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IMPACT OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE F STUDENTS IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, ABUJA, NIGERIA
This study assessed the impact of community resources on the
academic Performance of students in junior secondary schools in Abuja
The study employed a -post factor design Descriptive and inferential
statistics were used a method of analysis of mean and standard
deviation in answering t e research ·questions/ and Testing hypotheses.
Findings revealed that community resources promote Performance in
social studies students exposed to community resources than those not
exposed to community resources. Retention of social studies concept is
better when exposed to instructional community resources than without
community resources. here was a significant difference between the
mean Performance of social studies students taught with
community resources and the ones taught without community
resources. It was recommended that government should provide
conductive learning environment by properly equipping -social studies
community resources la in the classroom to enhance the acquisition of
social studies knowledge attitudes and skills by the students. It
concluded that community resources are effective in teaching and
learning. Government planers and teachers should incorporate
innovative pedagogical strategies and community resources in teaching
and learning of Social Studies.
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN SELF-CONCEPT, DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, ABUJA.
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN SELF-CONCEPT, DELINQUENT BEHAVIOUR AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, ABUJA.
FAMILY PLANNING PRACTICES AMONG MARRIED MEN AND WOMEN IN GWAGWALADA AREA COUNCIL, F.C.T: IMPLICATIONS FOR GUIDANCE
This study on family planning practices among married women and men in Gwagalada Area Council was designed to understand the family planning awareness and practices employed among selected respondents.
FAMILY PLANNING BEHAVIOUR AND INFLUENCING FACTORS AMONG MEN AND WOMEN IN FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY: IMPLICATIONS FOR COUNSELLING
The aim of this study was to find out the behaviour of men and women in Federal Capital Territory towards family planning and the factors that influence such behaviour.
FACTORS AND EFFECTS OF EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA: PUBLICATION FOR GUIDANCE
The study examined the factors and effects of examination malpractices among undergraduate student of the university of Abuja and the implications of such findings to guidance .
FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER PERCEPTION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NIGERIA EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL IN NIGERIA.
This .study Teachers' Perception of the Effectiveness of NERDC in
Curriculum meant for Secondary Education in Nigeria. The study employed survey research. The population of the study was 3600 senior secondary
school teachers. The sample of the study comprised 300 teachers randomly
selected from public secondary schools in FCT.
ENROLMENT AND RETENTION PATTERN OF PUPILS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN FEDE RAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, ABUJA, NIGERIA: 2003 - 2012
This study was carried out to compare the enrolment and retention pattern of
pupils in public and private primary schools in Federal Capital territory
(FCT), Abuja from 2003-2012. ·1 he descriptive research design was adopted
for the study and the sample size of the study were twelve primary schools
comprising of six public and six private schools that were randomly selected
from across the six area councils of the FCT. The public primary school had
a pupils' enrolment of 10,028 while the private primary school had 15,280
pupils enrolled during the period under study. Data collected for the study
were enrolment and attendance records of primary school pupils from 2003
to 2012. The data were analyzed using percentages and rates to answer the
research questions of the study, while t-test was employed in the hypotheses
at 0.05 level of significance. Major findings of the study include the
following, a gender gap of l 6.18% in the enrolment pattern of boys and
girls into public primary schools from 2003 to 2012; whilst a gender gap in
enrolment of 6.28%was recorded for the private schools during the period.
The average enrolment rate was 142.8% for public primary schools
which was higher than the average enrolment rate of 11 1. 16% recorded by
the private schools during the period. In terms of retention pattern in the
schools, the findings revealed the presence of large numbers of pupils who
joined the streams after primary one in both private and public primary
schools during the period. The results of the hypothesis testing showed that
there were no significant differences in the enrolment patterns of boys in
girls in both private and public primary schools. Furthermore there was no
significant difference in the enrolment and retention patterns into the public
and private primary schools in Federal Capital Territory from 2003 to 2012.
Therefore, it was recommended that government should continue to
improve in the provision of basic infrastructures and instructional mate rials
to accommodate influx of pupils into public primary schools in the Federal
Capital Territory, Nigeria.
EFFICACY OF ETHICS INFUSION INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY IN ENHANCING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS' LEARNING OUTCOMES IN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
The study investigated the Efficacy of Ethics infusion instructional Strategy in
Enhancing Undergraduate Students· Learning Outcomes in Environmental
Education. Six research questions and seven null hypotheses guided the study. The
study employed the pre-test, post-test quasi experimental design. All
undergraduate environmental education students in Nigerian universities
constituted the population of the study. A sample size of two hundred and ten (210)
students from Universities of Ahuja and Cal a bar was respectively and purposively
constituted into experimental and control groups. The researcher developed
Environmental Education Achievement Test (EECAT), Environmental Education
Retention Test (EECORET), and Environmental Education Attitude Scale (EECAS)
as instruments .for data collection. Data collected with respect to the research
questions were analyzed using frequency counts, standard deviations, and mean
(.\;) statistics. The seven hypotheses generated for the study were tested using
Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) and the Estimated Marginal Mean (EMM).
