high schools in Jamaica. ...
Graduate studies in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in the Caribbean - Whose responsibility?
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008)
The landscape of tertiary level education in the Caribbean has changed significantly during the last decade as a result of the recognition by governments that in order to survive in this ever-changing technological global ...
Teachers' professional growth: Examining the effect of teacher maturity on LOC orientation
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008)
This research compared the professional growth of Jamaican teachers with those in the United States and Israel. The high correlation (r = 0.845) between age and length of service allowed for two studies to be replicated; ...