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This study investigated the influence of students’ interest and peer groups on learning of Office Technology and Management courses in tertiary institutions in Ondo State. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The sample size of the study consisted of the entire population of 167; and since the population size is small, there was no sampling. From the result of this study, it was found that students’ interest in OTM programme influenced their learning to a high extent. Similarly,...
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The present study investigated the extent to which extrinsic motivation beliefs predicted academic achievement in chemistry among students in public secondary schools in Kenya. The study was guided by Eccles-Wigfield’s Expectancy-Value theory of motivation. Concurrent embedded design was used in the study. Both Stratified random sampling and purposive sampling techniques were used to select 351 form four students, 10 chemistry teachers and 10 guidance and counseling teachers who participated...
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The present study was designed to determine the extent to which test anxiety beliefs predicted achievement in chemistry among students in public secondary schools in Kenya. The study was guided by Eccles-Wigfield’s Expectancy-Value theory of motivation. The study adopted concurrent embedded design. A sample of 353 form for students, 10 chemistry and 10 guidance and counseling teachers was selected from 26 public secondary schools from Rachuonyo South Sub County in Homa Bay County using both...
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The study examined the socio-economic factors influencing fast-food intake of the pupils in Ondo State. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The population for the study comprised private and public primary school pupils in Ondo State. The sample size comprised 400 respondents. Twenty schools (Ten private and ten public) were selected, and twenty pupils were selected from each school using accidental random sampling technique. A validated self-developed questionnaire...
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The current mental health care system in Nigeria continues to struggle with providing adequate care and services to all that require it due to limited resources, stigma of persons and families living with mental illness, biases from other professional team members and the complexities of treatment of many of those individuals that suffer from mental illness. Mental health nurses, also referred to as psychiatric nurses, are impacted by these same biases, limited resources, and complexities in...
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Dog bite injury treated in the emergency room varies from and within subregions in pattern and potential risk of transmission of rabies. This variation has implications in its morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and pattern of dog bite injuries treated in a teaching hospital emergency room setting of a developing country.This was a retrospective study of the entire patients with dog bite injury treated in the emergency room of Federal Teaching...
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This project essay discusses the climate problems of the Gambia, the smiling coast of Africa and the various damages these are causing the ecological environments, especially in the coastal settlement areas. Such damages have resulted in the worsening degradations that have brought untold hardships that have unleashed hunger and starvation on the people, including farm and fishing sites that have been washed ashore, leaving the rural people to be more vulnerable in the future, should steps...
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The paper examines the issue of financial inclusion in South Africa by analysing the likelihood of ownership of a bank account of an adult individual by race, education and income. Although racial segregation in South Africa was ended on May 10th, 1994, there is still considerable evidence that self-employed and entrepreneurs' successes are related to their ethnic groups. The paper examines how likely it is that higher education, after controlling for income, increase awareness of financial...
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The paper examines the issue of financial inclusion in South Africa by analysing the likelihood of ownership of a bank account of an adult individual by race, education and income. Although racial segregation in South Africa was ended on May 10th, 1994, there is still considerable evidence that self-employed and entrepreneurs' successes are related to their ethnic groups. The paper examines how likely it is that higher education, after controlling for income, increase awareness of financial...
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Aim/Purpose: This study examines the influence of Performance Expectancy (PE), Effort Expectancy (EE), and Facilitating Conditions (FC) on the use of smart phones for mobile learning by postgraduate students in University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Background: Due to the low level of mobile learning adoption by students in Nigeria, three base constructs of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model were used as factors to determine smart phone use for mobile learning by...
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Education on HIV infection, prevention, and treatment has the potential to improve young people’s knowledge on sexual health. Utilizing an ethnographic research approach, this study explored students’ perceptions of school-based HIV/AIDS education programs in three high schools in Western Kenya. Using a rights-based theoretical framework the authors sought to understand how such programs empower students to understand HIV vulnerability and prevention. This study contributes in two ways:...