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The high failure and retention rates at universities despite peer academic support programs has necessitated the need for the present study to investigate how monitoring and evaluation is carried out to support the facilitators of these programs. The study adopted a qualitative approach, collecting data from a sample of 12 participants made up of program coordinators and peer academic facilitators. The results indicate that there is monitoring and evaluation of these programs by program...

IntroductionThere is a growing awareness in Nigeria of the need to remove every barrier to information access irrespective of handicaps and disabilities. This is so for library patrons with disabilities as reflected in the National Policy on Education (2004) which stipulates a definite provision of captions resources for the hearing impaired students in Nigeria. Captioning is the process of converting audio information into text and displaying the text on the screen or monitor. They are...

Groundwater is globally important for human consumption, and changes in quality can have serious consequences. The study area is within a coastal aquifer where groundwater quality is influenced by various potential sources of salinity that determine the composition of water extracted from wells. Groundwater chemistry data from the aquifer have been acquired to determine the geochemical conditions and processes that occur in this area and assess their implications for aquifer susceptibility....

The research investigated the impact of interactive activities on students’ performance in reading comprehension. Two secondary schools were used for the study. Eighty (80) homogenized senior secondary school II students were used for the study, i.e 40 students from each school. The two schools were located far apart i.e government secondary school Doka, Kaduna North, Government Secondary School, Makera in Kaduna South. Two instruments were administered on the students. T-test was used to...

Why personal development in schools of engineering. The lack of self-awareness about personal and Professional projects push us teachers and coaches to guide students to have a clear vision about their future and discover their potential and the power of creativity by acquiring self-esteem, self-confidence and self-actualization. And also by helping them to overcome procrastination by managing their time and accepting and dealing with change positively.

Chemistry is a central science subject because it is required at Senior School Certificate level for entry into nearly all basic and applied science courses at the tertiary level of education in Nigeria. Nigerian students have, for many decades, performed very poorly in Chemistry at the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE). Students’ persistent mass failure in SSCE Chemistry has been attributed to many factors among which are the many topics which research has identified to be...

Climate variability and change is regarded as having major impacts on key sustainable socio-economic and environmental indicators in Sub-Saharan West Africa.Because of these concerns, we investigated smallholders knowledge, skills, and aspirations about managing climate change, and document adaptation strategies used in the semi-arid regions coming from Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger.We analyzed climate data from the 1950's to the present, including daily and aggregated rainfall and...

Climate variability and change is regarded as having major impacts on key sustainable socio-economic and environmental indicators in Sub-Saharan West Africa.Because of these concerns, we investigated smallholders knowledge, skills, and aspirations about managing climate change, and document adaptation strategies used in the semi-arid regions coming from Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger.We analyzed climate data from the 1950's to the present, including daily and aggregated rainfall and...

Climate variability and change is regarded as having major impacts on key sustainable socio-economic and environmental indicators in Sub-Saharan West Africa.Because of these concerns, we investigated smallholders knowledge, skills, and aspirations about managing climate change, and document adaptation strategies used in the semi-arid regions coming from Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger.We analyzed climate data from the 1950's to the present, including daily and aggregated rainfall and...

Climate variability and change is regarded as having major impacts on key sustainable socio-economic and environmental indicators in Sub-Saharan West Africa.Because of these concerns, we investigated smallholders knowledge, skills, and aspirations about managing climate change, and document adaptation strategies used in the semi-arid regions coming from Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger.We analyzed climate data from the 1950's to the present, including daily and aggregated rainfall and...

The socioeconomic situation of the country has prompted policy actions from Government of Ghana since 2005 to start the Ghana School Feeding Program (GSFP) to improve enrolment among pupils in public primary schools. The study used a district-level data (2008-2012) to examine socioeconomic factors affecting enrolment of pupils in food insecure district of Garu-Tempane District, Upper East Region. A quasi-experimental design was used in selecting 360 pupils both from participating and...

This research paper examines the perceptions of students towards tutorials in the Midlands Region of the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU). In particular the study intended to establish whether the tutorials were conducted in a manner that satisfied the students. This case study was pragmatic in approach as it utilized both quantitative and qualitative techniques such as questionnaires, interviews and observations. The study established that both tutors and students had problems in...

This research paper examines the perceptions of students towards tutorials in the Midlands Region of the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU). In particular the study intended to establish whether the tutorials were conducted in a manner that satisfied the students. This case study was pragmatic in approach as it utilized both quantitative and qualitative techniques such as questionnaires, interviews and observations. The study established that both tutors and students had problems in...

Gender is among the determinant factors affecting students' academic achievement.This paper tried to investigate the impact of gender on academic performance of preparatory secondary school students based on 2014 EHEECE result.Ex post facto research design was used.To that end, data were collected from 3243 students from eight purposively selected schools.The analysis has been undertaken quantitatively using independent samples t-test, one sample t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient,...

One of a number of articles arising from PhD research, this paper focuses on the results of applying transactional analysis as one of three approaches to reducing stress and burnout for teachers in high-risk secondary schools in the gangland areas of the Cape Flats, Western Cape, South Africa. The other approaches were Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) and Transpersonal Psychology (TP), and related articles on these and on the quantitative statistical analysis elements of this research are...