This study investigates differences in the quality of primary education offered by five different school types. 6927, Grade 7 pupils who wrote national examinations in 86 schools in November 1990, their teachers and heads ...

This paper presents results from a survey of secondary school teachers in government schools, church schools, and rural day schools about teacher variables that have a positive effect on student achievement. The evidence ...

The purpose of this study was to determine statistical differences in levels of student performance in ZlC English and Mathematics between six secondary school types in Zimbabwe. 5293 Form 2 students who wrote ZlC ...

Zimbabwe stands at a special moment in its history. In 2001 the nation comes of age, celebrating 2l years of independence. That same moment in history will be the beginning of the Third Millennium. This heralds a new ...

This article discusses Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions as an attempt in the feminist tradition. It begins by examining the meanings of the words 'gender" 'female', 'feminist' and 'feminine' and then goes on to ...

This alticle discusses evidence of students' performance in responding to comprehension questions on expository passages and non-mathematical documents (performance on the narrative passages and the majority of the ...

This article discusses the problems of teaching poetry in Zimbabwean secondary schools. It is based on a survey of teachers of English done in 1988. Their answers to questions asked do confirm that poetry teaching is ...