A total of 204 participants were taken from second year secondary schoolchildren (51.47% girls) with a mean age of 12.48 years (SD = 1.48).
Available online at http://healingearth.ijep.net/, the textbook is intended for fourth-year secondary school students, first-year university students, adult learners, and independent learners worldwide.
This research uses metaphor and the PASS theory of intelligence to improve planning capacity and executive functions in first-year secondary education students.
And I've been sighing ever since I began my 36 year teaching career in 1968 and discovered to my horror that my first year secondary pupils couldn't read 'The dog got wet and Tom had to rub him dry,' write a sentence or give change from a ten shilling note (yes, that's how long ago it was) for an item costing five shillings.
Further discussions within the Ministries of Health, Education and Sport confirmed their continued support for a nationwide implementation of the programme to all first-year secondary school children.
Annex 3 (left) gives examples, in various fields of mathematics, of the problems presented under the items A, B, C, and D. The degree of difficulty of the problems was below the average competency of a fifth year secondary student.
The following sections discuss these topics in the context of delivering the '11 for Health' programme to ∼400 first-year secondary school children during a pilot study followed by the national implementation involving ∼17 000 children.
A pilot project involving ∼400 first-year secondary school children at 11 schools was implemented initially in order (1) to assess the efficacy of the programme in Mauritius, (2) to identify the local implementation issues and (3) to determine the organisational and resource requirements needed for delivering the '11 for Health' programme nationally in Mauritius.
Part of the school, known as "Phase One", opened in September 1975, with 150 first-year pupils, and 70 second-year pupils (from Radcliffe County Secondary School).
In my school, pupils start their third year of secondary school with a trip to Sarajevo.
The sample consisted of 327 pre-university-tracked pupils in their first year of secondary school.
