Adequacy and Utilization of ICT Resources for Teaching Business Subjects in Senior Secondary Schools in Osun State, Nigeria

This study sought to determine the adequacy and utilization of ICT facilities for teaching and learning business subjects in public senior secondary schools in Osun State of Nigeria. Mixed method research design involving the distribution of questionnaires and the conduct of follow-up interviews was used for the study. The population consisted of business educators teaching in public secondary schools. No sample was drawn; the entire population was studied. The results show that ICT facilities are barely available, grossly inadequate and largely unutilized in teaching business subjects in Osun State public secondary schools in spite of the much-heralded introduction of ”Opon Imo” computer tablets supposedly made available to all senior secondary school students in the state. The study opined that government and other education stakeholders should provide functional ICT facilities and personnel in public secondary schools.

An Investigation on Utilization of Internet and Television in Senior Secondary Schools in Rigachukun Inspectorate of Kaduna State in Nigeria

10.20944/preprints201911.0312.v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Oluwaseyi Fadele ◽

S Haruna ◽

Temiloluwa Amusan ◽

Samsom Oluwmuyiwa ◽

Nancy Onwuegbunam

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Internet Access ◽

School Students ◽

Learning And Teaching ◽

Use Of Internet ◽

Senior Secondary ◽

Good Number

An investigation was carried out to study the effects of television and internet on academic performance of senior secondary schools students in Rigachukun Inspectorate of Kaduna state. A well structured and designed questionnaire was adopted in eliciting information from the respondents. The respondents were sampled from schools within Kaduna state. The information obtained showed that the percentage of senior secondary school students who made use of internet for academic purpose was as much as those who could not operate a computer or even browse the internet. Good number of students applied internet mostly through phones and computer with internet access in solving their assignment. A larger percentage of students devoted their time to watching non-educative programs on television, even though it was discovered that some of them also watch educative programs. Positive impacts of television and internet are however obscuring and not glaring. Investigation carried out revealed that students in senior secondary schools need to be sensitized and oriented on how they can derive the best from internet and television. Schools should be encouraged in using television and internet as an instrument of learning and teaching.

Influence of Peer Pressure as a Determinant of Premarital Sexual Behaviour among Senior Secondary School Students in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Healthcare ◽

10.15415/jmrh.2017.32012 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 151-159

Author(s):

O L Badaki ◽

M F Adeola

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Sexual Behaviour ◽

Peer Pressure ◽

School Students ◽

Senior Secondary School ◽

Premarital Sexual ◽

This study investigated peer pressure influence on premarital sexual behaviour of senior secondary school students in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The population for the study comprised students in public senior secondary schools in the twenty-three Local Government Areas of Kaduna State. Simple random sampling was used to select Kaduna North senatorial zones from the three existing zones in Kaduna State. Nine schools from thirty-two senior secondary schools were randomly selected. The population of senior secondary schools in Kaduna North zone was 5,730 in 2010/2011. 50% (2,865) of the population was used as sample size. A total number of 1,655 males and 1,210 female students were used. In each of the nine (9) schools, 319 copies of questionnaire were administered to the Students using simple random sampling technique. The data collected were statistically analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean, and standard deviation. The hypothesis was tested using one sample Z-test at 0.05 level of significance. It was found that, there is significant influence of peer pressure on premarital sexual behaviour among senior secondary school students in Kaduna State, Nigeria. It was recommended, that Kaduna State Ministry of Education to intensify awareness programme on premarital sexual behaviour through workshops or seminars for the students on how to deal with peer pressure, and other social pressures that may lead to sexual intercourse.

Constraints in English Language Teaching and Learning in Senior Secondary Schools: Strategies for Implementation

International Journal of Linguistics Studies ◽

10.32996/ijls.2021.1.2.10 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 66-76

Author(s):

Steven Sylvester Bockarie ◽

Michael Sahr Bengu

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

English Language ◽

Language Teaching ◽

English Language Teaching ◽

Senior Secondary School ◽

Senior Secondary ◽

Language Teaching And Learning

The study entitled 'Constraints in English Language Teaching and Learning in Senior Secondary Schools: Strategies for Implementation' seeks to unravel the myriad of problems in teaching and learning the English Language in senior secondary schools and offers strategies that can be implemented to salvage the situation. Learning to teach is more than simply knowing the results of research and theory; it always involves learning the ‘craft’ of classroom exposition, explanation, organization, and guidance. The desired outcome of the language learning process is the ability to communicate competently, not the ability to the ability to use the language exactly as a native speaker does. To guide the study, three research questions were posed. The questions examined the following three variables: (1) the constraints in teaching English; (2) the constraints in learning English; and (3) strategies for implementation in senior secondary schools. The research will be carried out in two senior secondary schools in Kenema City, Eastern Sierra Leone (Government Senior Secondary School and Methodist Senior Secondary School). The study revealed that: the lack of adequate teaching and learning materials, poor pedagogical and academic subject matter competency, and the negative attitude of students towards the English Language, account for the major constraints in the teaching and learning of the subject.

