ABSTRACT Agricultural education offers opportunity for entrepreneurship and self-reliance for sustainable growth and development. This paper focuses on areas of agriculture that enhances self sustenance such as animal husbandry, crop production as well as marketing of agricultural product. The various infrastructural manpower constraints as well inconsistency in educational policy and over dependence of the economy on petroleum were highlighted as part of the challenges in development of Agr...
INTRODUCTION The art of communication involves listening and speaking as well as reading and writing. Staffs need to be highly skilled in all these areas to excel in their profession. Proficient communicators receive information, understand and synthesize it and express themselves at a high level. They make excellent staffs because they are able to transmit knowledge, skills and values at the same time they communicate their caring for the students entrusted to their care. They help motivate ...
By Bethany A. Bell-Ellison ABSTRACT Grounded in Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) Ecological Systems Theory and through the application of cross-classified random effects models, the goal of this study was to examine simultaneously neighborhood and school influences on adolescent academic achievement and risk of obesity, as well as the moderating effects of schools on these outcomes. By examining concurrently neighborhood and school influences on achievement and risk of obesity, this study aimed to ...
Abstract In recent years, Sweden has adopted a criterion-referenced grading system, where the grade outcome is used for several purposes, but foremost for educational evaluation on student- and school levels as well as for selection to higher education. This thesis investigates the consequences of using criterion-referenced measurement for both educational evaluation and selection purposes. The thesis comprises an introduction and four papers that empirically investigate school grades and gra...
Teachers' Perceptions Regarding The Structure Of Jsc Business Studies Examination In Enugu UrbanABSTRACTThe study was aimed at ascertaining Business Education teacher perceptions regarding the structure of JSC examination in Enugu State with particular reference to Enugu Urban.The target population of the study comprised all the practicing business education teachers within all the selected secondary schools in Enugu Urban. The data generated were precisely analysed by the use of statis...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page---------i Approval Page--------ii Declaration--------iii Dedication---------iv Acknowledgement-------v Abstract---------vi Table of Contents-------vii CHAPTER ONE – INTRODUCTION 1.1Background of the Study----- 1.2Statement of General Problem---- 1.3Objective of the Study------ 1.4Research Questions------ 1.5 Hypothesis - - - - - - - - - 1.6Significance of the Study----- 1....
ABSTRACT This research was carried out to investigate examination malpractice among secondary school students in Oshodi/Isolo Local Government area in Lagos State. The project examines the attitude and perception of students and teachers towards examination malpractice in secondary schools. In this research work, a sample of one hundred (100) respondents was collected using purposive sampling techniques from four secondary schools in Oshodi/Isolo Local Government. The research instrument used...
ABSTRACT Family background in this context is a general term that encompasses a particular setting in which a child is raised, characterized by a common residence, economic operation and reproduction. these factors have far reaching impacts on the academic performance of students. Therefore, this work is a descriptive research which tries to examine the influence of family background on the academic performance of upper basic students in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State. A ...
ABSTRACT The study focused on selection and utilization of Social studies instructional methods by secondary schools teachers in Ebonyi State. Five purposes of study were formulated to guide the study. Five research questions rooted in the purpose were also formulated and three null hypotheses were also made to guide the study. The design of the study was descriptive survey research design aimed at eliciting information from the respondents based on the research questions that guided the st...
INTRODUCTIONReligion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to supernatural and to spirituality. It is part and parcel of man and cannot be separated from it. It plays important roles in the life of an individual and in the society at large in such a way that it binds people together, explains the human predicaments, helps to control human behaviour and provides an individual with emotional support in respect of uncertainty of life. In na...
INTRODUCTIONThe study of adolescents schooling is important to social scientists and policy makers who are interested in influencing adolescent development, because it is through educational institution that the greatest number of young people can easily be reached.Sociologists have observed on numerous occasions that schools in large complex societies are expected to help sort adolescents for societal roles and occupational positions. At present the larger society assigns the job of assessin...
INTRODUCTIONIt is a natural phenomenon for children to look to the adults in their surrounding environment as leaders that they may one day choose to emulate. In some instances, many children have a misconception of what it means to serve as a leader. They often only see the leader as a person who is the boss, someone who is in charge, or first. In school, many children have the desire to be the ‘line leader’ or the individual who stands in the capacity of the teacher and writes names whe...
ABSTRACTThe aim of this study is to trace the history and development of Lagooz College, Orile Agege, Lagos State from 2005 to 2011, in order to justify its existence since its establishment in 2005. This project also reveals their short comings and thereby make recommendations where necessary for future development. The study is divided into five chapters.In chapter one of this study, the researcher discussed into details, the geographical and historical background of the town, where the sc...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out to identify the effects parental influence has on the child's learning and his future life, endeavour of student. A student population of 50 student drawn from five Secondary School randomly selected was used for the study to each student questionnaire was administered and answer offered were collated and analysed. The result obtained from the study show that, illiterate parents have little or no time to their children's education, children from educated hom...