ABSTRACT Studies have shown that student-teachers are performing below expectation in the Teaching Practice (TP) exercise; a core aspect of the College of Education (CoE) curriculum. This TP poor performance trend in the CoE has been partly attributed to anxiety among the student-teachers. However, previous studies on TP performance have been limited to impacts of supervision issues, students‟ demographic factors, excess workload, duration of the exercise, planning and preparation problems...
ABSTRACT The quest for decentralisation rests on the capacity to enhance grassroot participation in development programmes and community integration to facilitate even spread of developmental projects. In spite of the adoption of the decentralisation strategy, the physical and socio- economic conditions in most of these communities in Kwara and Osun states do not seem to have improved significantly. Previous studies had focused more on impacts of decentralisation on ethnic conflicts and sece...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the relative effectiveness of active-directive learning strategy over lecture method in enhancing the satisfaction, self-concept and cognitive performance of adult learners. One hundred adults; holders of Teachers’ Grade Two Certificate with a minimum of five years experience were selected by cluster sampling. The age-range was between twenty-eight and fifty years. Using a 2x 2 factorial design, fifty adult learners were exposed to the experimental Prog...
ABSTRACT How an organisation achieves its stated goals largely depends on the quality of its human resources as well as the conditions of work. The quality of the employees and the extent of their motivation, greatly contribute to ensuring the successful attainment of organisation‟s set goals. In our world today, many organisations have designed strategies aimed at ensuring that their employees work within the most conducive environments. Fair Wages Commission of Ghana opines that pr...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Title .....................................................................................................................................................i Dedication ........................................................................................................................................ii Recognition ...............................................................................................................................................iii Contents...