Psychology

The purpose of this study is to identify the level, the type, and the factors of bullying amongst religious secondary school’s students. This study also attempts to identify bullying intervention programs at religious secondary school. 400 students in four states, Kelantan, Terengganu, Malacca and Johore have been chosen as the respondents. The instrument of this study is questionnaire form. Method used in this study is surveying method. The sampling has been done using the cluster on cluster random sampling method. The reliability of the instrument is 0.8234. The data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science. (SPSS) for Windows. Descriptive statistic, mean and frequency is used to analyze the level of bullying. The inference statistic, t-test and Pearson correlation are used to test the hypothesis. Results showed that the level of bullying among religious secondary school’s students were in medium level. The results also showed that there were significant relation between the bullying behavior and gender there was no significant relation between the type of bullying and gender. Furthermore, there were no significant relation between intervention programs and bullying behavior. The most dominant bullying factor was family factor.

Understanding in mathematics is mainly concerned with building up connections between mathematical concepts. Literature reveals if we are succeeded in embedding one mathematical concept into another then this lead to better understanding in mathematics. In pursuance of this idea twenty pre-lectures were prepared from grade 10th level mathematics textbook keeping in view the predictions of information processing model. In each pre-lecture efforts were made to build up connections between the previous, existing and coming mathematical concepts. To find out the effectiveness of pre-lectures and to in-depth the students concepts twenty post-tests were prepared keeping in view Blooms’ taxonomy. The subjects of this study consisted of two secondary schools in Cantt/ Garrison setup Peshawar Pakistan. The whole sample (n=114) consisted of boys (n=78) and girls (n=36). The boys’ sample (n=78) further divided into with pre-lecture group (n=39) and without pre-lecture group (n=39). Similarly the girls’ sample further divided into with pre-lecture group (n= 18) and without pre-lecture group (n=18). The data collection was continued through out the whole academic session 2011-12. The data analysis was made by using t-test at 5% level of significance. The results revealed as whole the students with pre-lecture performed significantly better than the students without pre-lecture. The findings outlined that the use of pre-lecture strengthened mathematical connections, which further enhanced their understanding in mathematics.

The present paper reports the findings of a study on gender (sex) difference in the attitude of post-graduate male and female students towards motion pictures. A sample of 100 (Boys-50 and Girls-50) post-graduate students belonging to all SES categories was selected and comprised the subjects. A standardized film preference questionnaire was used to ascertain the gender (sex) difference in attitude towards motion pictures. Findings suggest that females posses more favourable attitude towards motion pictures than males. Again, females are talent and sympathetic towards changes where as males are more critical in their attitude towards motion pictures.

This study assessed laboratory planning skills of selected Junior High School Students in selected integrated science topics. In all 225 students from six intact classes from Cape Coast Junior High Schools students were randomly selected for the study. The students participated in planning task. Three of the intact classes were from public schools and three from private schools. The students were assessed on 7 skills on planning task. Thus each student was expected to exhibit 7 skills in the planning task. The independent t-test, means and percentages were used to analyze data. The results of the study showed that students of JHS from the private schools performed better on the planning task as compared with students of JHS from the public schools. As a result of these findings, it was recommended that hands-on activities in the laboratory should be given a second look on our curriculum. Hands-on activities need to be encouraged more in Junior High Schools in Cape Coast Metropolis.

Background of the study: As in a global village and English has been widely used in medical terminology, medical records and in professional communication, it’s quite essential to have good English ability for those people standing in the front line of healthcare, in particular, the nurses. Objective: The present study was aimed to assess the level of anxiety related to English Anxiety among GNM students. Methodology: A descriptive research design was used for the present study. A total of 200 students were selected by using Complete Enumeration sampling technique. A modified tool on Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) was used to collect data. Results: The results of the present study revealed that most of the students reported moderate English Language Anxiety especially in writing English. Further, both boys and girls had shown moderate English Language Anxiety and the level of anxiety was found to be higher among girls than boys. The level of anxiety in five components (Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing and Grammar) was same among all the students of 1st Year, level of English Language Anxiety in Listening component was higher among girls than boys studying in 2nd year, level of English Language anxiety in reading as well as grammar component was higher among girls than boys studying in 3rd year and level of English Language anxiety in Listening component was higher among girls and level of English Language Anxiety was higher in writing component among boys studying in GNM Internship. Conclusion: Teachers should have learning activities where these students are given more guidance on how to talk or write about themselves, their family, their interests and their culture. In addition, teachers should also try to create a non-threatening, relaxed learning environment in which students can take risks and make mistakes without fear or embarrassment. In addition, teachers must make a conscious effort to ensure that these students must have the opportunity to participate in class. Key words: Anxiety, English language, FLCAS, English language anxiety.

