ABSTRACT Homework is a task that teachers assign to students to be completed outside the class time. It is an important tool for enhancing instruction as it is designed to reinforce what students have already learned and to prepare them for upcoming lessons and tasks. Various endevour have been employed to improve performance in mathematics including homework which teachers give to students at various amounts and frequencies. However, research done so far does not give guidance on the amount ...
ABSTRACT Information Communication Technology (ICT) is perceived as a catalyst for change in teaching styles, learning approaches and accessing information in the world. It can be used to analyze, present information in the classroom, to facilitate delivery of instructions and learning process. ICT enables access to ideas and experience from a wide range of people, communities and cultures. It is for this reason that most countries have integrated ICT into their teaching in elementary schools...
ABSTRACT Effective internal supervision of curriculum is necessary for educational institutions to offer quality education to learners. Thus head teachers should possess requisite knowledge, skills and attitude in curriculum supervision. In Bungoma West Sub-County low academic achievement is an issue in most public primary schools. This is attributed to various factors, with inefficiency in internal curriculum supervision often mentioned by stakeholders in the Sub-County as one of the factors...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Nigerian Primary School Social Studies Curriculum. The justification of this study is that there has been no national evaluation carried out on this curriculum since its inception into Nigeria Primary schools. This study was also considered necessary to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the curriculum and to provide a possible feedback so as to enhance quality control Extensive literature review had been carried out in the area of ...
ABSTRACT The Nigerian parents assessment of the effectiveness of pre-school education centres around the speed and the extent to which their pre-school children master the academic skills. This inappropriate index of academic success has resulted in the predominance of drills and memorisation as the commonest feature of the pre-school classes. Play, which is one of the best methods through which 'the pre-school age children learn, has been relocated to a state of recess or total abandonment i...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is twofold. Firstly, it seeks to investigate the relationship between students' knowledge of mathematical concepts and their problem-solving ability with due consideration for their computational ability and comprehension of mathematics language. Secondly, it intends to find out whether teachers' methods of teaching mathematical concepts would have any positive effect on the improvement of problem-solving ability of students. The study was carried out in Lag...
ABSTRACT In both the United States of America and the United Kingdom, Social Studies emerged towards the turn of the century in response to the problems created by industrialisation. Faced with similar prospects, Nigeria introduced Social Studies into the curricula of her educational institutions in the early 1970s. Up till now, however, the objectives, context and methods of the subject have not been clearly defined in the Nigerian context, and the extent of its diffusion down the educationa...
ABSTRACT The shortcomings in students' performances in the literature examination at the West African School Certificate level have been found to be underlined by teaching deficiencies. These deficiencies could, in turn, be remedied by certain basic strategies for teaching. The study has postulated that a combination of Stylistic Analysis and Literary Criticism be adopted as a frame of reference for developing teaching plans for literature. It is also believed that if the teachers were to con...
ABSTRACT Nursing Education is a humanistic science which focuses on the intellectual development of the learner, compassionate concern for the sick, rehabilitation of the disabled and care for the dying. Hence the goal of nursing education reflects the needs, problems and aspirations of the society. Despite the series of reforms in nursing education, in response to societal needs and challenges, basic nursing education curriculum under investigation has not been evaluated since its introduct...
Abstract Residents of wards 12 and 13 in Mberengwa depend on subsistence agriculture for their livelihoods. These residents incorporate weather forecasts in agricultural decision- making especially in decisions that relate to crop production. The residents of the two wards, have since developed their own indigenous weather forecasting systems that they use in conjunction with meteorological weather forecasts for agricultural planning purposes. This study examines the perceptions of th...
Abstract Ministry of Education is losing teachers to other sectors within the Namibian economy (Iyambo, 2012). Those that are leaving the teaching profession are not easily replaced because there are already not enough of the academically able students being attracted to teaching. Iyambo (2012) noted that the highest rates of attrition were among teachers with the highest academic qualification. This study aimed at investigating factors contributing to teachers ‘attrition. The purpose for t...