Nigeria

Teachers’ Job Satisfaction Indicators and Labour Turnover in Private Secondary Schools in Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District Nigeria (Published)

This study sought to determine the extent to which teachers’ job satisfaction indicators influence labour turnover in private secondary schools in Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District. In order to carry out this study objectively, four specific objectives, three research questions and four research hypotheses were postulated to guide the study. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 2,585 teachers in all the 121 government approved private secondary schools in Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District. Stratified random sampling technique was used in selecting a sample of 346 teachers. A questionnaire with 28 structured items designed by the researchers was used for data collection for this study. Cronbach’s Alpha Technique was used in determining the reliability of the instrument and a correlation coefficient of 0.85 was obtained. Means with standard deviation was used in answering the research questions. The t-test statistics was used in testing the null hypotheses 1,2 and 4 while Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used in testing hypotheses 3 respectively at .05 level significance. The findings of the study reveal that there is no significant difference between the mean responses of male and female teachers on the extent to which job security, compensation, organizational policy and job prospect influences labour turnover in private secondary schools in Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District. Based on the findings, it is concluded that provisions of teachers’ job satisfaction indicators in private secondary schools would positively increase teachers’ satisfaction, reduce labour turnover, increase students and teachers’ performance, increase students’ population, promote the image of the school, increase profitability earning capacity and competitive ability. It is recommended among other things that proprietors and proprietresses in private secondary schools should provide teachers with job satisfaction indicators such as job security, compensation, organizational policy and job propect in order to reduce labour turnover.

 

Keywords: Akwa Ibom, Labour turnover, Nigeria, Private Secondary schools, indicators, teachers’ job satisfaction

Effects of Instructional Strategies and Gender on Junior Secondary School Students’ Achievement in Business Studies in Rivers State, Nigeria (Published)

Business Studies is offered in Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) as a subject meant to expose learners to commerce, office management, trade and book keeping. In spite of its importance, performance in the subject is below expectation in Rivers State. Previous studies revealed that brainstorming and field trip will improve learning outcomes but they are rarely used while teaching Business Studies. This study, therefore, determined the effects of brainstorming (BTM), field trip (FTTM), and conventional teaching methods (CM) and gender on secondary school students’ achievement in Business Studies. All the JSS 2 students (467) in the selected schools participated in the study. The treatment lasted for seven weeks. The instrument used was Business Studies Achievement Test (r=0.82), Data collected was analysed using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) at 0.05 level of significance. There was a significant main effect of treatment on students’ achievement in Business Studies [F_(2,131)=26.70, partial η²=0.29]. Participants in FTTM had the highest mean (35.79), followed by BTM (35.71) and CM (27.54). Results revealed that gender did not have a significant main effect on students’ achievement in business studies [F_(1,131) =.315, P> .05]. Brainstorming and Field trip teaching methods influenced learning outcomes of students in Business studies in Rivers state but Field trip method was better. It is therefore suggested that teachers should use both methods during Business studies classes.

Keywords: Achievement, Gender, Instructional Strategies, Junior Secondary School Students, Nigeria, Rivers State, business studies

Examination Malpractice in State Owned Institutions of Higher Learning, Causes and Remedies: A Study of Some Selected States in The North Eastern, Nigeria (Published)

The paper investigated examination malpractices in state owned institutions of higher learning in the north-eastern geo-political zone, Nigeria. The population of the study comprised of staff and students of three (3) selected institutions of higher learning from nine (9) states in the north-east geo-political zone, Nigeria

Keywords: : examination malpractice, Nigeria, North Eastern, higher learning, state owned institutions

Prospects of Online Teaching and Learning in Nigeria (Published)

Coronavirus (Covid-19) has great impacts on the education industry so much that it has introduced revolutionary trends into the education industry that have potentials to usher in fundamental and desirable changes. The desirable impressions of coronavirus in the education landscape are so visible that many stakeholders pray that it will be unthinkable for any reasonable state to return to the practices in the education industry prior to the coronavirus pandemic. One desirable change brought about by the coronavirus pandemic is online teaching and learning. Using the philosophical methodology, this paper discusses the prospects of online teaching and learning. The paper establishes that online teaching and learning is advantageous to teacher, learners and administration of educational institutions. It helps to improve the professional development of the teacher and through this way grows the teaching profession, enables teachers and learners to revisit what had been taught and learnt, makes teaching and learning more flexible and more convenient for both the teacher and the learners, saves cost for management, enhances effective documentation by management. The paper among other things recommends that the sense of collaboration the education industry witnessed during this period should be sustained and teacher education should be repositioned to integrate those revolutionary changes popped up during this period into the curriculum of teacher education institutions.

