Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research

12-18

Authors: Anna Mortensen, T. F. McLaughlin, Jennifer Neyman, Barb Girshick

The purpose of this study was to teach a 4-year-old preschooler with developmental disabilities number quantity. Demonstrating an understanding in number quantity is a component part in the hierarchy of math in the public schools. A student must obtain this skill before moving on to a general education classroom kindergarten. This study was also carried out to support the math skills and the student’s transition to kindergarten in the following year. The model, lead, and test error correction strategy from direct instruction was paired with a reward to teach our participant number quality. A multiple baseline design across three groups of number was employed to evaluate our intervention. The overall results indicated increases in student performance during model, lead, and test with a reward.

27-36

Authors: Kaelin Albade, Hadeel Altharwa, T. F. McLaughlin, Jennifer Neyman, Lisa Rinaldi

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a model, lead, and test (MLT) error correction in conjunction with tracing and a fading procedures for teaching shape drawing to two students with developmental delays. Both of our participants were enrolled in a special education preschool classroom. A multiple baseline across shapes and participants was employed to evaluate of the effectiveness of our two intervention procedures. The results for the participants indicated that the use of MLT with the tracing and fading procedure was effective in producing the skill of drawing shapes. Data collection was very practical and easy to implement in a preschool classroom setting.

51-61

Authors: Sajjad Hussain, Dr. Farooq Ahmad , M. Shafique

Numerical solution is obtained for the flow over a stretchable disk with or without rotation. Similarity transformations are used to convert the highly non linear governing partial differential equations to their ordinary differential form. The transformed equations have been solved numerically, using SOR method and Simpson’s (1/3) rule. The numerical results have been improved by Richardson’s extrapolation. The velocity and pressure distributions have been obtained for various values of disk rotation parameter s. When s=0, the flow corresponds to purely stretchable disk and when s>0, the flow is related to a stretching and rotating disk.

75-88

Authors: Diana Mauladin

The purpose of this study is to see the impact of learning methods and environmental knowledge on the naturalistic intelligence of children aged 5-6 years. This research was carried out at Ar-Ridho Nature Kindergarten Semarang, with a total sample of 60 children. This study used an experimental method. The results of this study are as follows: (1) The naturalist intelligence groups of children who were given handson method of learning was higher than in children given storytelling learning methods, (2) the children's naturalist intelligence group given hands-on method of learning and who have a sound knowledge of the environment was higher than in the group of children given storytelling learning methods. (3) The naturalist intelligence of the group of children given storytelling learning method that have a low environmental knowledge was higher than in the group of children who were given hands-on learning methods. (4) There was an interaction between learning method and environmentally sound knowledge to the naturalist intelligence of children aged 5-6 years.

97-104

Authors: Shahid Qayyum, Amber Ayub, Tehmina Ikram Ullah, Fazeelat Naz

This study is archived for the acknowledgment of the socio-budgetary, social and demographic components influencing ripeness conduct. The universe for the present study comprised of provincial and urban ranges of Shiekhupura. In testing system 180 respondents were distinguished and gathered data keeping in perspective the fruitfulness conduct of the individuals, from provincial and urban ranges by utilizing advantageous examining method. An overall organized Interview Schedule was outlined and ready for assembling the information. The gathered data from the distinguished respondents was examined utilizing fitting factual procedures. In perspective of outcomes, it was distinguished a larger part of the respondents affirm that Pakistan populace is expanding quickly because of uninformed of the results whatsoever. Effects exhibit individuals have no significantly more consciousness seeing fruitfulness identified issues besides having much misconstruing in concern of that. A few respondents demonstrated that there is have to mindful the individuals for fruitfulness conduct for the best concern of family and nation. A few respondents who were in the support, recognized that they had not family arranging focuses in their general vicinity because of individuals demonstrated their carelessness in perspective of that. It was practically all the respondents had seen that family arranging is vital for maternal and youngster health, for the best investment of family and nation.

114-124

Authors: Nor’ain Mohd. Tajudin & Noraini Idris

Graphing calculators have become one of the most widely adopted technologies in mathematics education that have a powerful potential to help students master important mathematical concepts because they provide specific functionalities that are valuable for mathematics learning. The objective of this study is to compare the effect between the TI-Nspire CX graphing calculator (GC) strategy group and conventional instructional (CI) strategy group on students’ performance in learning Straight Lines and Statistics topics. This study employed the quasi-experimental nonequivalent control-group pretest posttest design. The samples of the study are two intact Form Four classes from four selected secondary schools in Perak and Selangor. For each school, one of the classes served as the experimental group (GC strategy group) while the other class served as the control group (CI strategy group). The total number of students in the sample is 96 in the control group and 111 in the experimental group.There are two instruments used in this study namely The Straight Lines and Statistics Achievement Tests to assess students’ performance on the Straight Lines and Statistics topics. Statistical inferences tests such as the independent t-test and ANCOVA were used to analyze the data. The results showed that students in the experimental group from all schools had significantly better scores in both tests than those from the control group. Integrating the use of TI-Nspire graphing calculators can be beneficial for students as this instructional strategy has proven to improve students’ performance. Furthermore, TI-Nspire has the potential to be a tool in promoting higher level mathematical thinking that encompasses mathematical problems solving, reasoning and mathematical exploration.