Despite the increasing attention of organizational commitment in the management literature, most studies predominantly focus on full-time workers in traditional work settings. The results of this study highlight important directions for implementing strategies to increase casual academic’s organizational commitment. Organization commitment is important because it is known association with other important organizational variables such as turnover, absenteeism and work effort. This study provides the first step in better understanding the factors that affect the organization commitment

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of different teaching pedagogies used by teachers in context of higher education as effective teaching is reflected by effective learning among students. A total of 100 students (20 students in each group, thereby making five groups) in the age range of (18-20 years) studying Humanities stream from colleges of Chandigarh were chosen as sample for the present study. Students were taught the same topic but with different teaching pedagogies. Their opinion and reasoning regarding teaching methods, its effectiveness and understanding were noted down and teacher’s evaluation in terms of achievement test from five groups of students was prepared. Keeping in mind, both important parameters i.e. student’s perception regarding the most effective teaching method and correspondingly an evaluation from the teacher was taken into consideration.The results revealed multimedia method as the most effective where as case study as the least effective method of teaching.

Knowledge management is a process that helps organizations to find important information, select, organize and publish them; and it’s a proficiency that will be necessary for actions like solving problems, dynamic learning, decision making. Knowledge management can improve a wide range of organization performance properties by enabling company to more intelligent performance, but it’s not enough alone; because knowledge management to be useful needs undertaking staff to organization and their job, that accept the knowledge management process with spirit and heart and perform it (Wiig,1999:14). With considering the importance of this topic, the current discussion will study the relation between knowledge management and professional commitment of staff at a petroleum company in the south of Iran. Formation of this study was based on this question that with considering the importance of professional commitment and organizational commitment of staff, what the relation between knowledge management and professional commitment and organizational commitment of staff is. The tools of data collection in order to knowledge management evaluation is the 21 questions questionnaire of Proset et al., to evaluation of professional commitment and organizational commitment, that’s combination and native 27 questions questionnaire of Allen and Meyer et al.; the stability of professional commitment and organizational commitment obtained 83% and the stability of knowledge management evaluation was 0.87 and because of being Kronbakh alpha of questionnaires both more than 0.7, both questionnaires had obligatory stability. To determine being normal, the data obtained of Colmogroph-Smirnoph was applied and confirmed the results of being normal test. Hypothesizes of the study were examined by performing of Spearman correlation test and their significant and positive effects were proved, this means that knowledge management totally has a direct and significant relation with organizational commitment and professional commitment.

In this paper Bessel type differential operator and an n-dimensional pseudo-differential type operator involving the n-dimensional Hankel type transformation is defined. The symbol class is introduced. It is shown that pseudo-differential type operators associated with symbols belonging to this class are continuous linear mappings of the n-dimensional Zemanian space into itself. An integral representation for the pseudo-differential operator is obtained. By using the Hankel type convolution, it is shown that the pseudo-differential type operator satisfies a certain norm inequality.

Institutional counsellors, like all mental health professionals are at a high risk of suffering burnout. High caseloads and job role ambiguity increase their propensity for burnout. The purpose of this study was to establish counsellor burnout levels in public and in private universities in Uasin Gishu County. The target population comprised of counsellors from all public and private universities in Uasin Gishu County. The Maslach Burnout Inventory Questionnaire (MBIQ) was used to collect data. The study established that burnout levels among counsellors in the public universities were found to be higher than in the private universities. The caseloads handled by counsellors in public universities were generally higher than those of their counterparts in private universities due to the student-counsellor ratio in public universities which was higher than the recommended ratio. Counsellor Training Institutions (CTI) should incorporate burnout theoretical knowledge in the counsellor training curriculum. The findings are significant to the management of universities and other learning institutions in formulating policies on student-counsellor ratio. Key words: Counsellor, Burnout, Burnout levels, Public University, Private University