Classroom Size as a Predictor of Bullying Behaviour among Secondary School Adolescents in Nigeria

Asian Journal of Education and Social Studies ◽

10.9734/ajess/2019/v3i430102 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

Bede C. Akpunne ◽

F. Lanre-Babalola ◽

Folake S. Alo

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

School Students ◽

Southwestern Nigeria ◽

Verbal Bullying ◽

Senior Secondary ◽

Physical Bullying

Aim: This study was carried out to investigate the patterns of bullying behaviour among Nigerian secondary school adolescents and to ascertain the link between classroom size and bullying in selected Senior Secondary Schools in Ogun State, Southwestern Nigeria. Study Design: Cross-sectional survey design. Place of Study: Redeemer’s University Osun State, South Western Nigeria. Methodology: Multistage sampling technique was adopted in this study. Random sampling technique was used to select Obafemi / Owode Local Government Area (LGA) from Ogun central senatorial district, four Senior Secondary Schools (SSS) from the LGA and 397 students. Participants responded to School Congestion Questionnaire (SCQ) and Adolescent Peer Relation Instrument: Bully/Target (APRI-BT). Descriptive and inferential statistics were used in data analysis Results: Observed prevalence rates included verbal bullying (42.5%), social bullying (42.3%), physical bullying (37.9%) and overall bullying behaviour (44.8%). Class Size (CS) independently and significantly predicted the severities of verbal bullying (R² = .029, p = .001); social bullying (R² = .055, p = .000); physical bullying (R² = .042, p = .000) and overall bullying behaviour (R² = .042, p = .000) among the sample. Conclusion: There is a high prevalence of bullying behaviour among Nigerian secondary school adolescents. Classroom size is a significant predictor of the individual factors of bullying behaviour (verbal bullying, social bullying, and physical bullying) as well as the composite of bullying behaviour among Senior Secondary School students in Nigeria.

Availability and Utilization of Instructional Materials for Teaching Mathematics in Senior Secondary Schools.

10.36265/ijired.2019.010108 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 59-65

Author(s):

Oni L. O.

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Simple Random Sampling ◽

Instructional Materials ◽

Teaching Mathematics ◽

School Students ◽

South West ◽

Global World ◽

The dwindling general performance of students in mathematics has been a source of concern to all stakeholders in education. This study investigated theavailability and utilization of instructional materials for teaching mathematics in senior secondary schools in Ibadan south-west local government, Oyo state, Nigeria. Tworesearch questions were formulated and descriptivesurveyresearch design was used for the study. Simple random sampling was used to select four schools and a sample size of 100 students participated in the study. Two instruments were developed to generate data for the study. The reliability coefficient values obtained were 0.7and 0.8 respectively. Data analysis involved the use of descriptive statistics. The result shows that 100 (100%) of the respondents indicated that textbooks are available, while 4 (4%) of the respondents claimed that textbooks are not available. Also, 99 (99%) of the respondents indicated that chalkboard are available and adequate, while only 1 (1%) of the respondents claimed that Chalkboard are not available. The instructional materials has mean of 2.2. Again, 20% of the respondents claimed that they highly utilized models, 10% indicated averagely utilized, 40% said slightly utilized while 30% indicated not utilized. From the findings on this study almost allthe respondents identified that textbooks and chalkboard are the most available and been utilisedinstructional materials for teaching mathematics in secondary schools.This implies that most schools still stick to conventional „chalk and talk‟ system of teaching mathematics which may not enable secondary school students to compete with their counterparts in the global world. Therefore, Proper utilization of other instructional materials such as models should be utilized to expose students beyond „chalk and talk‟ system of teaching which will also improve academic performance of students.

