ABSTRACT This study compared the performance of male and female secondary school students in Sokoto State using Government Day Secondary School, Arkilla, Sokoto as a case study. The research centered on finding out the level of performance of secondary school students in Sokoto State and the factors that militate against good performance of secondary school students; as factors such as poverty, inadequate and obsolete infrastructural facilities, indiscipline, and inappropriate curriculum...
Abstract This paper addresses teachers’ skills on ICT Integration in teaching and learning and constraints that hinder the adoption in Government owned secondary schools. The study employed a cross-section research design which guided the collection of both quantitative and qualitative data. Simple random sampling was employed in the selection of participants of which data were collected from 75 teachers in government secondary schools, 15 Heads of Schools, 1 DEO and 3 Quality Assurers. ...
ABSTRACT The present study examined the relationship between entrepreneurship education programme of universities in Benue State and job creation, career intention, self productivity and poverty alleviation of undergraduate students. Four research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. The correlational research design was adopted for the study. The sample for the study consisted of 225 final year undergraduate students drawn from three universities in Benue state. The instrument u...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study is to find out the influence of family counselling on family stability of married teachers in secondary schools in Dekina Education Zone of Kogi State and to make recommendation for further improvement. This is aimed at helping the married teachers in secondary schools grow and develop normal in family counselling on family stability. In the pursuit of the work, five research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated. They are designed to test the so...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the relationships among child labour, access to education, retention in school and academic achievement among secondary school students in Mukono District of Uganda. Based on the reviewed literature, five research questions were raised to guide the study while four hypotheses were tested. The study used a correlation research design. A sample of 600 secondary school students was composed through multistage sampling that involved both stratified rando...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of mobility techniques in facilitating the movement of persons with visual impairments in and around their homes and communities. Its main focus is to explore avenues and strategies for effective training of orientation and mobility skills to these individuals with visual impairments in the Garu-Tempane District. An action research design was used to guide the study. A sample size of 10 people was involved in the study. T...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the attitude of teachers at St Peter’s JHS towards the use of ICT, to explain these attitudes and to capture what teachers think can be done to improve their attitudes towards the use of ICT for teaching and learning processes. Using purposive sampling techniques, a sample of 14 was selected. The study takes the form of a survey that makes use of an open ended questionnaire for data collection. The resulting data are analyzed...
ABSTRACT This study is aimed at examining the influence of Interactive method of teaching on the performance of Science teachers at the Evangelical Presbyterian Basic School, Sogakofe. Fifty pupils were purposively sampled for the study. The nature of the study was conventional research. Nine Integrated Science teachers were selected for the research. Questionnaires were administered to respondents and data was collected. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data in terms of frequ...
Abstract The study examined the influence of administrators' leadership skills on employees' job engagement in tertiary educational institutions is Ogun State, Nigeria. The study was guided by three research questions. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The sample comprises 415 employees (academic and non-teaching staff) selected from six out of the 12 public tertiary institutions in Ogun State, Nigeria, using multi-stage sampling technique. A researcher-designed...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the impact of Activity Schedule and Anticipation Training as counselling strategies in managing mild depression among Nigerian adolescents. Six Senior Secondary Schools were randomly selected from three Education Districts in Lagos State. The total population of SS 2 students, available for the study in the six schools, was 2,982. To select the participants for the study, The Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) was administered to assess the cognitive, affecti...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of testwiseness training on test anxiety and achievement in Mathematics among selected secondary school students in Ekiti State. The moderating effect of gender and cognitive ability was also investigated. The study employed the pre test-post test control group, quasi experimental research design. A total of four hundred and twenty five (425) participants consisting of two hundred and nineteen (219) male and two hundred and six (206) female Senior...
ABSTRACT The study focused on the role of education in fostering national unity in Ghana and Nigeria.