This study was launched in order to meet the academic requirement of the Master of Education Degree programme of the Faculty of Education at the University of Colombo. We have witnessed a revolution in assessment ...

Background of the study The Faculty of Education conducted a course in Sinhala medium for the Post Graduate Diploma in Education in 2008/09 for 1400 graduate teachers. Most of them were Government School teachers. The ...

At the culmination of the more than two decades of the secessionist conflict in Sri Lanka, understanding between the two main ethnic groups is imperative in building social cohesion. Since language is the vehicle through ...

Child right declaration has based on human right declaration. This document recover the mental physical and social competencies of children Preliminary task of the school is their learning to be. The school should provide ...

This paper presents the findings of the study conducted to construct and validate an Academic Self-Concept Scale for Sri Lankan Junior Secondary level school children. The Academic Self-Concept Scale is a multidimensional ...

Sri Lanka has made efforts to teach western scientific psychology in universities for several decades. However, there is no subject such as critical psychology taught in universities of the country. Although efforts are ...

Laptop computers are being increasingly used as a mediation artifact for informal peer group learning. However, since students often have informal peer group discussions at outside locations from the institute, they find ...

The study was conducted by the National Education Research and Evaluation Center (NEREC) of the Faculty of Education, University of Colombo. Objectives were: Capacity building of teacher educators to develop a diagnostic ...