ABSTRACT Nursing Education is a humanistic science which focuses on the intellectual development of the learner, compassionate concern for the sick, rehabilitation of the disabled and care for the dying. Hence the goal of nursing education reflects the needs, problems and aspirations of the society. Despite the series of reforms in nursing education, in response to societal needs and challenges, basic nursing education curriculum under investigation has not been evaluated since its introduct...
ABSTRACT This study examined the relative effectiveness of Family Counselling Therapy and the Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in reduce burnout among married working nursing mothers. The moderating effects of participants‘ personality type, childrearing styles and spousal communication on burnout of married working nursing mothers were also investigated. The study also sought to determine if participants‘ family size, gender of children, age at and length of marriage, educational qual...
ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of school self-evaluation training on improvement of basic schools in Brong-Ahafo Region, Ghana. A total of 85 Junior High School (JHS) teachers and 129 JHS two students were sampled from three public basic schools in the Sunyani Municipal Education directorate. The participants from the three selected schools were assigned to one of the two training groups or the control group. The municipality, circuits, schools and a JHS two stream were selected usi...
Abstract This article focuses on the critical roles of information communication technologies (ICTs) couple with its potentials and emerging challenges in fundamental development of individuals, institutions and government in developing and developed countries. The paper examines various developmental projects that had been carried out in most essentials area that affect the life of people; from rural communities to urban cities, and across the border lines of most countries. Thus, it brought...
Abstract The thrust of this study was to determine the effects of explanations and integration of ideas on secondary school chemistry students' acquisition of observing and inferring skills in Lagos State of Nigeria. The extent to which gender could influence observing and inferring skills acquisition in chemistry was also ascertained. A null hypothesis was tested. The study adopted a quasi- experimental research design where intact classes were subjected to two treatment groups (explanation...
Abstract The study investigated the effect of the knowledge of Mathematics on Achievement of Physics students in secondary School in Lagos State. The study employed a pre-test, post-test control group quasi experimental research design, using school types and gender as moderator variables. A sample size of one hundred and ninety-four (J 94) Physics students were purposively selected from jive (5) senior secondary school (two Private, one Federal and two Public Senior Secondary School in Lago...
ABSTRACT This study examined the effect of active and passive (walking, sitting and bending) recovery methods on athletes lactic acid removal after maximal exercise. A total of 15 male athletes (sprinters) with an average age of 25 years volunteered to participate in this study. Participants signed an informed consent form and were certified medically fit to participate in the study. The quasi-experimental method was adopted. Before the experimental test, height, weight, resting heart rate an...
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to examine the relevance and appropriateness of the dual management structure of medical education in Nigeria with a view to identifying the issues within the structure which affect organizational efficiency in the medical school. The study population comprised the 26 federal and state government owned medical schools in Nigeria. A total of 512 respondents made up of 422 academic staff from the rank of Senior Lecturers and 90 administrative/technical staff w...
ABSTRACT The need to identify the ‗real‘ gifted children in Nigeria for proper placement into gifted schools and the operationalization of giftedness concept prompted the development and validation of the Giftedness Assessment Instrument (GAI). Following the process of item construction, GAI comprises three components derived from several sources in a manner that retains the merits and eliminates the demerits of the sources, hence it is said to be integrated. The three components are: Ab...
ABSTRACT This study set out to assess the level of English Language grammatical proficiency of public primary schoolteachers in Lagos State and the opportunities available to them for continuous professional development in the use of language. It also aimed at providing remedial programme for the teachers in areas of observed deficiency. The study employed descriptive survey and the Pretest-Posttest Control Group Experimental designs. The sample consisted of 575 teachers drawn from six Local ...
ABSTRACT This study examined some variables that are linked to student choice of courses and the implications of this on the achievement of the millennium development goals. The relationship of course prestige, earning potentials and employment opportunities to choice of courses was examined. Likewise the level of parental influence and gender on the student choice of courses was investigated by the study. The study focused on conventional universities in South-West, Nigeria. Survey and corre...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine desirable teacher attributes as perceived by administrators, teachers and pupils. The study was justifiable in the sense that most educationists and policy makers in Nigeria focus attention on the teacher, in various attempts to improve the quality of education. The descriptive research design was employed. The stratified random sampling technique was employed in the selection of the fifteen participating secondary schools in Lagos state. Th...
What are the claims of sacrifice made by Siddhartha as Herman Hesse depicts As a great Buddha once said,“the sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.” This same concept applies to Siddhartha. Siddhartha has a lifelong journey to become enlightened. He gave up the people he loved and his own ...
ABSTRACT The research was designed to explore how Barack Obama constructs his self identities which enable him to get to power. This construction is reflected in his self life-writings including Dreams from My Father: A story of Race and Inheritance, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the AmericanDream and Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama’s Plan to RenewAmerica’s Promise. Postcolonial theories on identity construction were used for the reason that they reflect the multiple...