Many students all over the world both in developed and developing countries are reported to becoming increasingly disengaged with school science. Still it is clearly not known what would make science interesting to students ...

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 ...

Multigrade teaching is defined s teaching to more than one grade simultaneously by a single teacher during a given timetabled period. Prevalence of multigrade teaching in Sri Lanka has not been recognized by educational ...

One-teacher and two teacher schools are two categories highlighted by the School Census data of the Ministry of Education on an annual basis. Such schools have been existing in the system for too long without being attended ...

The need for diagnostic testing and remedial education in primary classroom teaching and learning have been emphasised by educationists since a long time. However, the support that has been extended to teachers in Sri Lanka ...

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 ...

This paper focuses on the problem of out of school children in Sri Lankan state schools.. It tries to investigate the magnitude of this problem in the Sri Lankan context and also looks at the international scenario. Though ...

This study investigated the long-term psychosocial effects after the three years of tsunami exposure, i.e. post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and educational and social relationship difficulties. To facilitate ...