ABSTRACT This study investigated the relative effectiveness of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Reality Therapy in managing adolescent psychosocial problems such as low self-esteem, depression, aggression and anxiety. The moderating effect of gender was also examined. A total of 150 adolescents with mean age of 17.8 years drawn from three orphanages in Lagos and Ogun States of Nigeria constituted the final sample. They were made up of 81 males and $9 females. The study utilized an experimental...
ABSTRACT This study sought to identity the home based factors that influence discipline among students in public secondary schools in Nzaui Sub-county, Makueni County, Kenya. The research objectives of the study were to determine the influence of parental economic status, parenting styles and family background on discipline among secondary school students in Nzaui Sub-County. The research design adopted in this study was the descriptive survey. Due to the high number of students in the distri...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the management effectiveness of continuing education centres in Ogun state. Basically, it focused on ascertaining the level of effectiveness of the coordinators of continuing education centres in managing learners' time, instruction process, human and material resources and its influence on learners' academic performance. In pursuance of the aim of the study, five research questions were raised and five hypotheses formulated and tested in the course of the stu...
This paper investigates the schools in Lagos Sate. It assesses the profile of twenty private secondary schools, the library collections and their organization, staffing, physical whose parents are at the mercy of these private school owners who charge very exorbitant fees. The evaluation was based on the “Federal Ministry of Education and Youth Development minimum standards for school libraries in Nigeria.” The findings reveal that as expensive as these schools are library resources in so...
Abstract Guidance and Counseling in secondary schools in Kenya is of major concern especially after" the ban on corporal punishment. School administrators in secondary schools have been given the mandate to establish and maintain effective Guidance and Counseling services in the schools. However, the situation on the ground reveals that Guidance and Counseling services are not effective in many schools in Kenya. The study assessed the influence of school administration in promoting effective ...
ABSTRACT Despite education being one of the basic human rights and an empowerment prerequisite, there are various factors that affect the provision of quality education in inclusive public primary schools in Kenya. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of teacher characteristic on pupil‟s academic performance in KCPE in inclusive classroom in public primary schools in Narok North sub-County in Narok County, Kenya. The objectives of the study were to assess; the effect of teac...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to establish the influence of principals’ selected administrative tasks on teachers’ motivation in public secondary schools in Kibwezi East Sub-County, Makueni County, Kenya. The study was guided by five research objectives. The research objectives sought to determine the influence of principal’ planning task on teachers’ motivation in public secondary schools; assess the influence of principals’ organizational leadership task on teachers’ mo...
Introduction The thirst for knowledge has always led humans to seek education, and as such many countries of the world, including Nigeria, place a high premium on the education of their citizens. Adjudged the most populous country in Africa and the eighth most populous country in the world with a population of over 150million, Nigeria is located on the Atlantic coast in West Africa, bordered by Benin on the West, Niger and Chad on the North, and Cameroon on the East (Academic American Encycl...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the relationship between input and process variables and school effectiveness in private secondary schools in Lagos State. The input variables were teacher qualification, teacher experience and equipment and facilities while the process variables were leader behaviour, school environment, academic emphasis, teacher expectations and monitoring of students' progress. The study is a descriptive survey research, carried out ex-post facto. The stratified random sam...
ABSTRACT A major economic policy of the first military regime in Nigeria, 1966-79, was the indigenisation of the national economy. The aim was to put Nigerians, to a greater extent, in control of the economy of the nation. The history of the nation's indigenisation policy, close to policy flirtation by the colonial masters, was broached in 1946, and again in 1956. In 1964, under a post-colonial government, the policy was mooted, but a concrete formulation, perhaps delayed because of the polit...
ABSTRACT This work examines how Federal Government Colleges in Nigeria obtain, allocate, utilize resources and evaluates the influence this has on the academic performances of the students. The study employed a descriptive research design. Data was collected from a sample of 745 respondents selected from 12 schools located in South West geo-political zone of Nigeria. The respondents were students in SSS3, teachers, Vice Principals and Principals, and the Director General in charge of Finance ...
Introduction University library websites constitute important access points to online resources for library users including persons with disabilities. This is evidenced by the United Nations’ adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which guarantees that people with disabilities have the same access and opportunities as everyone else to participate in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private settings ...
ABSTRACT The scourge of out-of-school children is real in Nigeria today. It is a common sight to see school-age children, particularly teenagers, who are supposed to be in school roaming the streets. Some are found outside the school performing one form of economic activity of another. Some have been to school but did not complete their education while some of them have never been to school at all. Some of these out of-school children, especially the school dropouts, claimed to have acquired ...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the effects of guided discovery approach on students’ academic performance in ecology among Senior Secondary I students in Sokoto metropolis. The population of the study comprised of 13,045 students offering Biology in the 43 secondary schools within Sokoto metropolis. The researcher used stratified random sampling to select the sample 521 students and used purposive sampling technique to select intact classes from each sampled school. The instruments used f...
Abstract This study was conducted to assess the impact of past adult literacy programmes on the educational attainment of the indigenes of the ten (10) villages of Gumbi District in Wamakko Local Government Area of Sokoto State. Three populations were used. The first population was 361 educated persons in the ten villages; the second population was 425 ex-literacy programme participants, while the third one was 57 officials/community leaders. Three instruments were used in data collection. Th...