Research Papers/Topics in Adult Education

Web Questing in TEFL Courses: What Factors Deter the Students' Information-seeking Behavior?

The survival and the continuity of an organization’s operations depend upon the use of information. As such, investigating the Webquesting behavior of university students in general and TEFL (Teaching English as a foreign language) students in particular during the Covid 19 seems essential. Since information-seeking behavior can be influenced by  various factors we aimed to explore the attitude of TEFL students  towards webquesting.  In the next phase of the study, we sought the bar...

Influence of Home Literacy Environment on Reading Achievement of Primary School Pupils (A Case Study of Abeokuta South Local Government, Ogun State.)

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Assessing Self Efficacy for Learning and for Employment Between Regular and Sandwich Students of Primary Education Studies in University of Ilorin, Kwara State

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Assessment of Study Strategies and Achievement Goals of Sandwich Students in University of Ilorin, Kwara State

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Teacher Perception of the Inclusion Of Civic Education in the School Curriculum in Ibadan Nigeria

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study          Civic education is one of subjects included in the school curriculum in Nigeria. There are many scholars that defined civic education according to their school of thought. The following are the different definitions of civic education.          Civic Education is an important component of education that cultivates, citizens to participate in the public life of a democracy, to use their rights and to discharge their ...

The Effect of Government, Community and Private Sector on Early Childhood Education in Ilorin South Local Government Area, Kwara State.

ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of Government, Community and Private Sector on the Early Childhood Education in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State. A total of 102 questionnaires were distributed to teachers in six (6) randomly selected primary schools. Descriptive and influential statistics were used to analyze the data collected. The finding of the study reveals that, government (at all levels), community and private sector’s, contribution have ...

An Appraisal Of Accounting System in Public Sector Organization (A Case Study of Enugu Board Of Internal Revenue) Proposal

Proposal   This write up is the result of a studying of the accounting process in the public sector. The work is principally aimed at providing an insight into the accounting system of Board of Internal revenue Enugu State, its inefficience, problems and ways these problems could be effectively be managed. This work is divided into five chapters namely; The first chapter which is the introduction of the topic, the researcher defined public sector accounting, the purpose and objective as w...

Financial Resource Allocation and Principal Administrative Effectiveness in Public Senior Secondary School in Oke Ero Local Government Area, Kwara State

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study           Principals play critical roles in the development of high-quality schools. Therefore only a small body of research links principals directly to student achievement (Hanushek & Rivkin, 2009), a much larger research based documents principals’ effects on school operations, through motivating teachers and students, identifying and articulating vision and goals, developing high performance expectations, fostering communicati...

Effects of Level of Literacy of Parents and Pupils Academic Performance in Ilorin West Local Government Area, Kwara State

TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE  …………………………………………………………………….......i DECLARATION……………………………………………………………………ii CERTIFICATION ………………………………………………………………….iii DEDICATION……………………………………………………………………....iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENT…………………………………………………………..v TABLE OF CON...

Constructing and Validating a Questionnaire on Barriers to EFL Learners’ Reflective Writing

The purpose of the current study was to develop and validate a scale to assess the inhibitors to reflective writing of Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. The other aim of this study was to assess the reliability of the questionnaire. To prepare the first item pool of the questionnaire, the researchers reviewed the previous related literature and prepared the first item pool with 62 items. At the next stage, based on the judgments of some experts in the field regarding ...

ONLINE COLLABORATIVE ACTION RESEARCH IN AN EFL CONTEXT: THE EFFECT ON TEACHERS’ REFLECTIVE PRACTICE

 Technology  can  be  integrated  in  teacher  education  and,  hence,  be  used  to  empower teachers to extend learning beyond their classrooms. Therefore, the present study was an attempt to investigate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ perceptions of action research and explore  the impact  of  their  collaborative  action research  in  an  online  discussion  group  on their reflective  practice.  In  addition,  we  were  interested  to  ...

Knowledge Sharing and Reflective Practice Among ESP Instructors of Allied Medical Sciences

Abstract Knowledge  sharing  and  reflective  thinking  are  two  key  issues  in  any educational  system.  The  present  study  examined  the  willingness  of  instructors  of English  for  the  students  of  allied  medical  sciences  to  share  knowledge  and  think reflectively and  investigated their  reluctance  to  form  knowledge  sharing  groups.  To this aim, in the quantitative phase of the study, two questionnaires were completed by 14...

The Role Of Volta Rural Water Supply And Sanitation Project In Promoting Health And Hygiene Education In The Rural Areas Of The Volta Region

ABSTRACT The Volta Region is faced with many health hazards that are brought about by the absence of safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, and an effective health education mechanism. This study aims at finding out the contributions of the Volta Rural Water Supply and Sanitation project to the promotion of health and hygiene education in the rural areas of the region. The study found out that in the area of community health, the project has made a significant impact on the people so far...

The Inhibitors to Information Seeking Behavior of Nursing Students in General English and ESP Courses from University Instructors’ Perspective: A Case Study

Introduction: Investigating the information seeking behavior of nursing students in General  English  and  ESP  courses  is  of  great  importance  since  various  factors  may impact the students’ information seeking behavior. As such, the present study sought the inhibitors to the information seeking behavior of students of nursing in  general English and ESP courses.  Methods : The  study  is  a  qualitative  research  that  adopted  a  conventional  content ...

Collaborative Climate and Knowledge Sharing among ESP Teachers: A Mixed Method Study

Research on teacher collaboration emphasizes the key role of collaborative culture for teachers’  functioning;  however,  there  is  little  empirical  evidence  to  investigate  its  relationship  with  knowledge  sharing  among  university  ESP  teachers.  In  the  present  study,  the  relationship  between EFL teachers’ collaborative climate and knowledge sharing was sought. The data were  collected through two surveys of 328 Iranian ESP teachers. A Pearson c...


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