ABSTRACT Moral corruption seems to be a bane of Nigeria’s development. Lack of moral integrity manifests in fraud, dishonesty and subversion of truth, justice and due process in all facets of national life. This necessitates a comprehensive moral education programme to develop moral integrity in the coming generations of Nigerians. Previous studies have focused on indoctrinative approach to moral education. This has failed to adequately account for the role of reasoning in moral action and...
ABSTRACT Mathematics is a core subject in schools and a bedrock for scientific and technological development. To this end, qualified teachers must be produced at colleges of education (CoEs) in Southwestern Nigeria to teach the subject at basic education level. In recent times, the performance of learners of Mathematics in the CoEs in Southwestern Nigeria has not been encouraging. Most studies focused on instructional strategies for teaching Mathematics to the neglect of influencing factors....
ABSTRACT Literature have shown that students generally have erroneous knowledge about the transmission of HIV/AIDS which resulted in bad attitude that put them at risk of contracting the disease. There is a need to have instructional strategies that could help to increase the knowledge, attitude and perceived risk of HIV/AIDS in order to reduce the spread of the disease. There are dearth of studies on the importance of cooperative instructional strategies in changing secondary school student...
ABSTRACT English Language is the most compulsory subject in school curricular in Nigeria. As an important subject at secondary school, success or failure in it determines the extent to which learners would advance in their educational and career pursuits in life. However, records from public examination bodies reveal that students’ performance in the subject has been below average. This has been traced to their poor performance in and attitude to essay writing aspect of English Language ex...
ABSTRACT This study investigated upper primary school teachers ‘utilization of instructional time during the teaching and learning of integrated science. Teachers’ expectations of science lesson delivery and their actual practices in the classroom and their difficulties in teaching integrated science were also investigated. A multi-site case study approach was adopted for this study and the participants were purposively selected. Data were collected from primary four, five and six class...
ABSTRACT Mathematics is a core and compulsory school subject from primary through the senior secondary school level. Reports from examination bodies have shown that the mean score of Bayelsa State pupils’ achievement in mathematics is below average. This has been attributed to the lecture instructional strategy being adopted by the teachers of the subject. Therefore, game- and poem-enhanced instructional strategies have been recommended to improve mathematics instruction at the primary sch...
ABSTRACT Mentoring in higher education has become an integral aspect of continuing professional development in teaching and many other fields. In Nigeria, a widely accepted theory of mentoring in higher education with a philosophical basis is yet to evolve. Existing studies on mentoring scarcely justifies a sound theoretical base to underpin policy and practice for Nigeria‟s higher education. This has resulted in a preponderance of vague variables for the application and appropriation of i...
ABSTRACT Nigeria has domesticated the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but majority of Nigerian children are still being denied their rights to survival, development, participation and protection from inhuman treatment and exploitation. Lack of awareness of child rights among Nigerian children is one of the major factors identified with child rights abuse. Earlier attempts on awareness creation were limited to activities of media and advocacy groups without empirically finding out the ...
ABSTRACT Fine and applied arts provide the aesthetic and non-aesthetic necessities that enrich individuals’ quality of life. In recent times, the persistent students’ poor performance in the subject has been attributed to inadequate facilities, use of traditional classrooms and inappropriately designed learning environment in schools and institutions where teachers are being prepared. Researchers have focused on improved methodology and classroom practices but not on classroom and learni...
ABSRACT Social Studies as a subject is meant to involve pupils in meaningful learning activities to develop good citizenship and attitude to make informed decision on social matter. However, literature abounds that Social Studies is taught in schools using lecture methods which do not promote values and rational habits. This could be attributed to the fact that few studies have been carried out in the area of training of teachers to develop moral education programme. One of the ways by which...
ABSTRACT Biology is a compulsory subject for pre-degree science students in Nigerian universities; however, a decline in students’ performance in practical biology has been observed. Previous studies focused on strategies of teaching practical biology with little attention on animation and video-based flipped strategies. This study, therefore, determined the effects of Animation-based Flipped Classroom Strategy (AFCS) and Video-based Flipped Classroom Strategy (VFCS) on pre-degree students...
ABSTRACT Junior secondary school students‟ achievement in Basic Science in Oyo State seems not to be encouraging, a trend attributed partly to persistent usage of teacher-centered instructional methods. This necessitates the adoption of students-centered instructional strategies such as the active review and practice-invention strategies. The effectiveness of these two instructional strategies in the teaching of Basic Science has however not been properly documented. This study, therefore,...
ABSTRACT The importance of Physics in the development of science and technology has been emphasised in the literature. However, the enrolment and achievement of students in senior school certificate examination over the years keep dwindling as a result of the problem of selection of inappropriate and ineffective strategy of instruction and the abstract and practical nature of the subject, despite series of efforts of Physics educators and researchers aimed at addressing the issue. Thus, this...
ABSTRACT Literature-in-English is taught in Nigerian secondary schools to develop students‟ literary competence and language proficiency. However, students‟ achievement in and attitude to Literature-in-English are below par in Ibadan metropolis. This has been partly attributed to students‟ deficiency in prose literature. Earlier studies focused largely on teachers‟ and students‟ factors influencing students‟ learning outcomes in prose literature with little emphasis on interventi...
ABSTRACT In their quest to produce teachers who can teach ICT as well as integrate ICT into the teaching and learning enterprise, the Ministry of Education and Sports has introduced ICT studies into the curricula of Colleges of Education. This study was meant to find out how resourced are the Colleges of Education in Central Region of Ghana in their duty to train future teachers who can teach ICT and also be able to integrate ICT in the education venture. The study also sought to find out wha...