Result of major findings revealed that ethics infusion instructional strategy had
significant effects on achievements and retention of students in environmental
education There was a significant difference in the mean attitude scores of the
students as a result of treatment with ethics infusion instructional strategy. The
study found no significant relationship or interaction effects of treatment (ethics
il'!fusion instructional strategy) and gender on students' achievement, retention and
attitudes. Based on the findings of the study, the .following recommendations
among others were made: ethics infusion instructional strategy should be adopted
in teaching and learning of environmental education in Nigerian universities.
Government (at all levels) should explore the ethical principles embedded in ethics
infusion instructional strategy to prepare syllabuses that will enhance
environmental sustainability in Nigeria. Workshops, conferences, and seminars
should be organized to sensitize environmental education teachers on the need to
adopt and apply the ethics infusion instructional strategy for teaching and learning
of environmental education in formal and non-formal institutions in Nigeria.
EFFECTS OF REFLECTIVE TEACHING ON SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT IN CHEMISTRY.
The study investigated effects of reflective teaching on secondary school
students ' achievement in Chemistry. Eleven thousand, six hundred and twenty
three senior secondary two (SS/1) offering Chemistry in the six area councils
constituted the target population. However, simple random sampling technique
was used to select a total of 90 SSII Chemistry students from two schools in
Gwagwalada Area Council of Federal Capital Territory who were used as
sample for the study. The sample was categorized into two groups who were
taught using lesson plans. A non- randomized pre test-post test control group
quasi- experimental design was employed for the study. Multiple choice items
were administered as instrument of study to the groups of students immediately
after treatment. The treatment session lasted for ten weeks. Data gathered for
the study were analysed at 0.05 level of significance using t-test statistical
method. The finding showed that there was significant difference between the
performance of students taught with reflective teaching and those taught
without reflective teaching. This indicated that reflective teaching enhanced
students ' academic achievement in Chemistry. In addition, there was no
significant difference between the achievement of male and female students who
were taught using reflective teaching. This indicated that gender has no effect
on the performance of students in Chemistry. However, gender had effect on
the performance of students in the control group as shown in the gender-related
differences in performance observed. These findings were exhaustively
discussed and recommendations made. Prominent among the recommendation
was that use of reflective teaching should be encouraged among science
teachers for self- evaluation and deeper reflection in their classroom activities.
EFFECTS OF GRAMMAR INSTRUCTION ON ACHIEVEMENT IN ESSAY WRITING PERFO ANCE BY STUDENTS IN GOVERNMENT SECONDA Y SCHOOL, WUSE, ABUJA.
Students in Government Secondary School, Wuse, Abuja was set out to determine whether
instructing students on rules of grammar could help them to write significant essay. To achieve
this, the study adopted a quasi-experiment as research design. The population of the study
comprised two hundred and ninety-four (294) Students of Government Senior Secondary School
2, Wuse and Jabi, Abuja. The ample size of seventy (70) students were selected out of two
hundred and ninety-four (294) students of Government Secondary School two (2) Wuse Jabi
and were further grouped into experimental and control groups. The instrument used was test
items. Pre-test and post-test were administered and analyzed using simple percentage, mean,
standard deviation and t-test statistical tools. The findings revealed that the performances of
experimental group in pre-test nd post test results and mean scores in the use of present tense
verbs, present perfect tense users, simple past tense verbs, subject-verbs concord, third person's
singular noun-verbs, preposition and connectives ore significantly better than those of control
group. The study also revealed hat there is significant difference between mean scores in the
pre-test and post-test results o students in experimental group and that of the control group.
Consequent upon these find/ s, the study recommended that essay writing should be
encouraged In primary schools o help the pupils widen their knowledge in rules of grammar
before they get to secondary s hoof, teachers should give a written exercise on essay writing
regularly at the end of every grammar topic thought in a week, mark the assignments written by
the students and correct any mi take made by the students Immediately, so that they will note
the corrections made by the teacher. These will help the students to retain whatever
grammatical rules they have learnt without mother tongue interference or any environmental
influence.
EFFECT OF VJDEOT AP.ED INSTRUCTION ON SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS' ATTITUDE AND ACHIEVEMENT IN BASIC TECHNOLOGY IN FCT, ABUJA, NIGERIA
EFFECT OF VJDEOT AP.ED INSTRUCTION ON SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS' ATTITUDE AND ACHIEVEMENT IN BASIC TECHNOLOGY IN FCT, ABUJA, NIGERIA
EFFECT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TRAINING ON FCT POLICE OFFICERS' ATTITUDES TO CORRUPTION: IMPLICATION FOR COUNSELLING
EFFECT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TRAINING ON FCT POLICE OFFICERS' ATTITUDES TO CORRUPTION: IMPLICATION FOR COUNSELLING
SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION AS INSTRUMENT FOil ACHIEVING NATIONAL ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY AS PERCEIVED BY NIGERIAN TEACHERS
SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION AS INSTRUMENT FOil ACHIEVING NATIONAL ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY AS PERCEIVED BY NIGERIAN TEACHERS
CONTRIBUTION OF FADAMA II AS A TOOL FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ABUJA
CONTRIBUTION OF FADAMA II AS A TOOL FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ABUJA
CONSELLING NEEDS OF THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY CHILD.
CONSELLING NEEDS OF THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY CHILD.
