Since the South African government decided in 1997 to replace traditional education with outcomes-based education, curriculum transformation has as yet for various reasons not realised in the Physical Sciences classroom, thus resulting in poor marks in Physical Sciences. This study was prompted by the above realities and the fact that education reform in South Africa cannot occur in isolation from globalisation and the demands of 21st-century teaching-and-learning. The overarching aim of the study thus was to propose guidelines for an ICT-integrated approach to teaching and for a learning environment that can lead to the successful implementation of the Physical Sciences curriculum in the classroom. In order to achieve this aim, the research had, on the one hand, to focus on those aspects against which successful curriculum implementation can be measured and, on the other, be directed at the contribution which the use of digital technology could make in curriculum implementation. The above led to a comprehensive literature study during which Physical Sciences curriculum documents and other teaching-and-learning literature were investigated within the context of UGO, constructivism as well as effective principles of learning. Ultimately eleven so-called âimplementation principlesâ were identified (see 2.7.1). Thereafter it was established how different ICT usages can be practically and feasibly used in order to contribute to the realisation of the implementation principles in the Physical Sciences classroom. Due to the fact that todayâs learners belong to the Y generation, with their unique needs, as well as the fact that over 80% of all South African learners are taught Science in a language that is not their home language (see 1.2.2.2), much attention was paid to these aspects in this study. A quantitative research design was used and data were collected by means of a questionnaire, as measuring instrument. Although multi-choice and binary-type questions were also used, the questionnaire mainly consisted of five-point Likert-type questions (see 4.10). The questions in the various sections of the questionnaire dealt with âdaily ICT applicationsâ, learnersâ home environment, language of teaching-andlearning, the availability and use of ICT in the school environment, learnersâ experience of the ICT Laboratory (see 1.2.3) as learning environment as well as their experience of ICT applications in the Laboratory. The test sample consisted of 110 Physical Sciences learners who visited the ICT Laboratory regularly. The Statistical Processing unit of the ICT services at the University of the Free State processed the questionnaires by means of the SPSS computer package. The information gleaned from the literature study as well as the empirical research enabled the researcher, from a didactical perspective, to propose guidelines for an e- Education-based approach to the implementation of the National Curriculum Statement for Physical Sciences (see 6.4). The study emphasises the essential role of the teacher in identifying suitable ICT applications that can be used to the benefit of teaching-and-learning within a 21stcentury learning environment and in service of the implementation of a Physical Sciences curriculum.

<p> One of the most pressing concerns that universities and colleges face today is the drug and alcohol abuse of students. In order to address this, there is a need to strengthen university policies in order to mitigate the increasing rate and cases of drug and alcohol abuse among students. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between college students&rsquo; level of awareness of policy, procedure, and interventions on drug and alcohol abuse and their reported drug alcohol use in a selected university. Specifically, this study examined how aware 160 first- to fourth-year college students are regarding the drug and alcohol policies, procedures, and interventions implemented on their college campus. The researcher asked 14 research questions to determine the relationships between students&rsquo; reported alcohol and drug use and factors including: awareness of alcohol drug policies and procedures, year level in college, age, ethnic group, marital status, gender, current residence, working status, living arrangement, cumulative GPA, the availability of drugs and alcohol at college parties, student enrollment status, family history of alcohol, and time spent volunteering per month. The researcher administered the Core Alcohol and Drug Survey (CADS) to measure these variables. The results indicated that the factors that had a significant relationship with alcohol and drug use were the awareness of campus policies, marital status, availability of drugs and alcohol at parties, student status, and hours spent volunteering. The rest of the variables did not have a significant relationship to the students&rsquo; alcohol and drug use. These results will contribute to more effective alcohol and drug prevention and treatment programs for students that address these significant factors. </p>

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Tulsa, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-48).

