This study sought to find out if there was a meaningful relationship between the primary school science curriculum and the secondary school science curriculum in Masvingo District in Zimbabwe. The research design was a ...

This paper summarizes findings of a study which explored the relationship between science teachers’ orientation to traditional culture and their conceptions of the nature of science, science-technology related societal ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes held by pre-service chemistry student teachers. A survey was conducted on Egerton University students in the 2002/2003 academic year. The sample included all the ...

Knowledge about cell structure is vital in students' understanding of cell functions. It also plays a central role in their understanding of structure and function in organisms. This research is part of a bigger survey ...

Knowledge of the existing situation and of current practices is fundamental to human resources development and training programmes. This article reports on a situation analysis to explore the structural problems, teaching ...

Scientists, and medical men are scientists, have been attacked for the poor quality of their writing, and yet, as Professor Kapp (1950) remarked at a meeting of the British Association a few years ago, during the past half ...

Three forms of medical writing are of special importance, because each may be written by any doctor—teacher, consultant or general practitioner. They are (1) the report of research; (2) the case report; and (3) the M.D. ...

The word science is derived from the Latin scientia, which means knowledge. There are many compartments of science such as moral, political and natural, but the word “science” in its modern sense means an organised body ...

A biochemist has been defined as someone who ‘talks of Chemistry to Biologists, of Biology to Chemists, and of women to other Biochemists’. However, nowadays there are many of the fair sex among the members of our profession ...

This paper gives a critical analysis of the ‘0’ level mathematics syllabus for Zimbabwe. It argues that the present syllabus does not provide a balance between intuitive thinking and analytical thinking in Mathematics. It ...