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Entrepreneurship Education Instructional Delivery in Higher Education Institutions in Osun State, Nigeria
Get PDFThis study identified instructional delivery methods and determined the problems associated with the delivery of entrepreneurship education in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), particularly in Osun State, Nigeria. The study adopted the quantitative research design using survey approach. The population for the study consisted 48 lecturers and 2,384 students across the three HEIs owned by Osun State government. The sample was made up of 361 purposively selected respondents based on the courses offered and taught. This comprised 333 students offering one or more entrepreneurship education courses and 28 lecturers teaching entrepreneurship education courses from three HEIs in Osun state. The Entrepreneurship Education Instructional Delivery Questionnaire (EEID-Q) was used to elicit information from entrepreneurship education lecturers and students. Data gathered were analyzed using percentages. The results showed lectures and seminars (75%) as well as technology-enhanced learning (50%) as the predominant methods for teaching entrepreneurship education. It also showed the problems associated with the delivery of entrepreneurship education in Osun State HEIs. These include poor implementation of entrepreneurship education policies 327(90.5%), inadequate funding 325(89.9%), poor orientation and sensitisation for students 322(89.1%), non-inclusion of entrepreneurship education at basic level of education 319(88.3%), as well as infrastructural deficiency 315(87.2%). Consequently, it was recommended that student-centered instructional methods should be employed by entrepreneurship education lecturers to ensure effective delivery of the course. Government should also increase budgetary allocation to her HEIs to be able to establish and adequately equip entrepreneurial development centers for practical work and provide adequate training/instructional materials for the course, giving its relevance to graduate self-employment in this era of rising youth unemployment
Entrepreneurship Education in Nigerian University Secondary Schools: A Comparative Analysis of Content and Administration
Get PDFEntrepreneurship education was designed to train individuals for work after school. The content contextualizes activities that espouse creation of knowledge, competencies and experiences of students’ initiatives while its administration relates to pedagogical delivery of such content. This study, therefore, compared entrepreneurial content and its administration in university secondary schools in Nigeria using the survey approach. From a population of 3,624 students and 64 entrepreneurship education teachers in five university secondary schools in southwestern Nigeria, 347 students and 12 teachers were sampled from three university secondary schools. While the university secondary schools and entrepreneurship education teachers were selected purposively based on years of establishment and subject teachers respectively, the simple random sampling was used for selection of students to give equal chance of being selected. The study found that entrepreneurship subjects are available in university secondary schools. It also showed that contents were well administered in university secondary schools and established a significant difference between the entrepreneurial contents and content administered in university secondary schools in Southwestern Nigeria. Consequently, it was recommended that government should review the curriculum so as to introduce topics that promote more of entrepreneurial intentions for harmony between curriculum content and the subject administration.
Entrepreneurship or Paid Employment: The Post-School Job Preference of Undergraduates in Nigerian Public Universities
Get PDFPost-graduation employment has been of great concern to students, teachers, and parents. This is because of the stiff competition in the contemporary labour market. The job preference of students informs their post-graduation expectations and interests. This study, therefore, assessed the post-school job preference of undergraduates in Nigerian public universities using the survey approach of quantitative design. The population was the six south-west states of Nigeria having 17 public universities in the zone, and comprising of 12,890 male and 13,966 female final year undergraduates of the universities. Using the simple random sampling technique, three public universities were selected. Furthermore, 1,500 final year undergraduates were selected using the criterion purposive sampling technique. The Undergraduates’ Job Preference Scale (UNJOP-S), a 20-item questionnaire, was designed and administered. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to answer the research question and hypothesis respectively. The study found that paid employment was the most preferred job of undergraduates. It equally showed a significant relationship between entrepreneurship education and measures of undergraduates’ job preference. Consequently, entrepreneurial content should be incorporated in every discipline to shape the undergraduates’ job preference towards entrepreneurial endeavours after graduation, as this will change their orientation for entrepreneurial activities and facilitate the school-to-work transition
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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