ABSTRACT This study was carried out to determine the effectiveness of two behaviour modification strategies, namely: the Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and the Social Learning Theory (SLT) on the management of psychosocial problems of street-beggars in a destitute centre in Lagos metropolis. The participants in the study comprised 120 (60 men and 60 women) able bodied destitute and street beggars who were randomly selected in a destitute centre in Lagos metropolis. The instruments ...
ABSTRACT This study was focused on the effect of role modeling on secondary school girls' attitude, interest and science related career choice. The research design employed was a pre-test, post-test control group design. The sample consisted of 500 female students randomly selected from ten secondary schools in Lagos State. Data was gathered and analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The findings from the study indicated that 'Printed Role Modeling' and 'Video Role Modellin...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effect of literacy approaches on the socio- economic life of migrant fishermen in Lagos State. It examined the extent to which some identified approaches would promote literacy acquisition among the Migrant Fishermen, and how their personal variables like sex, age, marital status and level of education influenced their literacy acquisition. A total number of one hundred and sixty fishermen were selected from Badagry, Ibeju-Lekki, Epe and Amuwo-Odofin Local...
ABSTRACT Since some secondary schools are known to offer guidance services to their students in Bendel State, it is logical to expect that certain benefits are likely to be derived by the beneficiaries. Already, there is a growing awareness in Nigeria about the usefulness of these services but there is a dearth of concrete date for assessing the role fulfilled by counselling in the growth and development of secondary school students. It is also known that some Nigerians do not believe in the ...
ABSTRACT In Nigeria as in cost countries, the primary emphasis is devoted to the development of Cognitive processes of the child. Much time and money is spent in writing curriculum guides, selecting textbooks, providing facilities, and designing building to ensure meeting this col. By comparison affective development and more specifically, the positive growth of self-esteem and school adjustment is not approached in any systematic way. In too many schools, the importance of a pupil's affectiv...
ABSTRACT This study was primarily aimed at investigating the social, economic and psychological problems of unmarried teenage mothers and factors that will influence unmarried teenage mothers' re-entry into continuing education programmes in Lagos State. It is equally important to note that social and psychological problems in this study refer to the problems associated with self-esteem, family and peer relationships encountered by the unmarried teenage mothers. Also investigated were the eco...
ABSTRACT It was observed that students' performance for more than a decade both in internal and external examinations had been deteriorating even though the schools were staffed with qualified professional teachers. Thus there was a need to examine the relationship between teacher performance indicators and student academic achievement in Lagos State public senior secondary (SS) schools which is the concern of this study. Using the school as a unit of analysis, the entire population of SS 2 t...
Abstract Pour microorganisms were isolated from rotted onion bulbs, purple variety, purchased from markets in the Lagos State of Nigeria. Three of them were pathogenic they produced soft rot when wound-inoculated into healthy onion bulbs. The microorganisms were identified as Pseudomonas cepacia Buckholder, Candida utilis (Henneberg) Lodder and Kreger-Van Rig and Pseudomonas fluorescens Migula; the last being the most pathogenic of the three. A study of the effect of infection 10 of the nutri...
ABSTRACT In both the United States of America and the United Kingdom, Social Studies emerged towards the turn of the century in response to the problems created by industrialisation. Faced with similar prospects, Nigeria introduced Social Studies into the curricula of her educational institutions in the early 1970s. Up till now, however, the objectives, context and methods of the subject have not been clearly defined in the Nigerian context, and the extent of its diffusion down the educationa...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the status of administrative use of computers in secondary schools in South-West Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was used carry out the assessment. The study sample consists of 24 four public schools and 16 private schools in Lagos State, and 44 public schools and 15 private schools in Ogun State selected randomly. Ten basic administrative duties and eight selected school characteristics were used as the basis for the assessment. A model was proposed...
ABSTRACT The shortcomings in students' performances in the literature examination at the West African School Certificate level have been found to be underlined by teaching deficiencies. These deficiencies could, in turn, be remedied by certain basic strategies for teaching. The study has postulated that a combination of Stylistic Analysis and Literary Criticism be adopted as a frame of reference for developing teaching plans for literature. It is also believed that if the teachers were to con...
ABSTRACT This study was designed to investigate the teacher's role perception and the expectation of this role by the teacher and his reference groups in selected secondary schools in Ondo State. A Questionnaire called STRES probed respondents' expectations regarding instructional, social/civic, guidance/counselling, management and personality roles of the teacher. It was hypothesised that there would be no significant differences in teachers' role perceptions and the expectations of such rol...
ABSTRACT The study examined resource quality and service delivery in four universities in South East Nigeria by ascertaining their accreditation status as well as the teacher-student ratios by various programmes taught in those institutions. It also examined the availability and adequacy of classroom communication materials; physical facilities as well as the number of lecturers in relation to teaching effectiveness. Furthermore, the study also ascertained how lecturers’ professional devel...
ABSTRACT In first-language and second language acquisition, the training of oracy skills before literacy skills ensures a natural, efficient learning process. The development of oracy skills should embrace the formal and informal varieties of English. The present study attempts to identify clusters of stylistic features of Register in Oral Discourse by native-English students on the one hand and second language speakers of English on the other hand, It discovers that native-English students i...
ABSTRACT The study examined the psycho-socioeconomic factors that motivate women's participation in NGO's non-formal education programmes in Lagos state of Nigeria. In view of this, the study identified the various non-formal education programmes organized by NGOs in which women participate in Lagos State as well as the psychological, social and economic factors which motivated the women to participate in such programmes. In addition, the study investigated the demographic characteristics of ...