ABSTRACT The family context for child development has for ages remained one of the most important contributors to the quality of child development where marital stability stays at the core of this context. The study assessed effectiveness of premarital education towards marital stability and parenting in Tanzania based on experiences from the Sandawe community in Dodoma. It had five objectives which were: i) To ascertain premarital education practices adopted towards marital stability in the ...
Abstract This article proposes strategies for designing and evaluating curriculum materials for enhancing English language grammatical competence among Form One learners in Tanzanian secondary schools. Using quasi-experimental and phenomenological designs, the authors developed an exemplary Learner Centered Instructional Grammar Material (LCIGM) focusing on Form One learners. Materials design approach and Constructivism Theory of learning guided the exercise. The data for the study were colle...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate the roles of school boards in managing teachers discipline problems in secondary schools, where Rorya District was taken as a case study. The study was guided by McGregor Theory X and Y. The study adopted across sectional survey design. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to obtain five (5) schools and fifty six (56) respondents respectively. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods by the use ...
ABSTRACT This study reports on the material that were designed for enhancing students‟ attitude towards Mathematics through learner centered approach in Tanzania secondary schools. The main purpose was to support the implementation of Competence Based Curriculum in Form Two Mathematics syllabus. Constructivismwas usedto guide the design of instructional learning activities. The study concerted and adapteda quasiexperiment and phenomenology designs using an intervention and control schools. ...
ABSTRACT Many developing countries recognised the importance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education for teaching and learning. In Namibia ICT use in the classroom remains limited. The purpose of this study was to investigate the Namibian Life Science teachers’ use of ICT in their classrooms to promote collaborative and creative teaching. Activity theory was used as a lens to interprete Life Science teachers’ use of ICT. Activity theory promotes technological creati...
ABSTRACT Reading with comprehension is a matter of concern in Namibian schools. To read with understanding, reading comprehension strategies should explicitly be taught to learners. Six reading comprehension strategies were identified by researchers as effective in improving reading comprehension. The purpose of this study was to find out whether teachers are acquainted with a range of reading comprehension strategies, whether they are explicitly teaching them and whether they are trained in ...
ABSTRACT Purpose Integration and use of technology in teaching and learning in the education sector from pre-primary education (PPE) to the higher levels of education, is a policy issue. In developed countries, including Tanzania, information and communication technology (ICT), especially in PPE, is inadequately researched for laying evidence on its applicability in instruction and learning. Therefore, this paper aims to determine pre-primary teachers’ preparedness in integrating ICT in cla...
ABSTRACT Climate change is an environmental challenge that needs urgent attention. It is for this reason it is taught in Social Studies at the Junior Secondary School level to impart environmental knowledge. Literature was largely descriptive survey on awareness, perception and attitude to climate change without considering instructional interventions. This study determined the effects of mentoring and field study instructional strategies on students‘ learning outcomes in climate change con...
ABSTRACT The traditional instructional strategies employed by most physics teachers in teaching the subject has consistently led to low student achievement. Hence there is need to employ new instructional strategies such as problem-based learning (PBL) and interactive invention (IIS) instructional strategies, particularly, among the NCE pre-service teachers in Nigeria. The two strategies have been proved in the literature to help in alleviating the problem of low student achievement in physic...
ABSTRACT Mathematics is viewed as the basis for science and technology as well as a tool for achieving scientific and technological development. Despite the importance to human activities and development, students generally view Mathematics as being an abstract subject. This has resulted in poor performance in the subject arising from the poor instructional strategies adopted in its teaching. Many studies attempting to find a solution to this problem but only a few had focused on such strateg...
ABSTRACT English is indispensable in communication and it is a tool for learning in Nigeria. Many secondary school students perform poorly in English Language examinations because of their deficient knowledge of English grammar which in turn leads to their inability to write good composition. The use of conventional instructional strategies for learning has failed to address this problem in Ibadan metropolis. However, less attention has been paid to the use of Direct and Indirect explicit gra...
ABSTRACT Female students‘ enrolment and completion in university education in Nigeria was low between 2001-2010. These have been attributed to some personal, home and social factors which have inhibited many females from being enrolled and completing university education in some courses. Previous studies examined the link between these factors and low female enrolment and completion at the primary and secondary school levels without focusing on Science Education, Engineering, Agriculture, L...
ABSTRACT Computers enhance the process of understanding when used for teaching and learning. This made the Nigerian Government to introduce computer studies into the basic education curriculum. However, the content and activities in the computer basic curriculum are centred mostly around browsing and clicking and not on programming as many believed that programming is for adults. This study, therefore, developed a Language of Graphics Orientation (LOGO) instructional package and investigated ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated effects of Freewriting Brainstorming Instructional Strategies (FBIS) and Questioning Brainstorming Instructional Strategies (QBIS) on Junior Secondary School (JSS) students’ learning outcomes in Basic Science in Osun State, Nigeria. The moderating effects of gender and personality traits were also examined. The pretest-posttest, control group, quasi experimental design involving 3x2x2 factorial matrix was employed. The research population comprised all the J...
ABSTRACT English-Yoruba translation, which is a compulsory course for pre-service teachers in colleges of education is an important aspect of Yoruba language studies. However, reports show that there is a gross student under-achievement in it. This has been traced to ineffective strategies adopted in teaching translation to the pre-service teachers; hence the need to adopt strategies that can cater for these deficiencies. Two of such strategies are bilingual and peer-tutoring which are learne...