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ASSURING EDUCATIONAL QUALITY: SUPERVISORY APPROACHES IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF OYO STATE, NIGERIA
Get PDFThe study investigated supervisory approaches employed as means of ensuring quality control in the secondary education system. Survey research design of ex- post- facto type was used in carrying out the study. Stratified random sampling procedure was used to select 250 participants from the population of 9,000 teachers in Ibadan Municipality. A self-constructed questionnaire tagged ‘Supervisory Approaches Scale’ (SAS) was used to elicit relevant data from the respondents. Test- retest method of reliability yielded a coefficient of .78. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics and One Way Analysis of Variance. The findings revealed that classroom observation approach was the most frequently used supervisory approach with the highest mean of 2.7 while majority of the participants also preferred classroom visitation and observation as the most effective supervisory approach [F (2, 247) =8.900 P<0.05] The study recommended amongst other things that classroom visitation and observation should be employed in the supervisory activities
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ECONOMICS LECTURERS QUESTIONING ALLOWED WAIT-TIME IN FOUR FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH-WEST NIGERIA
Get PDFThe study examined comparative analysis of economics lecturers questioning allowed wait-time in four federal universities in the south-west Nigeria. The level of students’ response to questions in teaching-learning process depends on the time giving by the instructor for students to ruminate when faced with questions. The study adopted ex-post facto design of survey research type; forty (40) economics lecturers were observed, ten (10) lecturers each from the four university (University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University, University of Lagos, and Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta) who are handling the compulsory courses either as junior or senior lecturers were selected through two-stage sampling techniques from four sampled universities. One validated observation instrument was used to collect data for the study. This is: University Economics Lecturer Questioning Effectiveness Observation Sheet (? = 0.75). Three research questions were raised and answered. The data obtained were analysed using percentage count of descriptive statistics, t-test and Anova at 0.05 level of significance. The result revealed that in a typical economics lecture, the lecturer allowed three to four minutes for group of students to ruminate on higher-order questions, one to two minutes each for lower-order question to individual and group of students, one minute for higher-order question to individual student and follow-up questions attract least wait time. There was a significant mean difference in questioning wait-time allowed, between junior (X = 10.67, Sd = 0.816) and senior (X = 13.33, Sd = 2.08) lecturers. (t (39) = 2.880, P = 0.024). There was no significant mean difference in wait-time allowed among the observed economics lecturers by institutions except in higher-order questions to group of students (F (3, 36) = 4.506, p < 0.05). The paper recommended that: teaching effectiveness is likely going to be enhanced when enough wait-time is given to students and hence allowed for enhanced academic standard in critical thinking
INSURGENCY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS’ SAFETY IN NIGERIA’S NORTH-EAST REGION
Get PDFAn environment where there are incessant terrorist attacks cannot be conducive for effective academic activities and as such, little or no desired learning outcome should be expected in such area. On this premise, the need to create and maintain safe environment for effective teaching and learning becomes paramount. This paper focuses on the Boko-Haram insurgency, its effects on school safety and possible solutions to curtail the menace which affects smooth running of academic activities in the North-East Region of Nigeria. The pervasive effects of insurgency on school safety included: reduction in school attendance, migration of qualified teachers, destruction of school infrastructures, closure of schools and lack of concentration in class. The study recommended that preventive measures for the safety of students in schools included construction of high fence, installation of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras at strategic locations, intensifying security of the schools and provision of escape routes in case of an invasion.
