ABSTRACT The study investigated the impact of preretirement counselling and retirement Stress perceptions of selected Secondary School teachers in Lagos. A quasi experimental pre-test post-test control group design was adopted for the study. Six research hypotheses were tested at 0.05 alpha level. Four of the hypotheses were accepted while two were rejected. One hundred and fifty (150) teachers from Education District IV made up of Apapa, Mainland and Surulere in Lagos State public schools we...
ABSTRACT This study investigated differential perception of educational stakeholders on Guidance and counseling practices in senior secondary schools in the 218t century. The sample comprised one hundred and fifty (150) youths (75 males and 75 females) who were randomly chosen from Kosofe Local Government Area, District IT in Lagos State. Three research hypotheses were formulated and tested in the study. The instrument comprised researchers constructed questionnaire which measured perception...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the impact of intervention programmes on emotional intelligence skills and academic achievement of senior secondary school students in Lagos, Nigeria. Emotional intelligence skills in this study are interpersonal, leadership, self-management and intrapersonal skills. The intervention programmes are Emotional Learning System (ELS) and Peer Mentoring (PM). A quasi-experimental pre-test/ post-test, control group design was adopted for the study. The initial sa...
ABSTRACT Essentially, this long essay examines the impact of technology on educational development. The background study covers the area of the long essay’s focus, the significance of the study, the need of the study, the scope of the study and definition of terms which forms the chapter one of as the study. Chapter two examines the impact of technology on education laying emphasis on technology’s impact on learning, impact of technology on the education system and the technology’...
ABSTRACT This study is on the relationship among Self-concept and Motivation for Occupational Preference of students in some selected senior secondary schools in Sokoto metropolis. A total number of three hundred and thirty three (333) students were selected as sample for the study; also a total number of nine (9) schools were purposively selected out of forty-three (43) schools in the metropolis. The Two Instruments used for the research were: Adopted version of Akinboye Adolescent...
ABSTRACT The march towards progress and modern development is of first priority to most countries of the underdeveloped world. Consequently, it is imperative that inhabitants of these areas begin the search for solutions to this problems based on empirical findings regarding its approach and content. The purpose of this study is to verify the effects of a communication workshop (CW) on attitudes conducive to modern development. Modern development here is limited to individual psychological ...
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 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 The present study is concerned with the cross-cultural differences in selective attention among the ethnic groups of the ibo and Yoruba catholic adolescents of Nigeria. The general hypothesis that the Yoruba adolescents are more likely than the ibos to possess audio-visual skill in selective attention was proposed. A group of two hundred 16 year old adolescent boys and girls for this study were randomly drawn from four catholic secondary schools. Six experiments in selective attenti...
ABSTRACT This study investigated childhood experiences and adolescent delinquent behaviour among remand home inmates in Lagos, Nigeria. It hence sought to ascertain the contributions of; corporal punishment, parental use of invectives, parental abandonment and parental deprivation to adolescent delinquency.
Abstract This study investigated the assessment and remediation of some perceived difficult concepts in mathematics among selected students in some Lagos State Senior Secondary Schools.
ABSTRACT The study undertook an assessment and management of commitment and conflict experienced by educated stay-at-home mothers in Lagos state, Nigeria. It is pertinent to note that conflict refers to low self-esteem, lack of effective family relationship, loss in terms of identity and financial independence. A quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test, control group design was adopted for the study. The initial sample consisted of 150 educated mothers comprising 75 working mothers and 75 sta...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to determine the effectiveness of two behaviour modification strategies namely: Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) and Life Skills Education on assessment and management of psychosocial and academic problems of working secondary school students in Lagos State, Nigeria. A total of one hundred and eighty working secondary school students (84 males and 96 females) with mean age of 13.78 years were identified from the initial sample of six hundred stude...
ABSTRACT This study compared the performance of male and female secondary school students in Sokoto State using Government Day Secondary School, Arkilla, Sokoto as a case study. The research centered on finding out the level of performance of secondary school students in Sokoto State and the factors that militate against good performance of secondary school students; as factors such as poverty, inadequate and obsolete infrastructural facilities, indiscipline, and inappropriate curriculum...