Citation: Nwaokugha D.O. and Wogonwu H.W. (2023)   Prospects of Online Teaching and Learning in Nigeria, International Journal of Education, Learning and Development, Vol. 11, No.2, pp.1-15

Keywords: Nigeria, Prospects, online teaching and Learning

Adoption of Google Meet Technology and Evaluation Competence of Evaluation Students in Nigeria (Published)

This study examined the adoption of Google meet technology and evaluation competence of evaluation students in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Three objectives, three research questions and three hypotheses were respectively formulated to guide this study.  Ex-post facto research design was adopted for this study. The population of this study was all the 30 master and doctorate degree evaluation students in the Faculty of Education, University of Uyo and Akwa Ibom State University from the 2016/2017 to 2019/2020 academic sessions. A 4-point scale titled Google Meet Technology and Evaluation Competence Scale was developed by the researcher and used for data collection with reliability index of 0.73 was used for data collection. The instrument was duly administered on the respondents and the data collected were analyzed and used in answering the research questions and testing the hypotheses at .05 alpha level. The findings of the study revealed that Google meet technology is reliable, effective and efficient in improving instructional delivery of evaluation courses, evaluation knowledge as well as evaluation competence of evaluation students. Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that Google meet technology enhances evaluation competence of evaluation students in Akwa Ibom State. It was recommended among others that evaluation lecturers and students should have positive attitude towards technology usage, acquire the necessary technological skills and adopt Google meet technology in teaching and learning of evaluation as this would help to improve evaluation students’ competence.

Citation: Eduwem J.D., Ekim R.E.D.,Tommy U.E.,  Nduesoh I.N. (2023) Adoption of Google Meet Technology and Evaluation Competence of Evaluation Students in Nigeria, International Journal of Education, Learning and Development, Vol. 11, No.1, pp.1-12

Keywords: Competence, Evaluation, Google meet technology, Nigeria, Students

Effect of Cognitive Restructuring Intervention on Emotional Adjustment of Sample Divorcees in Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State, Nigeria (Published)

The study investigated the effect of Cognitive Restructuring Intervention on Emotional Adjustment of Divorcees in Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State, Nigeria. The need for the study came as a result of increasing rate of divorce among married teachers in the study area to which the researchers sought to find solutions. It was guided by two research questions and two corresponding null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. The design of the study was quasi-experimental non-randomized control group, pretest-posttest design. The population of the study consisted of all 24 divorcees in public secondary schools in the study area identify by school counsellors. The entire population of 24 divorcees were used as sample. In this case, there was no sample. The instrument for data collection was questionnaire titled “Emotional Adjustment Divorcees Questionnaire (EADQ)” developed by the researchers and validated by three experts in the Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The internal consistency reliability of the instrument was obtained using cronbach alpha statistics which yielded the estimate of 0.84 for EADQ. This instrument was used to collect data from subjects as pretest before treatment programme which lasted for six weeks and were reshuffled by changing the serial numbers of the items and re-administered on the subjects on posttest after treatment. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to test the null hypotheses. The result of the study indicated that cognitive restructuring intervention had significant effect on emotional adjustment of divorcees. There was no significant difference in the mean rating on emotional adjustment of divorcees as moderated by gender. In the other words, male and female divorces exposed to treatment benefitted equally on the emotional adjustment. Based on the findings; it was recommended among others that guidance counsellors should employ cognitive restructuring intervention to help divorcees on emotional adjustment.

Citation: Nneka Nwosu, Esther E. Enajedu, Ughwutobe Alex Itobore and D. C. Ncheke (2022) Effect of Cognitive Restructuring Intervention on Emotional Adjustment of Sample Divorcees in Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State, Nigeria, International Journal of Education, Learning and Development, Vol. 10, No.8, pp.18-26

Keywords: Cognitive Restructuring, Enugu State, Intervention, Nigeria, Nsukka, divorcees, emotional adjustment

Cognitive Disposition, Self-Determination and Attitude to Keyboarding as Determinants of Students’ Achievement in Word Processing in Colleges of Education, South-West, Nigeria (Published)

The declining trend in performance of Business Education students in word processing has become worrisome to stakeholders most especially business education lecturers. This study therefore examined cognitive disposition, self-determination, and attitude to keyboarding as determinants of students’ achievement in word processing in colleges of education in South-West, Nigeria.This study adopted a descriptive survey research design type. A sample of 1,346 students was selected through stratified random sampling technique from a population of 6,035 college of education students in South-West, Nigeria. Five research instruments were used for data collection.  They are: Demographic Data Inventory, Cognitive Disposition Inventory (a=0.89), Self-Determination Scale (a=0.86), Attitude to Keyboarding Scale (a=0.76) and Word Processing Achievement Test (a=0.89). The null hypotheses were tested using Multiple Regression Analysis at 0.05 level of significance.The finding revealed that cognitive disposition, self-determination, and attitude to keyboarding significantly predict students’ academic achievement in Word Processing (F_{(3, 1342)} = 31.807, p <.05). In the same vein, cognitive disposition (b= .317, t=21.605, p < .05), self-determination (b=.226, t=12.449, p < .05), and attitude to keyboarding (b=.208, t=10.194, p < .05) have relative contributions to the prediction of academic achievement in Word Processing among the students.It was therefore recommended, among others, that Business Education Lecturers in Colleges of Education should identify those strong cognitive disposition patterns in their classes and utilize fitting approaches to accommodate individual cognitive disposition preferences in their pedagogy. Educators should continually promote self-determination via both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation by helping learners to focus not only on the extrinsic rewards they gain after they accomplish tasks but to also inculcate the intrinsic value in their learning of Word Processing.

