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Incidences of teacher stress are on the increase and seriously impacting on the quality of the educational system. This study investigated the relationship between teachers’ job stress and secondary school teachers’ effectiveness in South Western Nigeria. This study adopted the descriptive survey design. Three research questions and one null hypothesis were formulated. The study sample comprised 720 teachers and 1,440 students drawn from 144 secondary schools in four states in South Western...

The sheer growth of information and communication technologies (ICT) has reshaped teaching and learning practices tremendously in the learning environments all over the globe. Research reveals that teachers are the key agents in the integration of ICT in particular in language teaching and learning. However, some of the many factors, this ICT integration are associated with teachers’ personal characteristics such as gender. Therefore, the current study investigates the Moroccan male and...

This study investigated relationship between self-evaluation, self- reflection and academic achievement among NCE students in Zamfara state. The correlational research design was used for the study. The population of the study was 9,839 whereas 312 students were selected by means of proportionate stratified random sampling techniques. Two instruments were used for the study. One was an adopted Academic Self-regulated Learning Questionnaire (A-SRL-S) with established content and criterion...

This paper investigated the English academic requirements of Moroccan computer engineering students at the National School of Applied Sciences in Berrechid. Questionnaires were the major data collection method used in this study. Data were collected from 32 undergraduate computer engineering students. The results of the study indicated that the perceptions of computer engineering students toward English learning are highly favorable. The findings alsorevealed that these students have...

Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a serious and highly contagious viral disease. It constitutes a public health threat and emergency. Therefore, all medical staff, notably medical students, should be trained to lessen the health outcomes during an outbreak.

This study examines principals’ supervisory role and teachers’ job performance in upper basic schools in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Correlational research design was employed. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 322 respondents comprising of 13 principals and 309 teachers from a population of 36 principals and 1,577 teachers respectively. Data collection was carried out using two research instruments titled “Principals’ Supervisory Role Questionnaire (PSRQ)” and “Teachers’ Job...

This study assessed the role of Environmental Education as a tool for the creation of awareness on adaptation to climate change in Nigeria. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Five research questions and five hypotheses were raised and formulated respectively for analyses and testing in the study. The population of the study comprised of all public primary, secondary, and tertiary institutions as well as rural and urban settlers in the six (6) geopolitical zones...

The health sector remains a vital tool for sustainable development of any nation and therefore investment in this sector cannot be overemphasized. The present state of Primary Health Care (PHC) system in Nigeria is alarming, with only about 20% out of the 30,000 PHC facilities relatively distributed throughout the 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs) across Nigeria working partially. This study examines government expenditure on primary health care in Nigeria as well as its relations to real...

Discipline from time immemorial has never been a soft landing for any teachers. The need andprocedureof discipline has not been welcomed by some of the students. Secondary schools inherit indiscipline problem from the primary school or families where the child come from. The study investigated indiscipline among senior secondary school students in Biu Education Zone, Borno State, Nigeria. The target populations are teachers and students with the total population of 1579 teacher and 10, 578...

Meningitis is a huge public health concern in Nigeria. In this paper, we attempted to use data from patient's clinic records between 2009 and 2018 to predict future incidence of meningitis in Nigeria [4]. Five machine learning methods, namely, logistic regression, k-nearest neighbors (KNNs), random forests, support vector machine (SVMs) and neural networks (NNs) were adopted to build prediction models and their accuracy of prediction were compared. Machine learning models built in this study...

Creativity is a field of immense importance that is rooted right from the appearance of human being on earth for the purpose of fighting hunger, self-defense, and shelter and generally for his survival on earth. No society can successfully succeed without making it effort in inventing some new ideas for the sustenance of its citizenry. As such creativity is a field of great importance in our life. This is because there is no part of our life that has not been directly or indirectly...

This study was to investigate the factors that influence new college of education principals during transition. The study employed descriptive research design and data was collected from ten respondents from public colleges in Ghana. The findings showed that actions and decisions of the principals during their transitions were influenced by four categories of factors which were: internal factors, internal individuals, external factors and external individuals. However, the actions and...

This article describes the development and implementation process of an innovative 10-year partnership that draws on the strengths of existing community-based rehabilitation programs to support new education and leadership development activities in Ethiopia. Current global estimates indicate that over 17 million people may be affected by disability in Ethiopia. The national population projection for 2017 indicates that approximately 80 per cent of the population resides in underserved rural...

Among the pandemics that have affected human existence, the Covid-19 virus with uncertain genesis has deracinated the natural structure and cycle of everything around us. Education and especially children's social life has been jeopardized forcing us to find new ways of doing things in the quest to survive. This study investigated the effect of covid-19 on education from the perspective of primary and high school children staying at home in Ghana. Due to the pandemic, the descriptive study...

This study aimed at assessing the management of examination malpractice in selected Technical Education Vocational Entrepreneurship (TEVET) institutions on the Copperbelt Province. Therefore, the study was designed to investigate the forms of examination malpractice, assess the causes of examination malpractice, examine the effectiveness of the TEVETA examination guidelines in curbing examination malpractice, determine the challenges faced in curbing malpractice and establish measures to...

The nursing profession is characterized by the fact that a significant amount of time is spent on competency-related activities. The assessment of clinical competence is, therefore, an important issue in nursing education and the utilization of objective structured clinical evaluation for that purpose was considered to be very important in this study. The objective of this research was to find out the levels of knowledge and attitudes of second-year student nurses with regard to the...

This article investigated the institutional characteristics of the School of Medicine of the University of Zambia and how the characteristics has contributed to academic performance. A mixed methods approach involving qualitative and quantitative methods was employed to investigate the correlation between institutional characteristics and academic performance. An explanatory sequential research design was used. Data were captured using an evaluation survey instrument, students’ Focus Group...

Our thesis sought to find out how students use ICT as part of their university learning activities at UCAO UUT in Togo. This research which an investigation of ways in which undergraduates and master’s students was use ICT in their school activities brought up questions about the relationship between the factors leading to ICT use and the different academic or educational uses. Our thesis focused on three main themes: 1. The use of ICT in relation to university learning activities; 2. The...