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Improving Reading Comprehension through Context Clues Strategy for the Eleventh Grade Students at Vo Thi Sau High School

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The goal of this study is to find out how effective teachers use Context Clues Strategy to improve reading skills for students at a high school in Ba Ria – Vung Tau province, Vietnam. The eleventhgrade students at Vo Thi Sau high school were the participants. The research method was classroom action research. The quantitative data was gathered during the tests. According to the results, 11 students (14.6%) passed the Mastery Minimum Criteria on the pre-test, whereas 53 students (70.6%) passed the post-test. The findings showed that student’s performance on the post-test had significantly improved. The comparison between the pre-test score (4.86) and the post-test score (7.41) demonstrated this improvement. As a result, Context Clues Strategy was a useful tool for teaching students reading comprehension. Lastly, some limitations and recommendations for further research are also mentioned. 

Improving Care in Accident and Emergency Departments in Pakistan

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Introduction: Emergency departments (EDs) are perceived as 24/7 portals where a rapid and efficient diagnosis, urgent attention, primary care, and inpatient admission is provided for stabilizing seriously ill and wounded patients.

Objectives: The main objective of the study is to analysed the improving care in accident and emergency departments.

Material and methods: This analytical study was conducted in DHQ hospital, Sahiwal during 2020 to 2021. For this 5 hospitals were selected for the determination of improving care in accident and EDs. All hospitals were visited one by one and collect the data for the determination of mode of clinics and improving care. Number of patients and number of doctors were also counted. Results: Analysis of results was performed by comparing the data of hospitals with international standards. Patient case notes were checked for compliance with RCP 12 point generic medical record keeping standards on 5 point scale to stratify the level of compliance. Hospitals where case notes fulfilled all the 12 standards were placed at point 5. EDs safety scores were measured on 4 point scale and different hospitals were categorized according to grades A, B, C, D and F.

Conclusion: It is concluded that the emergency service would be provided largely by doctors in middle grade or career grade posts supported by nurse practitioners, general practitioners, and senior house officers working under much closer supervision than at present.