BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The world is increasingly becoming more and more complex on daily basis. A person needs to behave in competent ways if he or she is to maximise the opportunities that come his or her way. There are different dimensions of competence and each individual manifests in different ways. For instance, academic competence may involve the mastery of some learning tasks while behavioural competence may take the form of maintaining control over external events. Social competence,...
ABSTRACT Homework is a task that teachers assign to students to be completed outside the class time. It is an important tool for enhancing instruction as it is designed to reinforce what students have already learned and to prepare them for upcoming lessons and tasks. Various endevour have been employed to improve performance in mathematics including homework which teachers give to students at various amounts and frequencies. However, research done so far does not give guidance on the amount ...
ABSTRACT Information Communication Technology (ICT) is perceived as a catalyst for change in teaching styles, learning approaches and accessing information in the world. It can be used to analyze, present information in the classroom, to facilitate delivery of instructions and learning process. ICT enables access to ideas and experience from a wide range of people, communities and cultures. It is for this reason that most countries have integrated ICT into their teaching in elementary schools...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effectiveness of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive Therapy on managing abused widows' psychosocial problems such as depression and anxiety. A total of 200 widows with age not more than fifty and must have been widowed for not more than 5 years were drawn from South-East geo-political zone of Nigeria and used for the final sample. They were made up of 40 widows from each of the states i.e. Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo States respectiv...
ABSTRACT Basic education is very critical in any education system because of the crucial role it plays in catalyzing national development. Consequently, maintaining a high student enrolment at this level should be a priority for all countries. The Constituency Bursary Fund (CBF) was established by the government of Kenya through an Act of Parliament in 2003. The purpose of this study was to investigate equity in bursary allocation in relation to internal efficiency of secondary schools in Bun...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of teacher related factors on students‟ performance in KCSE in public secondary schools in Kibwezi Sub County. Four research objectives guided the study. The objectives sought to establish the influence of teacher job satisfaction on students performance in KCSE exam, determine the influence of teacher motivation on students performance, assess the influence of teacher professional qualification on students performance in KC...
ABSTRACT Effective internal supervision of curriculum is necessary for educational institutions to offer quality education to learners. Thus head teachers should possess requisite knowledge, skills and attitude in curriculum supervision. In Bungoma West Sub-County low academic achievement is an issue in most public primary schools. This is attributed to various factors, with inefficiency in internal curriculum supervision often mentioned by stakeholders in the Sub-County as one of the factors...
ABSTRACT Family processes affect the socio-emotional functioning of children and especially those living in poor families and families experiencing economic decline. Children of single mothers are at substantially higher risk than children of two parent families in experiencing socio-emotional problems. Increasing numbers and proportions of children born outside marriage and the rise in divorce rate have contributed to increased proportions of children growing up in single motherhood families...
ABSTRACT School attachment is an important component of teacher education. Public universities have thus designed their own rules and regulations that guide school attachment practices to enable student teachers put into practice the theory they have learnt. However, school attachment practices by teacher training institutions remain a contentious issue. The purpose of this study was to establish the effect of school attachment practices on student teacher performance in teaching practice in ...
ABSTRACT Non-teaching staff are central in school management, in terms of formulation and implementation of programmes in secondary schools. Non teaching staff provide support services in management of schools and are recruited and remunerated by school management. The existing labour laws and policy directives from the government stipulates opportunities available for employees. The labour laws are meant to enhance management of school programmes and non-teaching staff in public secondary sc...
This paper examines librarian-faculty collaboration in selected academic libraries in Lagos State, Nigeria. Simple random sampling method was used to select five out of a total population of nine higher institutions in Lagos State. Questionnaire was used as the major instrument for data gathering among librarians in the selected institutions. The study found that librarians are willing to collaborate with faculty in the areas of providing Current Awareness Services (CAS), working with accredi...
ABSTRACT School Feeding Program (SFP) was actualized in Kenya in 1980 by the public authority of Kenya in a joint effort with World Food Program (WFP). Dinners gave at schools improve quality training that adds to the monetary advancement of a nation. The examination analyzed connection among SFPs and students' learning productivity in open grade schools in Kitui County. The investigation evaluated students' maintenance, participation, change from a class to another and enrolment. Old style L...
Background to the Study The modern foundation of adult education in Nigeria was laid by the British in 1941, in the account of Anyanwu (1980:17-18). He states that the outbreak of the Second World War brought a change in the attitudes of the British Government towards literacy education. His Majesty's Government decided to extend education to a large number of Nigerians. Then, on the 13" of July 1943, the British House of Commons was formally informed by Mr. Arthur Creech-Jones, the Secretary...
ABSTRACT This paper discusses the automation of University of Lagos library records using The Information Navigator Library Software (TINLIB) and now Graphical Library Automation Systems (GLAS) software with some analysis of the cataloguing module. It discusses the rationale behind the change from TINLIB to GLAS by assessing the features, strength and weakness of both software. Plan for future development is discussed and Nigeria university libraries using the same software are advised to fo...
ABSTRACT The study examined the effect of augmenting physical skills practice (PSP) with psychological skills training (PST) for performance enhancement in sports among International School Students, Lagos. Forty (40) participants consisting of early adolescent boys and girls were randomly selected from a population of three hundred and fifty (350) students and were randomly put into two groups – one experimental and one control group. The Johnson and Leillich Basketball test in Mathews (1...