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Factors Affecting the Implementation of Formative Assessment in Some Selected Primary Schools in Nekemte Town, Oromia Region, Ethiopia-Juniper Publishers

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     Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Introduction Quality assessment is a very essential element in the provision of quality education. This is because assessment provides a foundation for making sound evaluative judgments about students’ learning progress and about the effectiveness of the whole education system in general [1,2]. It is a general term that includes the full range of procedures used to gain information about students’ learning and the information of value judgment concerning learning progress [3]. According to them, assessment is systematic processes that plays a significant role in effective teaching and begins with the identification of learning goals have been attained. Airasian [4] has also defined assessment as a process of collecting, interpreting and synthesizing information in decision making. From the ideas stated above, one can infer that instruction requires formative assessment of students’ progress as to b...

Cognition: from Physiology to Sociology and Back-Juniper Publishers

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    Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Opinion The recent literature on cognition shows that different disciplines, from biology to psychology, addressing the unsettled problem of information processing, are converging towards a widely shared conjecture: intelligence is the result of a process of self-organization. Interdisciplinary unification is expected to lead to a mathematical model establishing a bridge between life evolution and sociology. Preliminary results show that genuinely spontaneous organization generates intelligent crucial events, namely changes of flying direction adapting the self-organizing society to the environment. Moving from biology to cultural anthropology makes us realize that the organization process may be affected by cognition killing top-down influences. The lack of intelligence has the effect of generating organization collapses. All this suggests that the most benecial forms of management are horizontal rather...

Work Related Stress: A Literature Review-Juniper Publishers

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  Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Definition of Occupational Stress As per distinctive investigations the thought of stress has been anticipated and shown with various qualities. According to the definition from one scholastic from the long history, stress could be described as “the non-specific response of the body to any demand placed upon it” (Selye, 1987, p.17).Following the literature in the near histories; the term of stress has been recreated in the form of a term which could be used to describe a force that results in or else causing for the deformation and meanwhile the response to the stress now could be possibly described as the strain referring to the manifestation in a body Le Fevre et al. (2003). The concept of stress is always accompanied by several notions such as performance, motivation and as well as the employee wellbeing when referring to anorganization. As described in many research articles on employee stress levels, it is...