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This study was carried out to ascertain the attitude of lecturers in Nigerian universities towards students’ evaluation of their teaching effectiveness. Descriptive survey was employed in carrying out the study. The population comprised all lecturers in three universities in south-south Nigeria. Stratified random sampling technique was used to draw a sample of five hundred and fifty lecturers out of which four hundred and ninety responded. A self designed questionnaire titled “lecturers...

This paper emphasizes the contributions of education to national development. It stresses the fact that a nation develops in relation to its achievement in education. This explains why contemporary world attention has focused on education as an instrument of launching nations into the world of science and technology and with consequential hope of human advancement in terms of living conditions and development of the environment. This is because, education, in the life of a nation, is the...

The purpose of the research study was to evaluate the head teachers’ perception of online registration on Exam performance in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education enrolment. A census of all the 35 secondary schools in the district was used to gather the necessary information to be used in the study. The data obtained was coded, tabulated and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The result shows that most of the respondents had been in their current school for less than 3 years. The...

This study examines undergraduates' perspective on sex education and teenage pregnancy in Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. The study population was 250 undergraduates of Covenant University. Frequency tables, linear regression analysis and analysis of variance were used to analyze the data collected via self-administered questionnaires. Two hypotheses were tested in this study. The results derived from this study are: firstly, that the level of awareness on sex education...

This study explored the influence of familial factors, personality traits and self-efficacy on entrepreneurial behavior among college of education students. A correlational research design was adopted for the study. The participants include 470 vocational based students in the two public Colleges of Education in Oyo state, Nigeria. Four research instruments were used to extract information from the participants. These include Entrepreneurial Intention Scale(r = 0.71), General Self-efficacy...

Development of library resources in all library environments - schools, public, academic, etc. should not be static, but dynamic, so that they can handle the educational and recreational needs of their clientele as years pass on. This paper discussed the evolution and use of school library resources in Nigeria from 1960s to date. Treatment of this topic took cognizance of the changes in the format of school library resources, their sequence of inclusion in the library and the uses made of...

Objective: To determine the sociodemographic factors that affects the usage of complete dentures. Material and Methods: A structured questionnaire was administered to edentulous patients seen in a prosthetic outpatient department of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria. Complete dentures were fabricated, assessed, and fitted, and the patients were followed up for six months. Information sought included demographics of the subjects, their socioeconomic status, reason for...

The English language plays a prominent role in education in Nigeria and the school provides the most viable formal setting in which it could be studied. This research attempts to identify the extent of utilisation of Information Communication Technology components in the teaching and learning of spoken English in selected private/public secondary schools in South West Nigeria. Twenty-five respondents each was selected from four public schools, 20 from two private schools and 20 English...

Ascariasis is a human disease caused by the parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides.Perhaps as many as one quarter of the world’s people are infected, with rates of 45% in Latin America and 95% in parts of Africa .Ascariasis is particularly prevalent in tropical regions and in areas of poor hygiene. Study to know the prevalence of ascariasis among the students and teachers of Jooro Grammar School, Ibule-Soro, Ondo State, was undertaken. A total of 243 subjects examined. Stool sample was...

This study is an analysis of the impact of the current global economic meltdown on engineering education in Nigeria. Economic meltdown means economic recession.  Engineering education is one of the surest ways for thorough capacitation and developing countries, to reduce poverty and create opportunities for our young people.  One of the immediate effects of economic meltdown on organization is the inability of organization to maintain the current productive capacity owing to inadequate...

Unhealthy didactic atmosphere towards ceramic professionalism cannot successfully drive ceramic industry in Nigeria into sound technology. Invariably, the situation demand immediate repositioning of ceramic training in the Nigeria Art Schools to facilitate and fast track availability of high level man-power needed in the ceramic industry. For this reason, the problems of inadequate ceramic teaching and learning processes in art schools which has not been adequately attended to scholarly, was...

This study focused on the effects of Cornell, Verbatim and Outline note-taking strategies and review on College of Education Students’ retrieval of lecture information in Plateau State, Nigeria. A 2x4 factorial design was used whereby 160 NCE 2 students of two Colleges of Education in Plateau State, were randomly assigned to 6 experimental and 2 control groups. Groups 1-6 (experimental groups) were trained in taking Cornell, verbatim and outline notes, while groups 7-8 (control groups) were...

Soil pollution due to oil spill is a common problem in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. This necessitated the experiment to determine the effect of diesel oil pollution on some soil properties in Uyo within the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.  The experiment was conducted at the University of Uyo Teaching and Research Farm in 2009. It was laid out in a completely randomized design (CRD) in triplicates.  The size of the experimental plot was 60.7m 2 , sub-divided into three sub-plots each...

Knowledge and attitude of school teachers with regard to seizure disorder has an important impact on continuation of schooling of children with seizure disorder. Though school teachers in both rural and urban settings are exposed to the same training, their perception of seizure disorder could be influenced by the environment in which they reside.To determine the knowledge and attitudes of school teachers towards children with seizure disorder, and the influence of urban residence on...

Tertiary education in Nigeria has witnessed rising and falling within the past three decades with the attendant loss of status both within the sub-Saharan Africa and the world at large. This paper is focused on sustainability of tertiary education through quality assurance and development. It examined the dwindling status and challenges facing higher education in Nigeria. It also identified critical areas for quality assurance and development, and suggested the need for adoption of...