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Educational Survey: Bullying and Academic Performance

Educational Survey: Bullying and Academic Performance Introduction       It is greatly important to explore the relationship of bullying and academic performance using survey methodology. Fraenkel & Wallen(2005) stated that the major purpose of surveys is to describe the characteristics of a population. There are two types of survey that includes the cross sectional   survey and longitudinal survey. In the real world cross sectional survey gathers information from a sample that has been collected from a predetermine population.   While longitudinal survey focuses its method of information collection on different location over a period of time.   Causes of Bullying            Bullying has been a social menace and that occurs in many places that includes school, hospital and workplace. Olweus (1993) stated that bullying is broadly defined as a class of international and repeated act...

Corporate Performance: System Testing and Role of Software Tester

Corporate Performance: System Testing and Role of Software Tester        Every organization strives for excellence and the only way to achieve this is to offer quality products and services to satisfy customers. Software testing is an important aspect of software development life cycle (SDLC). Software tester has the ethical obligation to ensure that products are in good standard before launching it to market.   There are two major type of testing:              Black Box Testing- Manual Testing              White Box Testing- Unit Testing.               One of the major tasks of software tester is to create test cases and the observation from the test cases determines the validity and functionality of the software. The result of each test case conducted by tester mus...

Corporate Performance in Education: Research Instrument

Research Instrument: An Effective Tool To Validate Research Study Introduction                    The definite procedure for data collection is by using research instrument and it can be deployed in all areas of life that includes education, mining, health-care, and marketing.”Instruments can be used to measure past behaviors (Concurrent validity), and future behaviors (Predictive validity). (Howard, 1998).The process of investigating past and future event has greatly helped researchers to predict future occurrence of an event. This paper will focus on the guidelines on the use research instrument, characteristics of research instrument, types of research instrument and the origin of research instrument and validation of research study. The Guideline on the Use of Research Instrument              Certain criteria have to be met in order to per...

Corporate Performance in Education: Educational Research and Academic Performance

Educational Research: Student Academic Performance in the University Introduction          Educational Research has been a great concept that enables educational researchers to develop necessary methodologies and skills to improve level of education around the world. Educational researchers strive very hard to solve problem facing deplorable education system around the world and that is the major reason the government of the United States make it a mandatory to invest more resources in the early education.”The federal government eventually began discussing and debating for education reform and No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was finally passed and signed by President George W.Bush (Rulloda, 2011, p.2).Children are our future and the necessities to invest in them will help them to face future challenges in the global economy and higher institutions.   Role of Educational Research        ...

Corporate performance in Education: The Impact of Experimental Research on Student Lateness

The Impact of Experimental Research on Student Lateness Introduction Experimental research is an investigative tool to determine the impacts of independent variable on dependable variable. Fraenken & Wallen (2009) states that experimental research helps researchers to go beyond description and prediction beyond the identification of relationship to at least a particular determination of what causes them. Experimental research develops cause-effect relationship between variables. It is carried out under controlled environment and it is a great tool to develop strong evidence or facts for causal impacts on variable. One of the major roles of experimental research is to manipulate independent variable. An educational research changes the value of independent variable in a structural manner that will influence the dependable variable. Causes of Lateness The study of experimental research investigates the cause of student lateness and it can be considered as independe...