138-150

Authors: Jaderick P. Pabico, Jose Rene L. Micor

Online social networking (OSN) has become of great influence to Filipinos, where Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and Instagram are among the popular ones. Their popularity, coupled with their intuitive and interactive use, allow one's personal information such as gender, age, address, relationship status, and list of friends to become publicly available. The accessibility of information from these sites allow, with the aid of computers, for the study of a wide population's characteristics even in a provincial scale. Aside from being neighbouring locales, the respective residents of Laguna and Batangas both derive their livelihoods from two lakes, Laguna de Bay and Taal Lake. Both residents experience similar problems, such as that, among many others, of fish kill. The goal of this research is to find out similarities in their respective online populations, particularly that of Facebook's. With the use of computational dynamic social network analysis (CDSNA), we found out that the two communities are similar, among others, as follows: both populations are dominated by single young female; Homophily was observed when choosing a friend in terms of age (i.e., friendships were created more often between people whose ages do not differ by at most five years); and Heterophily was observed when choosing friends in terms of gender (i.e., more friendships were created between a male and a female than between both people of the same gender). This paper also presents the differences in the structure of the two social networks, such as degrees of separation and preferential attachment.

161-173

Authors: Lesego Tawana & Alakanani A. Nkhwalume

This research study’s aim was to track the paths of chemistry and mathematics in-service students studying for a degree at the University of Botswana who seemed to struggle with degree level concepts in their respective programmes despite holding diplomas in their fields. The authors are lecturers of both methodology and content courses in science and mathematics who became concerned about the seeminglyunderpreparedness of most in-service students for degree courses over the years. The study can be located within a social structuralist theoretical perspective where learning is viewed as a social entity, social structure referring to the ways people are interrelated or interdependent within their cultural mores as is the norm in an academic setting. The research team identified four categories of operational challenges that the students are most likely to face as university leaners, namely academic, social and emotional, economic and environmental challenges and these formed the basis on which the data collection process ensued. The qualitative methods paradigm was found to appropriate and the study was conducted within the framework of an action research approach. A qualitative research was relevant to the study because it had the capacity to enable the researchers to identify the cognitive views held by in-service students and the meanings they made of their experiences concerning their studies or the program (Hancock, 2004). The research sought to identify where the identified challenges emanated from with a view to make those involved in the academic paths of these learners to take heed of their problems. The study found that in-service learners are faced with all sorts of problems including lack of accommodation on campus, uncooperative lecturers, the university system which lumps them together with pre-service students making them academic prisoners, large class sizes which render learning a near impossibility for some, and the fast learning pace which does not give some a chance to challenge issues of concern.

188-197

Authors: Anyadiegwu C.I.C, Muonagor C.M.

Analysis of the effects of formation damage on the productivity of gas storage reservoirs was performed with depleted oil reservoir (OB-02), located onshore, Niger Delta, Nigeria. Information on the reservoir and the fluids from OB-02 were collected and used to evaluate the deliverabilities of the gas storage reservoir over a 10-year period of operation. The results obtained were used to plot graphs of deliverability against permeability and skin respectively. The graphs revealed that as the permeability decreased, the skin increased, and hence a decrease in deliverability of gas from the reservoir during gas withdrawal. Over the ten years of operating the reservoir for gas storage, the deliverability and permeability which were initially 2.7 MMscf/d and 50 mD, with a skin of 0.2, changed to new values of 0.88 MMscf/d and 24 mD with the skin as 4.1 at the tenth year.

208-215

Authors: Dr. Satish Kumar Kalhotra

The present study was carried out to identify Parent Child Relationship Among High and Low Achieving High School Students. A sample of 151 students of IX class students of Govt. school were selected from stratified random sampling. Rao’s (1989) parent-child relationship scale were used to assess the parental relationship The statistical technique like mean, median critical ration was used to find the low and high achiever relationship between father-child & mother child relationship. Lamsal inventory was used to collected the data.The results reveals that High achievers are loved more by their fathers than low ones and are given due importance at home. In constant the mothers equally love both high and low achievers.