Citation: Abati, Olugbenga Adekunle and Olusanya, Omolara Oluwatoyin (2022) Cognitive Disposition, Self-Determination and Attitude to Keyboarding as Determinants of Students’ Achievement in Word Processing in Colleges of Education, South-West, Nigeria, International Journal of Education, Learning and Development, Vol. 10, No.8, pp.8-17

 

 

Keywords: Colleges Of Education, Nigeria, South-west, Students’ Achievement, attitude, cognitive disposition, self-determination, word processing

Socio – Economic Marginalization and Youth Restiveness, Impact On Community Development in Nigeria (Published)

This study investigates socio-economic marginalization and youths’ restiveness impact on community development. The study employed content analysis with indepth literature review as methodology. Socioeconomic marginalization is the exclusion of the youth in the social and economic activities of the community and also denying them from benefiting from socio -economic opportunities of the land. The concept of youth restiveness is the unwelcome attitude and behaviour, demonstrating violence and grievances to press home their demands, needs and aspiration. All of these impact community development which represent real change in the life of a community in terms of the people, infrastructure, the environment.  Empirical literatures have investigated the nexus among socio-economic marginalization, youths’ restiveness and their impact on community development and found strong correlations among the variables. Thus, socio-economic marginalization brings about youths’ restiveness which in turn crops up negative impact on community development. This is validated with this studies. To reverse this trend, socio-economic inclusion should be encouraged which will in turn eliminate restiveness of youth and bring about sustainable community development. Thus, this study concludes that, involvement of youth in social and economic activities of the community, opening opportunities for them will curb restiveness and crop up sustainable community development. Therefore, the study recommends that, there should be youth involvement in terms of participation and benefits association with the socio-economic activities of the community.  This will systematically eliminate restiveness and drive community development. 

Citation: Ifeoma Felicia Uzoagu  (2022) Socio – Economic Marginalization and Youth Restiveness, Impact On Community Development in Nigeria, International Journal of Education, Learning and Development, Vol. 10, No.6, pp.1-12

Keywords: Community development, Nigeria, Socio-Economic, marginalization, youth restiveness

Integrity and Openness as Correlates of University Effectiveness in Southwest, Nigeria (Published)

This study examined the relationship between some leadership traits and university effectiveness in Southwest Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised all the 3,418 academic and 8,937 non-academic staff in all the 7 federal universities and 11 states universities in Southwest Nigeria. The sample for this study was 900 respondents, comprising 60 academic members of staff and 90 administrative staffs drawn from 6 universities in three states in Southwest Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure which involved, simple random, stratified and proportionate sampling techniques was used to select sample for the study. Two sets of instruments tagged “Leadership Integrity and Openness Questionnaire” (LIOQ) and “University Effectiveness Questionnaire (UEQ)” were used for the study. The two instruments were validated by experts with LIOQ and UEQ yielding reliability coefficients of 0.79 and 0.81 respectively.  The data were analysed using inferential statistics. All the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study showed that there was significant relationship between leadership traits and universities effectiveness in Southwest, Nigeria. The study showed that leadership integrity and openness correlated significantly with university effectiveness. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that management of universities should endeavour to build good leadership traits in its management staff by exposing them to regular leadership and management seminars and conferences for efficient and effective management towards enhancing the level of university effectiveness.

Citation: Oluyemisi K. Olaogun and  Haastrup T. Ekundayo (2021) Integrity and Openness as Correlates of University Effectiveness in Southwest, Nigeria, International Journal of Education, Learning and Development, Vol. 9, No.9, pp.21-31

 

Keywords: Integrity, Nigeria, Southwest, openness, university effectiveness

Contributions of Faith-Based Organizations towards Peace Building for Sustainable Community Development in Rivers State, Nigeria (Published)

The paper is focused on the contributions of faith-based organizations in peace building process for sustainable development in Rivers state, Nigeria. The explanatory approach was adopted through secondary research materials to clarify understanding of concepts that formed major sub-headings in the discourse. The various views of researchers on the subject matter were adequately addressed. The key concepts in the study were also x-rayed. Activity areas of Faith- based organizations in peace building are highlighted. The study suggested among others, that the State and development agenciesshould synergize with faith-based organizations in areas of funding seminars on peaceful co-existence among the people. Also, Faith-based organizations should keep track of making peace among the people. This will enable them to offer early warning signals about conflicts to the government.

 

Keywords: Faith-Based, Nigeria, Organizations, Rivers State, peace building sustainable community development