Your search

This study investigated the relationship between computer attitudes and literacy of science teachers in secondary schools in Nigeria.A sample of two hundred and forty (240) science teachers drawn from the four political divisions of Ogun State, Nigeria was used for the study.Two valid and reliable instruments namely Computer Attitude Scale (CAS) and Computer Literacy Self-Assessment Scale (CLSAS) were used to collect the needed data.Frequency, count, mean, standard deviation and Pearson...

Creativity has been mentioned prominently in Nigeria's objectives for teacher education in the National Policy on Education for over 30 years.Still, one is worried that teacher education institutions appear to inadequately foster the spirit of creativity in the students.The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which creativity was enhanced in teacher education curriculum delivery in Anambra State based on the views of students.Three research questions were formulated and...

The non-challant attitudes of the Nigerian teachers and parents to the challenges of curriculum development and educational achievement have created a great gap between the school-teaching-learning programme and the achievement of educational goals.The instrument and strength of change for sustainable development, stable educational policies, and viable educational achievement depends on the virtues of competent professionally dynamic teachers, parental sensitivity to the child's academic...

This action research was conducted in 2007 with these aims: to discover the stressors to active students’ participation in classroom; attempt solving the identified stressors immediately; and to design some mitigating measures for both short term and long term solutions. Although Ethiopian Ministry of Education stresses the need for employing interactive teaching methods, this has been frustrated due to number of problems. The glaring ones are: unpreparedness of teachers to change their...

Abstract Poverty reduction strategy (PRS) processes have often failed to address the needs and interests of persons with disabilities. Without their inclusion, however, developmental strategies are unlikely to meet their goals. Three projects in Cambodia, Tanzania and Vietnam have fostered participation of persons with disabilities and their organisations in the PRS of their respective countries. This study examines the inclusive dimension of PRS processes and reviews the relationship...

The paper is a survey of reading in selected secondary schools in Oyo State, Nigeria.It covered schools selected across the three senatorial zones of the State.In undertaking the study, the researcher with the support of research assistants first observed the teachers and students in the schools in their reading activities and later administered a self-designed questionnaire on them.The questionnaire sought information on the reading related activities of teachers and students as well as the...

Teacher education is an important enterprise because no education can rise above the quality of its teachers.The number of physics teachers is not as desired in Nigerian secondary schools.Many schools do not have physics teachers (Omosewo and Salami, 2002).For this reason, teachers that were teaching integrated science did not teach the physics aspect of the subject.Therefore, very few students offer physics at the senior school level because physics was strange (since they were not taught...

This paper evaluated the appropriateness of teaching English language in some selected secondary schools in both Urban (Ile-Ife) and Rural (Ibodi) areas respectively of former Oranmiyan and Atakunmosa Local Government Areas of Osun state, Nigeria.150 Senior Secondary School students whose ages ranged from seventeen years six months to eighteen years three months were used for the study.Also investigated were the attitudes of the teachers to the philosophy and implementation of the new...

The paper examines the professional training of Principals of secondary schools in Nigeria. The study observes that teaching experience appears to be the major yardstick that is being used currently to promote teachers to the rank of school Principals in the country. After drawing experiences from some other countries on how Principals are trained and appointed, the paper concludes that teaching experience should not be the only yardstick for appointing Principals of secondary schools in...

The importance of a college degree in the United States is becoming increasingly apparent. There is an emerging difference in the overall earning potential of those with high school diplomas and those with bachelor's degrees (Mortenson, 2005; Perna, 2003). Despite the importance of higher education being present in the minds of many Americans, poor retention and graduation rates for African American students, particularly males, persist in universities. The nationwide average for African...

Rather than paying attention to the specific approaches emerging from different contexts, current debates tend to privilege Western-universalizing concepts of internationalisation, unproblematically accepted as globally established truths. In South Africa, where the legacy of isolation and the dominance of Eurocentricism in academia have inspired considerable scepticism regarding internationalisation, the challenge is to find innovative approaches that account for its specific context. This...

Tracking students into different classrooms according to their prior academic performance is controversial among both scholars and policymakers. If teachers find it easier to teach a homogeneous group of students, tracking could enhance school effectiveness and raise test scores of both low- and high-ability students. But if students benefit from learning with higher-achieving peers, tracking could disadvantage lower-achieving students, thereby exacerbating inequality. Debates over tracking...

ED-MEDIA 2009. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 22 - 26, 2009

This paper is generally concerned with the outcomes of the workshop conducted under the project program with the cooperation of Kansai University, Japan and United Nation Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in respect of quality improvement of Palestinian refugees’ schools (UNRWA schools) in Syria. The workshop aims to support UNRWA in order to promote ICT with Learner Centered Approach (LCA) in Palestinian refugees’ school teaching-learning practices. In the workshop, problem-based learning and...

Kingdom, O Christ, is a Kingdom of all ages, and Thy dominion from to generation (i) The immediate and controlling aim in all Missionary work is the awakening of faith in individual souls, and the raising up of a community of Christian believers. In this sense education has from the beginning been an important department of missionary work. I attach very great importance to our Schools as one of the best means of sowing the seed of the Word of God with the hearts of the rising of Moslems....

It is a known fact that education is instrument for economic empowerment and development of sustainable economy. No wonder, one of national education goals is the acquisition of appropriate skills and development of mental, physical and social abilities and competencies as equipment for individual to live and contribute to development of society (FRN, 2004 pg 8). Nwangwu (2007) opined that what children learn, retain and practice after leaving school has direct impact on nation's...

Social studies as a subject encourages the development of socio-civic and personal-behaviour. Its focus is on the affective domain of learning. It would be necessary to ascertain success of instruction through an appropriate evaluation of this domain . Literature has highlighted possible problems in the assessment of this domain of learning. Pierre and Oughton (2007) claim that many college outlines and lesson plans with affective outcomes fail to indicate how these will be taught and...

Among adolescents in Africa and in the rest of the world, unprotected sexual intercourse is the primary cause of HIV transmission. There is limited information on population based study of adolescents who are not-in-school. A quantitative and qualitative study was conducted among adolescents aged 10–19 ( n = 483, mean age = 16.6) in the Ashanti region of Ghana on sexual behavior, condom use, and peer norms regarding sexuality. Age of sexual debut was younger for those in-school. However,...