Schools In Peru Research Articles

Sense of belonging and transition to high schools in Peru

Sense of belonging is the degree to which students feel integrated with their peers and teachers at school. This study describes sense of belonging among Peruvian students entering high school. Socioeconomic status had no direct effect on sense of belonging but had an indirect effect through achievement. Rural students had a higher sense of belonging than their urban peers. This is likely due to rural children seeing the larger, better equipped high schools as improvements over their relatively small and more isolated primary schools. Some general orientation activities were organized by teachers and principals aimed at all incoming first graders but nothing was designed specifically for students who might face difficulties in adjusting to high school.

The Influence of Personality Domains and Working Experience in Peruvian Managers Leadership Styles: An Initial Study

The purpose of this quantitative investigation is to examine the relationships that may exist among the five personality domains, working experience, and the three leadership styles in a sample of 500 managerial Master of Business Administration (MBA) students of a leading business school in Peru. Similar studies have previously been performed in developed countries; well-known examples come from the United States of America, Norway, Germany, Australia, Canada, and Singapore, but no such studies are found in a developing country. The Neuroticism Extraversion Openness to Experience Personality Inventory Revised (NEO-PI-R) and Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) were the instruments used for personality and leadership, respectively. In this sample, conscientiousness demonstrates the strongest and most consistent correlation with transformational (.426 ), transactional (.43 0), and passive-avoidant (-.354 ) leadership styles. Extraversion has the next highest correlation with transformational (.400) leadership styles and a weak correlation with transactional (.152) and passive-avoidant (-.166) leadership styles. Agreeableness has no significant correlation with any of the leadership styles, and openness to experience shows a significant correlation only to transformational (.201) leadership styles. Neuroticism shows weak correlations with transformational (-.214 ) and passive-avoidant (.26 7) leadership styles. Conscientiousness and extraversion may encourage individuals to emerge as leaders. Transformational and transactional leadership behaviors are demonstrated more frequently with increasing working experience.

Dental education in Peru

This paper provides information about Peru's dental history and dental school system, including the curriculum and dental licensure. With the increase in the number of dental schools in Peru, the number of dentists is also increasing. Until 1965, Peru had only three dental schools; currently, there are 14. Four of these dental schools are public, and ten are private. A five- or six-year dental program leads to the B.D.S. degree. After successful completion of a thesis defense or competency examination, the D.D.S. degree is awarded. The D.D.S. is mandatory for practicing dentistry in Peru. Currently, there are approximately 14,000 active dentists, with a dentist-patient ratio of approximately 1:2,000.

Educational impact of a school breakfast programme in rural Peru

Abstract In this paper, we present data from an evaluation of the educational impact of a school breakfast programme implemented in rural schools in Peru. The results showed positive effects on school attendance and dropout rates, and a differential effect of the breakfast programme on multiple-grade and full-grade schools. Particularly in multiple-grade schools the programme shows a significant and positive effect on short-term memory, arithmetic and reading comprehension. The evaluation also showed an unexpected negative consequence: students in the breakfast group reduced their time in the classroom with their teachers and increased the time in recess (when they consumed the breakfast).

SCHOOL TYPOLOGY AND 3D DYNAMICS: STUDY OF THE BEHAVIOURAL MECHANISMS ALLOWING ADAPTATIONS OF COLLECTIVE STRUCTURE TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

Being the collective interface with the environment and the exploitation, schools and their typology represent an important life history trait of gregarious fish. Changes in the characteristics of the environment sensu largo induce changes in the school typology, which can be used as indicator of stock adaptive patterns. In order to understand the interactions between school structure and environment patterns, a first step consists in studying the school internal structure and the functioning of fish aggregation inside it and in its surroundings. The paper describes the spatial morphology and dynamics changes in Peruvian Anchovy (Engraulis ringens) schools in Peru using multibeam sonar observation on a station. Different cases of school types are extracted from a data base of around 200 recordings: from small circular well individualized schools to large aggregation surrounded by scattered targets. The internal structure of the aggregations is described at a 10 cm definition scale. The shape and dynamics of internal structures (nuclei) are described. The school edges are measured in shape and dynamics, and the relationship between the school and the fish surrounding the school are measured, using geostatistics and fractal dimensions approaches

The Effects of TV Materials in Distance-Learning in Secondary Schools in Peru

The Effects of TV Materials in Distance-Learning in Secondary Schools in Peru

The Social Demand for Education in Peru: Students' Choices and State Autonomy

Offering a general model for predicting the social demand for college education, human capital theory imputes students' aggregate costs and benefits to postsecondary study. This article questions the applicability of that model in the Third World. The author's study of 3,200 graduating secondary school students in 45 schools in Peru found that no one set of factors explains the decision to seek entrance to a university. Instead, the reasons for college going differ among groups, depending on gender, ethnicity, social class, and urban or rural residence. To the extent that this heterogeneity of choice occurs in other nations, the findings thus indicate a need to reappraise the utility of human capital theory for understanding social demand. The findings also suggest the inherent limits of any nation's ability to mold public demand through centralized state planning.

Latest trends in the teaching of english as a foreign language in Peru—The recurrence of 19th century methods due to economic restraints

The quality of EFL teaching in public secondary schools in Peru is so low that students after five years of English have not even mastered the very basics of that language. This situation has lead the Department of Education to plan to limit EFL teaching to the teaching of reading texts in English. Even though in the light of severely restricted economic resources this decision may be justified, it should be severely criticized because it is built on a more general reasoning, which will make any changes in the future difficult.