Construction and Validation of a Scale to Measure University Lecturers’ Stress in Teaching Profession in Southwest Nigeria (Published)
This study developed a scale for measuring University Lecturers’ stress in teaching profession in Southwest, Nigeria. The study specifically determined whether the stress rating scale (SRS) is reliable. It also examined whether the stress rating scale (SRS) is valid. It furthers determined whether the stress rating scale (SRS) discriminate between lecturers based on gender. The descriptive research design of the survey type was used in this study. The population for the study consisted of 18,967 university lecturers in Southwest. A sample of 300 University lecturers were selected through multistage sampling procedure. The research instrument used in collecting data for this study was a self-developed stress rating scale (SRS). The 30 items generated were administered to University lecturers on a four-point continuum. Their responses were subjected to factor analysis and item total correlation which helped to reduce the items to 18. A 18-items instrument named “Stress Rating Scale” was finally produced. This was administered on the selected sample for the study. Analyses of the data were presented under descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics were analyzed by the use mean and standard deviation while the inferential testing were done using Cronbach’s coefficient of alpha reliability, Item Total Correlation Analysis, and students t-test. The findings of this study revealed that the scale had significant reliability coefficient, the scale is valid, and there was a significant difference between the rating of male and female University Lecturer on the Stress scale. It was concluded that the 18-items on stress rating scale developed in this study is reliable and valid and can therefore be used to adequately measure lecturers’ stress in teaching profession. Based on the findings of this study, it was therefore recommended that lecturers should take enough time to rest so as to ease off their stress and female lecturers should be given consideration when assigning activities that can lead to stress
Keywords: Development, Measurement, Stress, rating scale, teaching profession
Measurement of Internal Efficiency in The School System: Focus on some selected Colleges of Education in Nigeria. (Published)
The study examined measurement of internal efficiency in the school system: Focus on some selected Colleges of Education in Nigeria. This study adopted the ex-post facto research design. The population for this study comprised all the 70 public Colleges of Education in existence between 2012/2013 and 2015/2016 in Nigeria. There were 21 federal and 49 states owned Colleges of Education located in all the six geo-political zones of the country. The sample for this study comprises students of fiften Colleges of Education. The respondents will be all the 203 heads of departments drawn from these fifteen (15) Colleges of Education in three geo-political Zones. The three geo-political zones of Nigeria. The sample technique involved multi-stage, stratified random and purposive samplings. An inventory was used to collect data on number of students that progressed to higher level, number of stagnation, dropout and graduate outputs in each department in the Colleges of Education sampled within the selected sessions. Inventory titled “Measurement of Internal Efficiency of Colleges of Education inventory” (MIECOEI) was used to collect data from the respondents. The instrument was subjected to screening by experts in Educational Management and Test and Measurement in order to meet the face, construct and content validity. The inventory was administered through the help of the research assistants who distributed all the copies of the inventory to the heads of the departments in the Colleges of Education. In analyzing the data collected for the study, descriptive statistics such as percentages mean and cohort analysis were used to analyse the research questions. The findings of this research showed that there were increase in the rates of stagnation and dropout but increase in progression rate as students moved to higher classes and that the internal efficiency of the Colleges of Education was low. Based on the findings, it was concluded that there was low internal efficiency in the sampled Colleges of Education in Nigeria. It was therefore recommended that efforts should be made to maintain the increased in the progression rates within the first two academic sessions so that the increase in the rates of dropout and stagnation in the third year and among those that spent extra year (s) in the Colleges of Education would be reduced.
Keywords: Measurement, cohort, flow rate, internal efficiency, progressive, stagnation