 
BOKO HARAM AS A CANKERWORM OF BACKWARDNESS IN THE NORTHERN NIGERIA: IMPLICATIONS ON ADULT EDUCATION
Get PDFThe insecurity in the Northeast Nigeria in the last decades has brought a lot of hardships on the people. The schools have experienced more closures either as a result of industrial action by teachers and political crisis, a recent example is the insurgence of Boko Haram sect in the Northeast geo-political zone, which has led to the close down of schools in the region. The political patronage results in politicization of knowledge especially in the absence of clear educational policies and goals. The insecurity has led to closure of schools, thus affect literacy level of people particularly children and adults. Therefore, this study examined causes of Boko Haram terrorism and its effects on adult education. It was recommended that there is need for the government to earmark more fund to security aimed at combating the Boko-Haram insurgency. There is need to prevent re-occurrence of recent insurgency by ensuring a rational national planning and mass job or employment provision by the government to the youth
A PATH ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF SOME PSYCHO-SOCIAL VARIABLES AFFECTING CLASSROOM BEHAVIOUR OF TWICE EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA
Get PDFChildren experiencing twice exceptionality exhibit negative classroom behaviours which could be corrected as shown by literature with little consideration to psychological variables of such behaviours in Schools in Oyo State. The study adopted a survey research design of the ex-post facto type. One thousand one hundred and thirteen twice exceptional pupils were purposively selected from 33 public primary schools in Oyo State, Nigeria. Instruments used were: Slosson Intelligence Scale (r=0.82); Pupil Rating Scale (r=0.78); Anxiety Scale (r=0.72); Depression Scale (r=0.76); Loneliness Scale (r=0.72); Self-esteem Scale (r=0.72) and Negative Classroom Behaviour Questionnaire (r=0.89). Three research questions were raised and answered. Data were analysed using path analysis and multiple regressions. Self-esteem specifically had the greatest explanatory power (?=.146, t=4.438, p<0.05), followed by loneliness (?=.129, t=4.647, p<0.05), anxiety (?=.119, t=3.492, p<0.05), depression (?=.102, t=2.953, p<0.05). Consequently, the model is considered fit and tenable. Therefore, academic and behavioural intervention strategies should be promoted for the children to benefit maximally from
INFLUENCE OF DEMOGRAPHICS ON ON-THE-JOB-SUCCESS OF FEMALE CIVIL SERVANTS AFTER IN-SERVICE-TRAINING IN OYO AND OGUN STATES, NIGERIA
Get PDFThe need for workers’ training has increased because of technological advancement. In-service training enhances the performance of workers and engenders workers on-the-job-success. Skill acquisition and on-the-job-success remain at very low level for females. Also, there is little literature on in-service training and on-the-job-success. This study examined the extent to which the demographics (Age, Marital Status, Educational Qualification, Cadre and Socio-economic Status) influenced on-the-job-success of female civil servants after in-service training programme. The population for the study was all female civil servants on Ogun and Oyo states. Survey design was adopted and purposive sampling procedure was used to select 1,033 female civil servants that participated in in-service training. Data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation and multiple regression at p ? 0.05 significance level. Educational qualification (? = -.116, t (1026) = -3.10, p < 0.05), Socio-economic Status (? = 0.20, t (1026) = 4.95, p < 0.05) and Marital Status (?=-0.073, t=(1026)=0.035, p<0.05) correlated significantly with on-the-job-success of the female civil servants, while Age ( ? = -0.026, t (1026) = 0.069, p > 0.05), and Cadre (?=-0.035, t (1026) = 0.365, p>0.05) did not. Single women with low socio-economic status and low educational qualification performed better on their job. The study recommended that government should endeavour to sustain policies that can encourage younger and married women in civil service to participate in in-service training and engender increase their on-the-job success
AN INVESTIGATION INTO SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION AND USAGE
Get PDFThis paper examined the attitude of students to ICT in selected secondary schools in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State. In this study, 250 students were selected from 13 secondary schools. 120 were males and 130 were females. The instruments used had 25 statements relating to measurement of student’s attitude to ICT. There were 11 negative questions and 14 positive questions in the survey instrument used. The validated questionnaire was subjected to Cronbach’s Alpha reliability tool that yielded a value of 0.73. The research instrument used was Secondary School Students Attitude towards ICT Adoption and Usage Questionnaire (SSSAIAUQ). It was discovered that there was no significant difference between the male and female secondary school students’ attitude to ICT adoption and usage. Male students had a stronger positive attitude towards ICT usage with their female counterparts. Besides, students from urban schools had an equal positive attitude towards ICT usage than students from rural schools. Some of the recommendations are that National Policy on technological development should be put in place to assist in the proper take off development programme on ICT for the present generation. Accessibility to scientific data via internet and worldwide websites should be part of immediate step to be taken to improve the information needs and consciousness of the people. Younger people should be empowered through various programmes in the anticipation of the challenges in information and communication technology as a drive for a purposeful creativity
SPIRITUALITY AND EMPLOYEES’ WORK ATTITUDE IN SELECTED WORKPLACES IN OYO AND LAGOS STATES, NIGERIA
