Based on students' experience, the number of learning activities was classified into 1-4 items, 5-7 items, or 8-11 items.
The higher education sector in South Africa is supported by a government that allocates government subsidy to universities based on their student numbers as well as their academic output which includes the number of post graduates and publications.
Instead, we provide a lower-bound to the response rate by school based on actual student numbers at each of the 31 participating schools at the time of the study and the number of respondents from each of the 31 schools: overall response rate was 5.87% (range=0.10 27.11%; SD=5.82).
The lower bound of the response rate by school was therefore calculated, based on actual student numbers at the 40 schools at the time of the study: overall response rate was 7.75% (range=0.75 29.12%; SD=7.16).
Within each class, simple random sampling was used to select the participants based on the student registration numbers obtained from the institutions' heads.
Based on numbers of students expected to graduate, the need for more staff as numbers of students increase and the current recruitment rate of the postgraduate programme, we attempted to estimate when a typical clinical department would have senior staff consisting only of Malawians.
To address this, I determined a percent-attendance grade for each student based on the number of lectures each student attended out of the eight lectures in which exam 2 material was covered, and performed correlation analysis between the exam 2 grades and percent attendance.
Almost all of the federal government's $150 billion in annual student aid is distributed based on the number of students a college enrolls, regardless of how many graduate or how much debt they incur.
A total of 30 high schools were randomly selected from the 237 full-time ordinary high schools registered in Shanghai, and 100 students with age various from 16 to 18 were chosen from each school using a random selection method based on the students' identification numbers to complete the survey questionnaire.
