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In Nigeria, students’ poor language skills have been documented at the three levels (primary, secondary and tertiary) of education. One of the factors contributing to the problem is the poor teaching methods adopted by many teachers in their classrooms. Many teachers have little or no professional training. They are unaware of new approaches that have been proven effective in developing students’ language skills and learning outcome in general. Studies have shown that teacher coaching...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is an instrument par excellence that a nation can rely upon to bring about self-reliance in an educational system. Therefore, there is the need to integrate ICT into teaching and learning; hence, the study investigated the assessment of Teachers’ and Students’ level of utilization of ICT tools for teaching and learning mathematics in Ilorin, Nigeria. The study was a descriptive research of the survey type. The population for the study was all...

This study was to measure the Van Hiele’s levels of geometric thinking attained by Ghanaian Junior High School Form 3 (JHS 3) students before writing the BECE. A quantitative research approach was employed in the study and a sample of 105 students randomly selected from the four schools. The results showed that 22 students (20.95%) of the students could not attain any VHG level at all, that means they were in level 0. 65 students (61.91%) of the students attained Van Hiele’s level 1, 17...

This study is quantitative and using a descriptive survey design to investigate the extent to which teachers in secondary school utilize the value components of the National Policy on Education for teaching/learning process in Kano State, Nigeria. A survey questionnaire was developed and validated to collect data that were analysed using SPSS 20. Similarly, research questions and formulated hypotheses were tested using inferential statistics. Findings revealed that, teachers do not utilize...

Evaluation of estimated glomerular filtration rate (egfr), serum creatinine, urea and electrolytes profile levels in diabetic patients attending medical outpatient clinic in Nnamdi Azikiwe University teaching hospital, Nnewi, Anambra State, Nigeria - IJCBR- Print ISSN No: - 2394-6369 Online ISSN No:- 2394-6377 Article

Le but de cet article est d’examiner de manière critique comment le sens des verbes et des noms en kiswahili est lié à l’usage. Je répondrai à la question de savoir comment l’utilisation des mots est liée au sens qui est élucidé, ceci en référence aux verbes et aux noms en kiswahili. De nombreux linguistes ont étudié le sens dans l’usage dans...

Climate change exacerbates the effects of water scarcity on livelihoods. Governments can intervene by structuring incentives for agricultural adaptations so that farmers can choose the ones that create more benefits for the society as a whole. This requires consideration of a range of different benefits to different groups within the social cost-benefit analysis (CBA). We assess the social and private profitability of two alternative tree-based adaptation techniques that have received state...

The aim of this study was to examine the influence of teachers’ demographic factors on their attitude towards inclusion of visually impaired students in the government secondary schools of Wolayta Zone in Ethiopia. A mixed method with triangulation design was employed. Purposive and multistage sampling techniques were used to select 420 sample participants. Data were collected through questionnaire and focus group discussion (FGD). Frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviation and...

The study investigated the differences in leadership styles exhibited by principals of public Colleges of Education in Ghana in relation to their sex, age, years of work experience, and academic qualification. The cross-sectional survey design was adopted for the study. The target population was made up of all 46 principals of public Colleges of Education in Ghana. The target population consisted of all 38 public Colleges of Education which were in existence before the absorption of eight...

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of body weight disorders among primary school learners in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.Materials and Methods: A school based cross-sectional survey was conducted among 876 primary school learners aged 9-14 years, using multistage sampling techniques.Body mass, stature and body mass index (BMI) were calculated.Results: Out of 876 participants, 61.8% were underweight, 32.3% were normal, 3.8% were overweight and 2.1%...

Background and Objective: Wheat and barley considered very important cereals for 100 millions of Egyptian population.Therefore, yield improving of some Egyptian varieties via genetic markers cereal crops under abiotic stresses drought and salinity is a crucial objective of this research.Materials and Methods: Five varieties of quadruple wheat were evaluated under salt stress and 14 varieties of barley were evaluated under drought stress to determine the genetic mechanisms related with...

Besides the undisputable role of literature in teaching civic virtues through exposing students to characters and themes that accurately exemplify and truly represent civility, teaching literature can serve a means to inculcate in students various civic skills, such as conflict resolution, leadership, negotiation of meaning and constructive criticism.Yet, to attain such skills, teachers need to reshape their teaching practices to be in conformity with the principles of modern education that...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of senior management training on transfer of learning among public officers trained by Kenya school of Government by establishing whether training interventions yield corresponding increase in the level of trainees’ knowledge, skills and attitude. F-test was used to find out whether there was any variance within the pretest and posttest samples, paired sample t- test and analysis of variance was used to statistically determine...

The purpose of this study is to discuss the enhancement of technology in education through authentic learning in science and technical education in the case of Nigeria.The authors reviewed numerous academic journals and books on authentic learning, science and technical education in order to support their position.The study is concerned with the challenges of the slow pace of technological development in Nigeria amidst the global burgeoning of science and technology.The authors attributed...

Neurotransmission represents a key concept in the history of biology. The objective of this study is to elicit Moroccan university students‟ conceptions of neurotransmission and highlight potential difficulties and obstacles that may hinder its effective learning. A questionnaire was administered to 120 science students as a pre-test. After the neurotransmission course at Dhar El Mahraz Faculty of Science, the same questionnaire was re-administered. The results of the study appeared that the...

Les méthodes d’enseignement des langues locales évoluent à telle enseigne qu’elles utilisent dorénavant les TIC comme partie intégrante du processus d’apprentissage. Cette étude vise à évaluer le développement de l’autonomie parmi les élèves de quatrième (4 e ) dans un établissement public du secondaire. L’accent est mis sur le...

The rate of unemployment among youths in Nigeria has assumed a worrisome dimension. More importantly that those affected are specialized graduates from tertiary institutions. The youth unemployment rate has been of persitent increase since 2014 from from 11.7% to 36.5% in 2018. It has been established that the vacancies exists, but the graduates lack the skills to match the jobs. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to identify the constructs and sub-constructs of employability skills that...