For many years, researchers in the field of education have expressed divergent opinions about which school factors influence achievement. According to Duthilleul and Allen (2005), this debate was started in the US after Coleman et al., (1966) analyzed data from about 600,000 students and 60,000 teachers in more than 4,000 schools and, in their report entitled Equality of Educational Opportunity, concluded that only about 10 percent of the variance in student achievement could be explained by school factors.[...] Read more
On 05/09/20
Education is geared towards the holistic development of a person. It aims at developing the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective modes of human development right from the Pre-school stage through to the Tertiary level of education. This enables pupils/students to think properly with the head, act with the hand and feel with the heart.[...] Read more