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This study examined the Impact of Instructional Supervision on Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Nasarawa State with reference to Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE). Five research questions were used to guide the study to a rational conclusion. Descriptive Survey method was adopted in which Instructional Supervision and Students’ Academic Performance Questionnaire (ISSAPQ) were used to obtain relevant data from 92 teachers in 37 selected Senior Secondary...

Oral health professionals are important in smoking cessation and prevention as their role is very crucial given the impact of smoking on oral health. Therefore, dental professionals need adequate education in tobacco use prevention and cessation skills to increase their confidence and be able to help patients to quit smoking. This study was aimed at determining the impact of an educational intervention on the attitudes, willingness, and perceived barriers of a group of Nigerian dental...

ii CO-AUTHORSHIP STATEMENT iii ACKNOWLDGEMENTS .iv TABLE OF CONTENTS ....vi LIST OF APPENDICES viii CHAPTER ONE 1 Background and Significance 2 Literature Review 6 Literature Review Summary 9 Statement of Purpose 9 Research Questions 9 Declaration of Self 10 References 11 CHAPTER TWO .18 Background .18 Literature Review 20 Literature Review Summary .27 Statement of Purpose 28 Research Questions .28 Findings .34 Discussion .44 Strengths and Limitations .52

As a result of globalization of digital technology, intellectual discourse on what constitute the basic body of architectural knowledge to be imparted to future professionals has been on the increase. This digital revolution has brought to the fore the need to review the already overloaded architectural education curriculum of Nigerian schools of architecture to have substantial computing content. This paper seeks to propose a new framework of integrating teaching of CAAD into curriculum of...

As a result of globalization of digital technology, intellectual discourse on what constitute the basic body of architectural knowledge to be imparted to future professionals has been on the increase. This digital revolution has brought to the fore the need to review the already overloaded architectural education curriculum of Nigerian schools of architecture to have substantial computing content. This paper seeks to propose a new framework of integrating teaching of CAAD into curriculum of...

Postgraduate medical training is essential in the development of specialist manpower in health care delivery services. In this paper, postgraduate residency training in Nigeria was examined with highlights on the problems involved and the prospects Keywords : Postgraduate, Residency, Medical, Nigeria, Training.

The study investigated the effect of constructivist teaching method on students’ achievement in French listening comprehension in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria. Achievement in French listening comprehension over the years has been discouraging. The conventional method of teaching French Language has not improved the achievement of students in French Listening comprehension, hence the purpose of this study. It used a pre-test, post-test non-equivalent control group...

This report explores concepts that had emerged, grown, or diminished in teachers’ cultural perceptions of the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Nigerian schools. Five Nigerian school teachers who were enrolled in a doctoral programme at a Malaysian university participated in this study that used a qualitative method with a case study strategy. Interviews were employed to collect data about teachers’ cultural perceptions of the use of ICT in Nigerian schools. Findings...

A new procedure for estimating promotion, repetition and dropout rates for learners in South African schools is proposed. The procedure uses three different data sources: data from the South African General Household survey, data from the Education Management Information Systems, and data from yearly reports published by the Department of Basic Education. The data from the General Household survey are utilised to estimate repetition rates for learners in three different age groups. Keeping...

This paper focuses on University of Johannesburg (UJ) students’ views on remaining in or leaving South Africa. These views are based on the degree of trust students perceive the government (broadly defined) to be worthy of, and the degree of engagement in the affairs of the country that students are prepared to expend in the context of perceived threats to South African citizens. A survey of 1214 undergraduate students on all four UJ campuses was conducted in 2011. Care was taken that the...

A B S T R A C T Entrepreneurial creativity and innovation, the key elements needed for sustainability at all levels could be learnt either formally or informally. Therefore, Entrepreneurship Education is critical to successful enterprise setting due primarily to the fact that enterprise setting devoid of entrepreneurship education has greater chances of failure due to poor preparation for the challenges linked with business start-ups. The thrust of this piece of write-up is to examine the...

The newly invented short message service (SMS) communication occasioned by the emergence of mobile telephones is a new phenomenon in communication. This form of communication oftentimes disregards the basic rules of English grammar especially among youths and this has raised a major worry for the society in recent times. This concern is that SMS communication is gradually taking over written communication and indirectly jeopardizing students’ usage of the Standard English language in their...

The profession of teaching is and should be considered as one of the most important in all countries.The reason is that any skill, be it technical or social, is acquired from teaching and learning process.Therefore, training teachers should be done with respect to profile of the person needed.In this article, we investigated some aspects of the South African education system with regard to faculties or colleges of education curriculum, teacher, micro-teaching lessons, and placement...

The rapid increase in primary enrollment seen in many developing countries might worsen schooling quality. I estimate the effect of enrollment growth following the removal of primary school fees in Tanzania and find that it led to large increases in the pupil-teacher ratio and a reduction in observable teacher quality, but rule out a substantial effect on test scores overall. These results are robust to instrumenting enrollment growth using predetermined fertility and migration decisions,...

1DB713A9A7CE4901PQ/1?accountid=11225 Irvine, J. (2003). Educating teachers for diversity: Seeing with a cultural eye. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.