Get PDFThe spiritual paradigm that recognizes that people work not only with their hands, but also with their hearts or spirit, led to investigating whether spirituality have anything to do with employees work attitude in the workplace. The descriptive survey design of the ex-post-facto type was used for the study. The participants consist of respondents from the Ministry of Social Welfare and Women Development in the Civil Service of Oyo and Lagos States. The stratified sampling technique was used to put the ministry workers into junior, middle and management levels. Fifty respondents were randomly selected from each level to give a total of 150 from each state. A questionnaire tagged “Workplace Spirituality and Employees Work Attitude Questionnaire- WESEWAQ” with five sub-sections was used for data collection. Of the three hundred questionnaires administered, 252 were returned and used for analysis. Findings from the study showed that organization commitment, job involvement and intrinsic work satisfaction correlated significantly with meaningful work, sense of community and alignment of workplace values, while intention to quit does not correlate with meaningful work; sense of community correlated positively with the four aspects of worker’s attitude in the workplace. Furthermore, alignment of workplace values, an aspect of workplace spirituality, correlated positively with the four aspects of worker’s attitude in the workplace. It was recommended that industrial social workers should reinforce spirituality values of both management and employees by aligning management’s perception, employees’ perception to organizational perception of spirituality with the intent of encouraging positive performance and good work attitude from the employees
CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE CHALLENGES OF CAPACITY BUILDING AND EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE IN UNIVERSITIES OF TECHNOLOGY IN SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA
Get PDFThe study assessed the challenges of capacity building and employee performance, while it also examined the effect of training on performance of employees and determined the extent to which employee’s job performance was influenced by leadership style in selected Universities of Technology, in Southwestern, Nigeria. The research employed a Correlation Design, which was due to the nature of the research as it found out relationship that exists between the dependent variable (employee’s job performance) and the independent variable (Capacity building in organizations).Primary data were sourced through administration of questionnaire to obtain data from the respondents in four universities of technology in Southwestern Nigeria, namely: Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso (LAUTECH), Bells University of Science and Technology, Ota and Wesley University of Technology, Ondo (WUSTO). Stratified random sampling technique was used in selecting three hundred (300) respondents, (100, 100, 50, 50) respectively from the universities using management, senior and junior staff for stratification. The data collected were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics at 0.05 level of significance. The independent t-test result revealed that the null hypothesis (Ho) which said that there was no challenges facing capacity building on employees’ performance was rejected and the alternate hypothesis (H1) was accepted, which implied that the selected institutions faced challenges on attempt to facilitate and enhanced employees’ capacity building. The study also revealed that training and leadership style had positive effect on employees’ job performance in the institutions. In conclusion, Poor organisational decisions on the part of the management/leadership may result in wasted and ineffective capacity-building programmes. The study recommended that capacity building must be done periodically so as to effectively capture every area where training is necessary and the institutions should ensure staff oriented organizational structure, policies and frameworks of interpersonal relationship within the universities
TEACHER QUALITY AND WORK ENVIRONMENT AS PREDICTORS OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN IJEBU-ODE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, OGUN STATE
No full textThis study examined teacher quality and work environment as predictors of academic performance of senior secondary school students’ in Ijebu-Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State. The study adopted the ex-post facto research design. 100 teachers (representing 21% of the teacher population) were randomly selected from twelve (12) public secondary schools for the study. Student population consists of all the 480 SSS3 students who sat for the May/June WAEC examination during the 2018/2019 academic session. A researcher self-developed questionnaire tagged: ‘Teacher Quality, Work Environment and Academic Performance Questionnaire (TQWEAPQ) was used as the study instrument. Pearson product moment correlation was used for answering research questions 1-4 and regression analysis was used for research questions 5 and 6 at .05 level of significance. The findings indicated that teacher qualification(r=0.195; p<.05), experience(r=0.54; p<.05), pedagogical skills(r=0.813; p<.05) and availability of instructional/educational materials (r=0.322; p<.05) positively related to secondary school students’ academic performance. It was also revealed that about 52% of the variance in secondary school students’ academic performance was accounted for by the linear combination of the independent variables (teacher qualification, experience, pedagogical skills, availability of instructional materials and educational materials). Out of the five variables examined, four were found to be significant and strongly determined secondary school students’ academic performance, while educational facilities’ availability was although positive but not significant enough to determine secondary school students’ academic performance. It was recommended that teachers without teaching qualification should be granted opportunity for in-service training in education to acquire adequate method of passing instruction to students. Government should give immediate recognition to teaching as a profession. This would raise the quality of people coming into the profession