Every student deserves a chance to be selected regardless of their educational background or socio-economic position. ... It is generally acknowledged that genetic factors play an important role, but differences in culture, socio-economic background, educational opportunity, language, values and customs also need to be taken into account when assessing cognitive ability, or intelligence (De Beer, 2000). ...

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Student's age, economic status, school graduated from and their grades in English may come as the potent factor in their reading proficiency. ... It has something to do with the economic status of the students. If the status of the family of the learner is well-off there is a strong correlation that the learner is more exposed to broad reading materials like magazines, novels, and short stories, etc., that will help to them to improve their reading skills, than those misfortunate students whose only materials are those books in schools. ... What is the profile of respondents according to:...

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The field of educational technology has links that go back for almost a hundred years, at least to the museum movement in the early part of the 20th century. The museum movement and the success of training and development work during the two world wars were major factors in the development of the field. Educational technology flourished in the 1950's and continues to play an important role in many colleges of education. The particular sub-discipline of educational technology we will explore in this paper does not have a long history. Information technology and teacher education (ITTE) i...

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