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Since 2000 the performance of pupils in French composition has been deteriorating. Research by Habimana (2010) revealed that the pupils who were studying French were finding composition writing most difficult among the four components of the French paper. The Examination council of Zambia‘s...

Motivation is a fundamental factor that reinforces and regulates the learners’ interest to engage in learning. However, motivation of the learners in a classroom has different perceptions from both teachers’ and pupils’ perspective. Although there is a general view that a teacher is the source of...

The study was conducted in Petauke district, which lies in the Eastern Province of Zambia. The study investigated teachers’ questioning practices in mathematics at Grade 11 level in four selected secondary schools and used the findings to inform mathematics teachers. Although questioning is a...

The study sought to evaluate the impact of the Reading Rooms on literacy development among basic school pupils. It targeted pupils from rural schools of Chongwe District, Lusaka Province. A sample of 210 respondents comprising of 4 Ministry of Education officials, 12 Head teachers, 4 librarians,...

The study investigated the influence of broken homes on pupil academic performance in selected schools of Mbala District. The study aimed at determining the extent to which broken homes influenced the performance of pupils in schools. A case study design was used which combined qualitative and...

Examiners absenteeism and negative job attitude are a major problem confronting the Examinations Council of Zambia. Over the years, the Examinations Council of Zambia (ECZ) has progressively experienced a low turnout of trained examiners during marking sessions. The Council considers the wealth...

This study investigated the provision of science teaching and learning materials in the high schools of Northern Province. The specific objectives of the study were to identify the current practices in the provision of teaching and learning materials in high schools; to assess the adequacy and...

From the onset of formal education, the church has been government’s partner in the provision and fostering of literacy. Zambia is constitutionally and demographically a Christian nation. The Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church was selected for this study because it is a protestant denomination...

There have been heated controversies on the definition and construction of teaching as a profession. The trait model school of thought presents a list of defining features of trait that every occupation ought to possess in order to be classified as a profession, but it ignores the social actors’...

The purpose of the study was to compare the performance between urban and rural Grade 9 school pupils in the Junior Secondary School Leaving Examinations in basic schools in Senanga District.Two objectives guided the study namely, to establish if there was any difference in performance between...