Educational Research and Reviews

  • Abbreviation: Educ. Res. Rev.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1990-3839
  • DOI: 10.5897/ERR
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2008

Table of Content: 19 September 2011; 6(11)

September 2011

Evolution of elections management in Tanzania

  This paper provides a discussion on the evolution of elections management in Tanzania with a focus on technological advancement in administering registration of voters. The paper provides the merits that permanent voters register has brought over the thumb practice. It traces the management of elections during colonialism, after independence through 1990s but before reintroduction of multiparty democracy. The...

Author(s): A. S. Norman,, O. M. Mdegella and R. M. Lubawa

September 2011

The efficiency of cluster method in improving the creative writing skill of 6th grade students of primary school

  The aim of this research is to search the effect of the cluster method on the creative writing skill of 6th grade students. In this paper, the students of 6-A, studying at UlaÅŸ Primary School in 2010-2011 academic year, were divided into two groups as experiment and control. Taking into consideration the various variants, pre-test and last-test were applied at the beginning and at the final process....

Author(s): Namık Kemal Åžahbaz and Gözde Duran

September 2011

Pre-service mathematics teachers’ views on the use of portfolios in their education as an alternative assessment method

  The purpose of this study was to ascertain the views of pre-service mathematics (PSM) teachers on the use of portfolios as an alternative assessment method. This study was conducted with 146 Turkish PSM teachers participating in a semester-long portfolio assessment application. Data were collected with a questionnaire comprising 34 items on a 5-point Likert-type scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS 15.0...

Author(s): Osman Birgin