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Impact and Capability of Facebook as a Teaching Aid in Social Science Subject at UNITEN

Rahman, Noor Azam bin Abdul; Amin, Noraziah binti Mohd - In: International Journal of Asian Social Science 4 (2014) 2, pp. 326-333

that Facebook was able to produce a positive effect on teaching and learning of a Social Science subject, Malaysian Studies. … and learning process. With the availability of various electronic devices that can connect to the internet, communication … bridging the gap between students and their lecturers, which this in turn gives rise to some positive effect on the teaching …

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Employer voices, employer demands, and implications for public skills development policy

Cunningham, Wendy; Villasenor, Paula - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Educators believe that they are adequately preparing youth for the labor market while employers lament the lack of skills. A possible source of the mismatch in perceptions is that employers and educators have different understandings of the types of skills valued in the labor market. This paper...

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Kyrgyz Republic Public Expenditure Review Policy Notes : Education

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2014

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School autonomy and accountability in Thailand: a systems approach for assessing policy intent and implementation

Arcia, Gustavo; MacDonald, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

There is a consensus on the need for Thailand to reform its education system to be able to compete with other high performing countries in the region. In terms of learning outcomes, the most recent evidence from the Programme for International Student Assessment shows little improvement over...

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Great Teachers : How to Raise Student Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean--Overview

Bruns, Barbara; Luque, Javier - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

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Comparable estimates of returns to schooling around the world

Montenegro, Claudio E.; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Rates of return to investments in schooling have been estimated since the late 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several attempts to synthesize the empirical results to ascertain patterns. This paper presents comparable estimates, as well as a database, that...

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Cost-effectiveness measurement in development : accounting for local costs and noisy impacts

Evans, David K.; Popova, Anna - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

As evidence from rigorous impact evaluations grows in development, there have been more calls to complement impact evaluation analysis with cost analysis, so that policy makers can make investment decisions based on costs as well as impacts. This paper discusses important considerations for...

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Female labor participation in the Arab world : some evidence from panel data in Morocco

Verme, Paolo; Barry, Abdoul Gadiry; Guennouni, Jamal - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Female labor participation in the Arab world is low compared with the level of economic development of Arab countries. Beyond anecdotal evidence and cross-country studies, there is little evidence on what could explain this phenomenon. This paper uses the richest set of panel data available for...

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Nash equilibria of games when players'preferences are quasi-transitive

Basu, Kaushik; Pattanaik, Prasanta K. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Much of game theory is founded on the assumption that individual players are endowed with preferences that can be represented by a real-valued utility function. However, in reality human preferences are often not transitive. This is especially true for the indifference relation, which can lead...

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The permanent input hypothesis : the case of textbooks and (no) student learning in Sierra Leone

Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Evans, David K.; Marshak, Anastasia - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

A textbook provision program in Sierra Leone demonstrates how volatility in the flow of government-provided learning inputs to schools can induce storage of these inputs by school administrators to smooth future consumption. This process in turn leads to low current utilization of inputs for...

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