Development and Validation of Instrument for Students’ Appraisal of Teachers’ Instructional Effectiveness in Secondary Schools in Akwa Ibom State. (Published)
This study was conducted to develop and validate instrument for students’ appraisal of teachers’ instructional effectiveness in secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State. Two research questions were raised to guide the study. The population of the study was 50914 SS2 students in public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State. A sample of 1021 students was selected for the study using multi-stage sampling technique. The instrument developed by the researcher was titled Students’ Appraisal of Teachers’ Instructional Effectiveness Scale (SATIES). Subtest- total correlation was used to establish construct validity for the instrument. Cronbach Alpha statistics was used to establish the reliability of the instrument which yielded a coefficient of 0.882. It was recommended among others that school supervisors should make use of the instrument in appraising teachers to get a clear picture of the classroom activities of a particular teacher.
Keywords: Akwa Ibom State, Development, Secondary Schools, students’ appraisal, teachers’ instructional effectiveness, validation of instrument
The Role of Language in Achieving the World’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) (Published)
Globalization in recent times has impacted positively on various aspects of life and advanced new opportunities for international co-operation, yet it has led to multifaceted social, economic, political and environmental challenges across the globe. Several developmental trajectories have been advanced towards addressing the dynamism of the developmental needs of countries by world leaders -from the 21st century Millennium Developmental Goals (MDGs)to the Education for all Goals (EFA)and more recently, the Sustainable development goals(SDGs) in their declaration of the anticipated future for global transformation ,come 2030.The United Nations identified seventeen (17)sustainable developmental goals that will help world transformation ,if achieved; but little attention was given to the societal organs/medium that will assist the realization of these goal such as language. This work therefore tries to fill this gap, using a qualitative research based on Sapir-Whorfian theory of language, with Leech’s five characteristics of language- informative, expressive, directive, aesthetic and phatic. The study seeks to assess the role of language in the attainment of the Sustainable development goals ,bearing in mind that the world is peopled with nations of diversified languages whose aims are to achieve collaborative partnership for world’s transformation ,by the year 2030.It was discovered that language plays a significant role in the achievement of virtually all the Sustainable development goals (SDGs)- from quality education to healthy living, promotion of peace and inclusive societies, industrialization and innovations ,implementation and revitalization of global partnership and others for the purpose of world transformation.
Keywords: Development, Goals, Language, Sustainable