iosr-JRME   Volume-6 ~ Issue-3 ~ May-June 2016

Abstract: The present study investigates factors that might affect college students who are suspended or apply to withdraw from school in Taiwan based on the institute research database of KS University. The logistic regression method which, associated by information geometry, was conducted to analyze the data. This modified logistic regression method can efficiently reduce the number of factors and recognize significant factors. Results showed that the class attendance and the interaction of class attendance and academic performance were the factors that significantly affect college students who are suspended or apply to withdraw in Taiwan.

Keywords: Factors; Suspension; Withdrawal; Logistic regression model; Institutional research

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Abstract: Unemployment of a large proportion of Zimbabwe's urban youth, particularly those with secondary level education and above, is a major social and political challenge. Within the last three decades, Zimbabwean youth have been involved as the main force behind social unrest and violent insurgencies in the country on several occasions. Dissatisfaction and frustration of youth, especially educated urban youth, is therefore regarded as one of the major threats to social and political stability.........

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Abstract: This study investigated university teachers' knowledge of content and predictive validity of classroom tests. A sample of 89 teachers was randomly selected from five departments in the Faculty of Education of a university in Nigeria for the study. A 41-item Teachers' Validity Knowledge Questionnaire (TVK-Q) was developed and validated. The data collectedwere analysed using descriptive statistics, t-test and ANOVA techniques...........

Keywords: Validity, teachers' knowledge, classroom tests, evidence, university, Nigeria

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Abstract: The graduate teacher brings to the classroom experiences, beliefs, practices and theories to teaching. These beliefs might be congruent or at logger heads with the principles and beliefs of the teacher educator. Failure to communicate effectively between the post graduate student teacher and the teacher educator can lead to controversy. Mayer and Austin (1999) pointed out that helping student teachers to negotiate their own professional identities is central to the supervision process. Therefore there is a need for positive, personal and professional relationships between the teacher educator and student teacher, involving open and frank communication....

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