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ASPECTS OF HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
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ASPECTS OF HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
The aspects of human growth and development refer to the various dimensions or facets of individuals' progress and maturation as they move through different stages of life. These aspects encompass physical, cognitive, emotional, social, moral, identity, sexual, and spiritual dimensions, each contributing to the holistic development of individuals
Here are the key aspects of human growth and development:
1. Physical Development: Physical development refers to the changes in the body's structure, function, and appearance over time. This includes growth in height, weight, muscle mass, bone density, motor skills, coordination, sensory abilities, and physical health.
2. Cognitive Development: Cognitive development involves the growth and maturation of mental processes, including perception, memory, attention, language, problem-solving, reasoning, decision-making, and information processing. Cognitive development is influenced by genetics, environment, experiences, and educational opportunities.
3. Emotional Development: Emotional development pertains to the ability to recognize, understand, and manage one's own emotions as well as empathize with others' feelings. It involves the development of emotional awareness, regulation, expression, resilience, empathy, and social competence.
4. Social Development: Social development encompasses the growth of interpersonal skills, social relationships, and social behaviors within the context of family, peers, schools, communities, and society at large. It includes the development of communication skills, cooperation, empathy, conflict resolution, and cultural competence.
5. Moral Development: Moral development refers to the formation of ethical principles, values, beliefs, and standards of behavior that guide individuals' decisions and actions in social and moral dilemmas. It involves the development of conscience, empathy, moral reasoning, and the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.
6. Identity Development: Identity development involves the exploration and construction of one's sense of self, including personal values, beliefs, interests, goals, roles, and identity. It encompasses the development of self-concept, self-esteem, self-awareness, and the integration of personal and social identities.
7. Sexual Development: Sexual development involves the biological, psychological, and social aspects of sexuality, gender identity, and sexual orientation. It includes the physical changes associated with puberty, the exploration of sexual identity and relationships, and the development of healthy attitudes and behaviors related to sexuality.
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STA 434: SURVEY RESEARCH METHODS
Determining the Sample Design
Sample design covers the areas of sampling frame, sample size, and sampling methodology. Aspects to be considered within these areas include:
Researchers usually draw conclusions about large groups by taking a sample. A sample is a segment/ part/small section of the population selected to represent the population as a whole.
Population on the other hand is the largest collection of values of a random variable for which we have an interest at a particular time. A sampling frame is a list of all members (e.g. persons, households, businesses, schools)
of the target population for the survey. For example, a sampling frame may be the electoral roll, the membership list of a club, or a register of schools. Information collected from the sample is used to make conclusion/inferences on population
characteristics. Ideally, the sample should be representative and allow the researcher to make accurate estimates of the thoughts and behaviour of the larger population. To draw conclusions about populations from samples, one must use inferential statistics to be able to determine a population’s characteristics by directly observing only a portion of the it. Designing the sample calls for three key decisions to answer the following questions:
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STA 434: SURVEY RESEARCH METHODS
COLLECTING DATA:
Having formulated the research problem, developed a study design, constructed a research
instrument and selected a sample, you then collect the data from which you will draw
inferences and conclusions for your study. Depending upon your plans, you might
commence interviews, mail out a questionnaire, conduct experiments and/or make
observations.
Collecting data through any of the methods may involve some ethical issues in
relation to the participants and the researcher:
- Those from whom information is collected or those who are studied by a
researcher become participants of the study.
- Anyone who collects information for a specific purpose, adhering to the
accepted code of conduct, is a researcher.
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STA 434: SURVEY RESEARCH METHODS
DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS:
Processing and analyzing data involves a number of closely related operations which are
performed with the purpose of summarizing the collected data and organizing these in a
manner that they answer the research questions (objectives).
The Data Processing operations are:
1. Editing – This is the process of examining the collected raw data to detect errors and
omissions and to correct these when possible.
2. Classification – This is the process of arranging data in groups or classes on the basis
of common characteristics. Depending on the nature of phenomenon involved
a) Classification according to attributes:
Here, data is analyzed on the basis of common characteristics which can either
be:
i) Descriptive such as literacy, sex, religion etc.
ii) Numerical such as weight, height, income etc. Such classification can
be either:
• Simple classification: where we consider only one attribute, and
divide the universe into two classes – one class consisting of
items possessing the given attribute, and the other class
consisting of items which do not possess the given attribute.
