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EVALUATION OF UNIVERSITY GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS COMPETENCE IN NORTH-WEST, NIGERIA
Get PDFOne of the challenges facing university graduates is unemployability. This is because university graduates have generally been described as poorly-trained and are deficient in employability skills. Thus, this study evaluated university graduate employability skills competence in North-west, Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to examine graduates’ employability competence in communication, basic computer, analytical, entrepreneurial and interpersonal skills. A descriptive (survey) research design was adopted for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select four states for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 306 out of 1,212 top management staff from educational, commercial, science and technology industries in the Selected States (Zamfara, Jigawa, Katsina and Kaduna). The instrument used for the study was a validated researcher-designed questionnaire with a test re-test reliability index of 0.89. Descriptive statistic of mean score was used to answer the research questions. The findings of the study revealed that the employability skills competence of university graduates in communication, analytical and entrepreneurial skills were low with mean scores of 1.86, 1.81 and 1.71, respectively; while basic computer and interpersonal skills were moderate (mean scores = 2.18 and 2.12, respectively). This study concluded that university graduates’ employability skills competence level in North-west was low and the implication of this is that the Nigerian universities needed to focus more on developing graduates’ employability skills. This study recommended that more emphasis should be placed on the employability skills competence of graduates and the curricular content of every area of specialisation should be reviewed to be more activity-based in meeting the skills required by employers of labour
Relationship between leadership style and committee effectiveness in secondary schools
No full textThis study explores how leadership styles, particularly the principal's approach, influence organisational effectiveness in secondary schools, arguing that structured and supportive leadership fosters committee effectiveness, while laissez-faire or free-reign leadership may undermine collaboration, motivation, and decision-making, ultimately impacting school performance. A quantitative descriptive research design approach was employed. The study used a multistage sampling technique to select 313 participants from secondary schools in Zamfara State, Nigeria. The data collected was analysed using percentage and linear multiple regression analysis to test the hypotheses formulated at a 0.05 significance level. It was found that leadership styles (participatory and free-reign) had a significant negative relationship with the committee system effectiveness, while directive leadership style and committee system effectiveness did not have a significant relationship. Policymakers and educational authorities should address the resource constraints that limit the availability of welfare and feeding committees. School leaders should also adopt balanced management styles that incorporate clear directives and controls while allowing some level of participation and flexibility to foster a positive and effective committee system
ARE THERE DIFFERENCES IN KNOWLEDGE CLUSTER STRATEGY WITH ACCREDITATION FOR MINIMUM ACADEMIC STANDARD, STAFF TRAINING/DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH/ PUBLICATIONS IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES?
No full textThe importance of knowledge-based economy has become a reality to all nations of the worldthrough knowledge creation, sharing and application. The objective of this study was toinvestigate the influence of knowledge cluster strategy on quality assurance practices(accreditation of academic standard; training and development and research and publication) ofuniversities in North-West Geographical Zone in Nigeria. Hypotheses were formulated inaccordance with the objectives of the study. Descriptive survey research design was used for thestudy to collect data using constructed questionnaire which was prepared and validated byexperts in Educational Administration and Planning. The population of the study was made upof 102 Quality Assurance officials, 170 Management Staff and 7,346 academic staff of theuniversities in North-West Geographical Zone of Nigeria. Proportionate sampling techniquewas used to select the sample size of 659 respondents from the sampled universities in North-West Geographical Zone, Nigeria. The data was analysed in frequency counts and percentage.The formulated hypotheses of the study were tested using Analysis of Variance and the Post-Hoc Analysis with Scheffe test at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that therewere no significant differences between knowledge cluster and accreditation of academicminimum standard (P = 008; 0.05 sig. level); staff training and development (P = 298; 0.05 sig.level); and research and publication (P = 519; 0.05 sig. level) in universit ies in North-WestGeographical Zone, Nigeria. This indicated that the P-values were higher than 0.05 level ofsignificance. The study concluded that knowledge cluster strategy influenced quality assurancepractices of Universities in North-West Geographical Zone in Nigeria. However, this studyrecommended that all universities in North-west, Nigeria should maintain the adoption ofknowledge cluster strategy to enhance quality assurance practices through integration of coursecontents, course duration and curriculum compliance
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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