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Mississippi State University. Department of Curriculum and Instruction. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2018-03-21T12:46:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RAFAEL DA NOVA FAVARIN.pdf: 5173693 bytes, checksum: 6528cc2d073f4de76b163bb14025a8bb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-21T12:46:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RAFAEL DA NOVA FAVARIN.pdf: 5173693 bytes, checksum: 6528cc2d073f4de76b163bb14025a8bb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-06 / Capes / This research had as objective to investigate the dimension that the school complaint assumes in the work of the pedagogical coordinator and to reflect on the possible referrals to its overcoming. It was motivated by the growing production of referrals, made by the schools, to the school psychology service requesting help to the students. From a critical perspective, the theoretical framework of Historical-Cultural Psychology was adopted, whose methodology based on historical-dialectical materialism made possible the deepening and analysis of the expressions of the pedagogical coordinators. The central axis of this work, through an intervention research, was a training project of the pedagogical coordinators in an interior city of S?o Paulo, Brazil, based on the demand of the Department Education. The meetings were conducted by a pair of school psychologists, crossed and mediated by artistic productions contextualized to the themes, by the syntheses that described the previous encounter, by debates and theoretical support texts. For the analysis, were consulted the transcripts of the meetings, the field journals, the syntheses produced, the observations during the process and the final interviews with five pedagogical coordinators. The results revealed that the school complaint plays a second role to the student in the face of the conflicts that underlie the school and the pedagogical coordinator, among them: the identity crisis of its role; the lack of support, permanence in the function and political-social representativeness; difficulty with the teaching staff, where there are problems regarding the engagement in the teaching-learning process and a work focused on the urgencies to the detriment of the real needs, especially neglecting the formation and the articulation of the school processes. Nevertheless, it was observed that the point of view of the pedagogical coordinators and also the school as a whole, about the school difficulties, remain under the logic of the medicalization and the absent of a critical thinking about the production of problems within the school itself. Finally, we understand that formative meetings with the pedagogical coordinators, leaders of the Political Pedagogical Project and the formation of teachers in the school, can constitute as field and object of action of the school psychologist in the promotion of changes of conceptions and practices aimed at the promotion of development of children, youth and adults - educators. / Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar a dimens?o que a queixa escolar assume no trabalho do coordenador pedag?gico e refletir sobre os poss?veis encaminhamentos ? sua supera??o. Foi motivada pela crescente produ??o de encaminhamentos, realizados pelas escolas, para o servi?o de psicologia escolar solicitando ajuda aos alunos. Sob o prisma de uma perspectiva cr?tica, adotou-se o referencial te?rico da Psicologia Hist?rico-Cultural cuja metodologia, calcada no materialismo hist?rico-dial?tico, possibilitou o aprofundamento e an?lise das express?es dos coordenadores. O eixo central deste trabalho, por interm?dio de uma pesquisa-interven??o, foi um projeto de forma??o dos coordenadores pedag?gicos de uma cidade do interior de S?o Paulo, a partir da demanda de sua Secretaria de Educa??o. Os encontros foram conduzidos por uma dupla de psic?logos escolares, atravessados e mediados por produ??es art?sticas contextualizadas aos temas, pelas s?nteses que descreviam o encontro anterior, por debates e textos te?ricos de apoio. Para an?lise, foram utilizadas as transcri??es dos encontros, os registros dos di?rios de campo, as s?nteses produzidas, as observa??es vivenciadas durante o processo e as entrevistas finais com cinco coordenadoras. Os resultados revelaram que a queixa escolar permanece secund?ria ao aluno diante dos conflitos subjacentes ? escola e ao pr?prio coordenador pedag?gico, entre eles: a crise identit?ria de seu papel; a falta de apoio, perman?ncia na fun??o e representatividade pol?tico-social; dificuldade junto ao corpo docente, em que pesem problemas quanto ao engajamento no processo de ensino-aprendizagem e um trabalho voltado ?s urg?ncias em detrimento das reais necessidades, sobretudo negligenciando a forma??o e a articula??o dos processos escolares. Contudo, observou-se que a vis?o dos coordenadores pedag?gicos e da escola como um todo, sobre as dificuldades escolares, permanecem sob a l?gica da medicaliza??o e ausente de um pensamento cr?tico sobre a produ??o dos problemas no interior da pr?pria escola. Por fim, compreendemos que encontros formativos com os coordenadores pedag?gicos, l?deres do Projeto Pol?tico Pedag?gico e da forma??o de professores na escola, podem se constituir como campo e objeto de atua??o do psic?logo escolar na promo??o de mudan?as de concep??es e pr?ticas voltadas ? promo??o do desenvolvimento de crian?as, jovens e adultos - educadores.