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XEA 406: POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT
Another convenient feature of the FGT class of poverty measures is that they can be
disaggregated for population subgroups and the contribution of each subgroup to national
poverty can be calculated.
Although the FGT measure provides an elegant unifying framework for measures of poverty, it
leaves unanswered the question of the best value of .
The measures of poverty depth and poverty severity provide information complementary to the
incidence of poverty.
It might be that some groups have a high poverty incidence but low poverty gap (when numerous
members are just below the poverty line), while other groups have a low poverty incidence but a
high poverty gap for those who are poor (when relatively few members are below the poverty
line but with extremely low levels of consumption).
The Table below provides an example from Madagascar
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XEA 406: POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT
Describing Poverty: Poverty Profiles
What is a Country Poverty Profile?
A country poverty profile sets out the major facts on poverty and inequality, and then examines the pattern of poverty to see how it varies by geography (by region, urban or rural, mountains or plains, and so on), by community characteristics (for example, in communities with and without a school), and by household characteristics (for example, by education of household head or by household size). Hence, a poverty profile is a comprehensive poverty comparison, showing how poverty varies across subgroups of society. A well-presented poverty profile can be very informative and extremely useful in assessing how the sectoral or regional pattern of economic change is likely to
affect aggregate poverty. It uses basic techniques such as tables and graphs. For example, regional poverty comparisons are important for targeting development programs to poorer areas.
A study of poverty in Cambodia showed that headcount poverty rates were highest in the rural sector and lowest in Phnom Penh in 1999
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XEA 406: POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT
Poverty Monitoring and Evaluation
A poverty monitoring and evaluation system is required to determine whether a countrys overall
poverty reduction strategy, and its main components, is effective.
Poverty Monitoring Challenges
The first challenge in monitoring progress toward poverty reduction is to:
• Identify the goals that the strategy is designed to achieve, such as eradicate hunger or
halve poverty within a decade.
• Select the key indicators that measure progress toward the goals for example the proportion of
individuals consuming less than 2,100 Calories per day, or the proportion of households
living on less than a dollar a day.
• Set targets, which quantify the level of the indicators that are to be achieved by a given
date, for example reduce by half the number of households living on less than a dollar a day by
the year 2030
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XEA 406: POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT
Poverty and Environment
What is the Environment?
The term environment’ used narrowly refers to green issues concerned with nature such as
pollution control, biodiversity and climate change.
Use more broadly, it includes issues such as drinking water and sanitation provision (often
known as the brown agenda).
Neefjes (2000, p. 2) uses the term in a broad sense, referring to the environment as a vehicle for analyzing and describing relationships between people and their surroundings, now and in
the future. What is the linkage between Poverty and Environment?
The simplistic cyclical relationship between environment and poverty is where poverty causes environmental destruction and this causes poverty.
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PHYSICAL FACTORS INFLUENCINCING DISTRIBUTION OF PLANT COMMUNITIES
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What is environment?
The surrounding. It is a complex of many factors that
interact not only with the organism but also among
themselves.
The physical-chemical and biological components of the
environment are of great importance to an ecologist.
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SOILS
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Soil is the upper layer of the earth’s crust or surface.
Different vegetation types occur on different soil types.
Soil types are closely related to species distribution and
community structure.
Specifically, species diversity is linked to soil composition,
stratification and soil formation.
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CLASSIFICATION OF ANTHROPODS
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Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Trilobita (Trilobitomorpha): trilobites (extinct)
Subphylum Chelicerata: chelicerates
Class Merostomata: horseshoe crabs
Class Pycnogonida: sea spiders
Class Arachnida: spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, etc.
Subphylum Crustacea: crustaceans
Class Malacostraca (orders: Isopoda, Amphipoda,
Decapoda and Stomatopoda)
Class Branchiopoda: brine shrimp, water fleas (Daphnia)
Class Copepoda:copepods
Class Cirripedia: barnacles
Class Ostracoda: seed shrimps
Subphylum Uniramia: uniramians
Class Diplopoda: millipedes
Class Chilopoda: centipedes
Class Pauropoda: pauropods
Class Symphyla: symphylans
Class Insecta: insects --- (subphylum Hexapoda
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