48 research outputs found
The conventional versus a constructionist Scratch programming and first-year students' achievements in higher education classes: experimental data.
No full textGlobally, learning or teaching the first programming (popularly called CS1) remains a significant educational challenge. Indicators such as CS1 students' engagement, failure and attrition rates, and lack of diversity, continue to show the need for innovating the learning or teaching of novice computer science students. To ease initiating novices to programming, Scratch, a visual programming language, has become a staple of K-12 CS1 classes.
As outcomes of a research project aiming to explore a constructionist Scratch pedagogy with novice CS students in higher education, we present these datasets. In the research lasting two successive academic sessions, we conducted two quasi-experimental studies involving four intact CS1 classes in selected public polytechnic in the north central Nigeria. In each study, we randomly assigned the classes to the experimental and control groups, constituting the constructionist Scratch and the conventional CS1 classes, respectively.
Instruments for collecting data include a student profile questionnaire, a pretest, and posttest. Sequel to ethical clearance and permission from the selected schools, we conducted each study during the first semester of each academic session, in the first seven to eight weeks. During the first to second week, we administered students who consented to take part with the questionnaire and the pretest. Learning or teaching in the two classes lasted six weeks. Then both classes took the posttest. An independent CS educator who is not part of this research marked all the achievement tests, following a rubric prepared by the first author. To strengthen the research design and the possibility of arriving at valid causal evidence, we employed a Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM) algorithm to generate matched samples of experimental and control data, which we used in the analysis.
Data presented here includes the raw, unmatched and matched experimental datasets from both studies. A researcher can make use of the data:
To explore if some background variables not addressed in the original research may moderate CS1 students' achievements. For instance, their prior achievements in mathematics, physics, or English.
To uncover some interesting patterns using machine learning algorithms.
To validate the outcome of the original experiment by using the unmatched, matched or newly generated matched samples.
The authors welcome further research collaborations in using the data or the accompanying research instruments.
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Book Review: African Philosophy: Reflections on Yoruba Metaphysics and Jurisprudence
No full textBook Title: African Philosophy: Reflections on Yoruba Metaphysics and JurisprudenceBook Author: Oladele Abiodun BalogunPublisher: Xcel Publishers. Pages: 387. Year of Publication: 201
Ensuring sustainable corporate governance and financial reporting: essential tools for improved user confidence
No full textIMPLICATIONS OF TRANING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES ON ACCOUNTANTS PRODUCTIVITY IN SELECTED BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS IN ONITSHA, ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA
No full textABSTRACT This study titled "Implications of Training and Development Programmes on Accountants productivity in selected Business organizations i
AUDITING AS A TOOL FOR ACCOUNTABILITY FOR EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
No full textAbstract School administration in Nigeria i
Revenue Generation and Transparecy in Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry:[Position of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (Neiti)]
No full textThis study examines the impact of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) in promoting revenue transparency in the oil and gas industry. One of the earliest challenges with revenue generated from the oil and gas industry in Nigeria is how revenue is paid by oil companies and collected by regulatory bodies without misappropriating the funds, and since government spending is one of the major influences of the level of economic activity, as government survival is largely dependent on the revenue realized from oil and gas sector. This study perceives transparency as a means of ensuring accountability in revenue generation in the Nigeria oil and gas industry using Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) as a case study. The study will serve as a useful document for a wide range of stakeholders including government (all tiers), policy makers, and civil society. The researcher concluded that the revenue collecting agents of government should be pragmatic and objective in their revenue drive to ensure sustainable revenue generation, also enjoying NEITI to double its effort to improve transparency in the oil and gas industries. Keywords: NEITI, Transparency, Oil and gas, Revenue Generation, Audit and Accountabilit
Functional Tax Governance Apparatus and Economic Development
No full textThe proportion of tax earnings to gross domestic product (GDP) in Nigerian economy had been ranked and affirmed the least in the sub-Sahara African and as evolving economy, different reasons attested to this fact, hence, the study is aimed at investigate the inherent lacuna of tax governance apparatus in responses to economic development as broad objective. The study employed field research design, the research instrument that was deployed for collection of data is purposive and structured questionnaire targeted at elicit information from relevant and related stakeholders in tax matters, the research instrument and data collected were subjected to Cronbach alpha test and heteroscedasticity test to affirm the validity/reliability and best linear unbiased estimator of data collected respectively. The result revealed that the responsiveness of economic development to tax assessment, tax policy and tax administration were statistically significant inversely related while tax collection was statistically insignificant related directly with economic development. Thereby study concluded that poor management and administration of tax system in Nigeria responsible for adverse relationship that subsist between the proportion of tax earnings to GDP and resulted decayed and declined physical infrastructures and socio
Petrophysical and rock physics analyses for characterization of complex sands in deepwater Niger delta, Nigeria
No full textADOPTION OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS (IFRS) TO ENHANCE FINANCIAL REPORTING IN NIGERIA UNIVERSITIES
No full textPatterns of Patient Flow to Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex’s Cancer Treatment Centre, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
No full textThis study analyses the spatial dimensions of patronage of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex’s Cancer Treatment Centre, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria, with a view to provide information on the sphere of influence of the centre and to inform future locational decisions. The geographic coordinates of relevant phenomena were obtained using a GPS receiver. Also, the medical records of cancer patients were assessed for relevant information. The collected data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics, and geo-spatial techniques. The data showed that a total of 1809 patients from 15 states in Nigeria were enrolled for the treatment of cancer at the hospital. The volume of patronage at the centre was seen to be inversely related to the distance travelled by patients (r = −.657, p>0.05). For instance, 85% of the patients came from the three (3) states nearest to the health facility, with Osun, the host State, accounting for about half (50.6%) of the total number. Additionally, the study revealed some demographic and socio-economic peculiarities among the cancer patients
