ABSTRACT This research project sought to find the challenges faced by teachers and learners at ECE level in the school, then find solutions to the challenges. Questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussions were used to collect data for this research. The researcher investigated from parents on the challenges faced by both the teacher and the learner in an inclusive setting and also what their recommendations were concerning the challenges that were raised. The findings from the data c...
ABSTRACT Composition writing helps learners to acquire writing skills. However, students’ performance in Kiswahili composition at the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination shows that national performance has been fluctuating with a mean of 14.20 in 2008, 15.40 in 2009, 14.32 in 2010, 16.43 in 2011 and 10.43 in 2012 out of 40 marks. From year 2008 to 2012, Kisumu West Sub-County students’ performance in the Joint Evaluation Test (JET) shows that performance was lower ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to find out challenges associated with the implementation of inclusion at Mphahlela Primary School in Nkulumane, Bulawayo The study adopted descriptive survey. The instruments used were questionnaire and interviews. Five parents were interviewed together with nine teachers from Early Childhood department. In this study it was found out that there are challenges in the implementation of inclusion which are shortage of resources, inadequate infrastructure a...
ABSTRACT Countries all over the world use devolved funding to finance education in terms of construction of schools, paying school fees for the needy through bursary and developing school infrastructure. Studies in United States of America, United Kingdom, South-Africa and Malawi have revealed that devolved funding has been used to enhance access, equity and quality of education. However, access, equity and quality of secondary education have caused concern within some parts of Sub-Saharan Af...
ABSTRACT The study assessed factors influencing use of Computer Technology in teaching of Mathematics in secondary schools in Nakuru Town sub-counties, Kenya. Research done in developed countries had found that Computer Technology use in teaching was very little in teaching Mathematics. Its use help students learn by supporting computation and by giving abstract ideas a more perceptible form and therefore significant for Mathematics subject which is poorly performed. Existing literature shows...
ABSTRACT This study examined the fidelity of implementation and eficcacy of Universal Basic Education (UBE) Programme in Kwara State. It investigated the gap between policy formulation and policy implementation in the UBE programme. The belief by various stakeholders in education that the huge investments made in the UBE programme had not been correspondingly compensated for by improved efficiency in basic education classes precipitated this study. A descriptive survey research design was use...
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 The study was designed to ascertain the opinions, level of satisfaction (acceptability), and the sources of dissatisfaction of members of the University of Lagos community regarding the current strategies toward self-reliance of the University of Lagos. It was also to ascertain the perception of the operational managers of the self- reliance programmes of the institutions, about the problems in the implementation and suggestions for future practice and to analyse certain identified t...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study was to investigate the different ways in which adults in Nigeria utilised radio for learning modern ideas. To this end, a random sample of six hundred adults, who owned or had access to radio sets was carried out. The geographical representation from which the selection was made were Ogun, Niger and Anambra states. Three urban and three rural communities, each with 100 respondents were selected. With the use of a questionnaire, they were asked to indi...
ABSTRACT The study reported here was prompted by the quest for an information about the degree or extent to which the Federal Government Core Curriculum for Primary Science 1980 is being implemented in Cross River State. Furthermore, there was the quest for confirming or refuting the appropriateness of the objective model for instructional planning which was used for the primary science programme. The purpose of the study that was in three parts, was to discover: (a) the patterns of instructi...
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 The paper explores the interplay of sarcasm threshing and music during threshing of finger millet. In this paper the combination of work rhythm and sarcasm during jakwara is regarded as a tripartite system in which the social commentary phenomenon is enacted.
Abstract As the world is fast becoming a global village due to technological advancement musical element among other things have ceased to solely belong to their cultural proponent different musical culture are merging in a process of diffusionism thereby forming rainbow musical cultures.
ABSTRACT Bacterial counts of samples of freshly caught shrimp3, Penaeus duorarum and of see water from Nigeria, were carried out for a period of ton months, from April 1975 to January 1976. A monthly variation in the size of the bacterial populations of shrimps and son water was observed. Gram-positive bacteria were generally more abundantly isolated than Gram-negative bacteria from shrimps and 998 water. Coryneforns predominated the isolates. Next in abundance were micrococci, followed by s...
ABSTRACT The quest for the improvement in students' performance based upon their learning efforts in chemistry has continued unabated. This quest has led to the uncovering of new needs which con ameliorate both the teaching and learning transactions. Derived from theoretical and empirical work, the new needs, include the enjoyment of practicals, provision in lecturer-student interaction, and student involvement in decision taking. The present study is aimed at designing, implementing and eval...