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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS IN SOME SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA.
Get PDFThe paper examined the relationship between human resource management and teacher effectiveness in some selected secondary schools in cross rivers state, Nigeria. Five research questions and five research hypotheses guided the study. A descriptive Survey Research design was adopted for the study. Population of the study was 340 participants consisting of school administrators and teachers from 15 public schools in Cross Rivers State, Nigeria. A sample size of 169 participants was obtained using Research advisor (2006) while purposive and stratified random sampling techniques were used to draw the sample size of the study. A questionnaire titled “Relationship between Human Resource Management and Teacher Effectiveness Questionnaire “was used to obtain data for the study. Data collected was analyzed using frequency counts, mean and standard deviation while Pearson Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient was used to test the hypotheses generated at 0.5 level of significance. One of the findings from the study revealed that there was a strong positive relationship between training & development and teacher effectiveness in public secondary schools in Cross Rivers State, Nigeria. The study recommended among others that: The management should make adequate provision for teacher development opportunities to enable teachers update their skills and competence
EFFECT OF TEACHING AIDS ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SELECTED PUBLIC SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KANO METROPOLIS: IMPLICATION FOR POLICY MAKING
Get PDFThe paper examined the effect of teaching aids on students’ academic performance in English language in selected public senior secondary schools in Kano metropolis, Nigeria. Three research Questions, three objectives and three research hypotheses guided the study. Experimental research design was adopted for the study. Population of the study consisted of five public senior secondary schools in Kano metropolis with a total of 1390 SS 2 students. Research advisor (2006) was used to determine the required sample size for the study and it recommended a sample size of 306. A simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample size required by the study Data was collected using an instrument titled “Utilization of Teaching Materials and Academic Performance Questionnaire (UTMAPQ)”. Reliability of the instrument was obtained using a test-retest method within an interval of 6 weeks. A reliability index of 0.74 was obtained through the Cronbach Alpha Co-efficient. The instrument has 20 items which are open ended questions. Hypotheses generated were tested using independent T-test at 0.05 level of significance. Findings from the study indicated among others that: Audio-visual teaching aids have statistically significant positive effect on public secondary school students’ academic performance in Kano metropolis. The study recommended among others that: Instructional materials such as print media and audio-visuals should be made available to teachers for effective teaching and learning
APPRASAL OF THE FACTORS THAT HINDERS EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATIOM POLICY IN PUBLIC JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ADAMAWA STATE
Get PDFThe aim of the research is to identify the factors that hindered the effective implementation of policies in the in junior schools. Therefore, to identify these factors, the paper comes up with four research questions and four research objectives as a guided to the study. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study. Population of the study consisted of 254 junior secondary schools, 4500 teachers and 254 principals in Adamawa state. Sample of the study was drawn using deliberate and stratified random sampling techniques, while proportionate sampling technique was used to determine the sample size required from each school. Data for the study was obtained using questionnaire. Pilot test was conducted using Cronbach Alpha and a reliability index of 0.79 was realized. Data collected was analyzed using frequency counts, percentage, mean and standard deviation while independent T-test was used to test the hypothesis generated. Findings from the study indicated that: insufficient funding, poor planning and inadequate professionally qualified teachers are some of the challenges that mars successful implementation of UBE programme in Adamawa state. It was discovered that the allocation to education in the state is below the 26% recommended by UNESCO and as a result of Poor welfare package (Mean=3.96, SD=0.96), Lack of training & retraining opportunities (Mean=2.98, SD=0.96). The study recommended among others that efforts should be made by the government to counter the factors which has become impediments to successful implementation of UBE programme such as provision of adequate funding, qualified professional teachers and instructional materials.Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi faktor-faktor yang menghambat efektivitas implementasi kebijakan di sekolah menengah pertama. Oleh karena itu, untuk mengidentifikasi faktor-faktor tersebut, Penelitian ini menyajikan empat pertanyaan penelitian dan empat tujuan penelitian sebagai pedoman penelitian. Desain penelitian deskriptif diadopsi untuk penelitian ini. Populasi penelitian terdiri dari 254 sekolah menengah pertama, 4500 guru dan 254 kepala sekolah di negara bagian Adamawa. Sampel penelitian diambil secara sengaja dengan menggunakan teknik stratified random sampling, sedangkan teknik proporsional sampling digunakan untuk menentukan besarnya sampel yang diperlukan dari masing-masing sekolah. Data penelitian diperoleh dengan menggunakan kuesioner. Uji coba dilakukan menggunakan Cronbach Alpha dan indeks reliabilitas tercapai 0,79. Data yang terkumpul dianalisis menggunakan penghitungan frekuensi, persentase, mean dan standar deviasi sedangkan uji T independen digunakan untuk menguji hipotesis yang dihasilkan. Temuan dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa: pendanaan yang tidak mencukupi, perencanaan yang buruk, dan kurangnya guru yang berkualifikasi profesional merupakan beberapa tantangan yang menghambat keberhasilan implementasi program UBE di negara bagian Adamawa. Diketahui bahwa alokasi untuk pendidikan di negara ini berada di bawah 26% yang direkomendasikan oleh UNESCO dan sebagai akibat dari paket kesejahteraan yang buruk (Mean=3.96, SD=0.96), Kurangnya kesempatan pelatihan & pelatihan ulang (Mean=2.98, SD= 0,96). Studi ini merekomendasikan antara lain bahwa upaya harus dilakukan oleh pemerintah untuk mengatasi faktor-faktor yang menghambat keberhasilan pelaksanaan program UBE seperti penyediaan dana yang memadai, guru profesional yang berkualitas dan bahan ajar
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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