OPINIONS OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS ON DRUG ABUSE AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ZARIA EDUCATION ZONE, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

African Journal of Health, Safety and Environment ◽

10.52417/ajhse.v1i2.93 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 84-95

Author(s):

G.A. Samuel ◽

E.O. George ◽

B. N. Ogbu ◽

L. O. Agaba ◽

M. K. Yisa

Keyword(s):

Drug Abuse ◽

Secondary School ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Emotional Behavior ◽

World Population ◽

African Countries ◽

School Students ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Drug abuse and dependence producing substances are widely prevalent in African countries and have continued to increase. Substances abuse, which were originally conceived as the problem of a selected few is today becoming a problem of a sizeable proportions of the world population. A cross-sectional descriptive study design was used. Using Research advisor (2006) Sampling table, 365 students and 108 teachers were sampled using stratified random sampling technique out of 3812 and 156 study populations respectively. The instrument that was used for data collection was an adapted standardized questionnaire structured by Afuwai in 2016 who worked on drug abuse on socio-emotional behavior of secondary school students in Kaduna state, Nigeria (Afuwai, 2016). Hypothesis were tested using independent sample t-test at the .05 level of significance to determine whether there is a statistically significant difference between the means of the two unrelated groups. All statistics were done using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (IBM-SPSS version 24). The study shows that all kinds of drugs are being abused by senior secondary schools’ students in Kaduna State according to the opinions of the respondents with marijuana as the most commonly abuse drug while barbiturates (diazepam) is not a common abuse drug. An agglomeration of several factors influences the usage of drugs by senior secondary schools’ students in Zaria education Zone of Kaduna State as there were no specific factors found. The study established that female students are more predominant on abusing drugs than their male counterparts these days.

ATTITUDE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS TOWARDS AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND TRAININGS IN OGBOMOSO NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OYO STATE

International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH ◽

10.29121/granthaalayah.v7.i3.2019.952 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 130-135

Author(s):

Akintonde J.O. ◽

Akinboye O.A. ◽

Tiamiyu A.O. ◽

Akintaro O.S. ◽

Gbadamosi S.A. ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Secondary School ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Personal Characteristic ◽

Local Government Area ◽

School Students ◽

Senior Secondary School ◽

The study assesses the attitude of senior secondary school students towards agriculture as a profession in some selected secondary schools in Ogbomoso North Local Government Area of Oyo State. One hundred respondents were randomly selected from five senior secondary schools purposively selected due to their questionnaire. The data obtained were analyzed with the aid of frequency count, percentages and cumulative percentage while correlation analysis was used to test the hypothesis. The findings reveal the personal characteristic of the respondents sampled as well as their level of interest in agriculture as a profession. The statistical analysis performed on the respondents’ attitude towards agriculture as a profession revealed that there was significant relationship to the respondents’ gender, educational level father and mother’s occupation respectively while age and religion were statistically insignificant.

Acquiring Basic Chemistry Concepts through Virtual learning in Nigerian Senior Secondary Schools

IJOLAE Indonesian Journal on Learning and Advanced Education ◽

10.23917/ijolae.v2i1.7832 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 47-58

Author(s):

Michael Olubunmi Odewumi ◽

Ayotunde Atanda Falade ◽

Adewale Olusegun Adeniran ◽

David Akinjide Akintola ◽

Grace O. Oputa ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Virtual Learning ◽

Chemistry Laboratory ◽

Achievement Level ◽

School Students ◽

Senior Secondary School ◽

Chemistry Students ◽

Virtual learning has emerged as an ideal platform for learning. Different e-learning packages has been developed to solve instructional problems globally, but in Nigeria few instructors are aware of the usage of this technologies. Therefore, the study examined the acquisition of basic chemistry practical through virtual among Senior Secondary School students in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State. Nigeria. The study further considered gender and achievement level of the students taught with virtual learning.A survey designed method was adopted, sample constituted of 28 Senior Secondary School II Chemistry students, of which fourteen (14) were male and fourteen (14) also female. The results reveal that virtual learning enhances students’ understanding of laboratory chemistry concepts, acquisition and improve performances in chemistry as an alternative to actual chemistry laboratory in Nigerian Senior Secondary Schools.

Motivation to Learning Mathematics and Gender as Correlates of Senior Secondary School Students’ Performance in Mathematics

JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES ◽

10.31258/jes.4.2.p.318-333 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 318

Author(s):

Adeneye O. A. Awofala ◽

Abisola O. Lawani ◽

Olayinka A. Adeyemi

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Motivation To Learn ◽

School Students ◽

Senior Secondary School ◽

Learning Mathematics ◽

And Gender ◽

This study investigated senior secondary school students’ motivation to learning mathematics and gender as correlates of performance in mathematics. The sample consisted of 315 students from two government senior secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria using the quantitative research method within the blueprint of the descriptive survey research design. Data collected were analysed using percentages, means, standard deviation, independent samples t-test, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) and standard and stepwise multiple linear regression analysis. Findings from the study revealed that there was a very high level of motivation to learn mathematics among senior secondary schools’ students in Nigeria. There was a significant influence of gender on students’ performance in mathematics but not on motivation to learn mathematics. It was also revealed that self-efficacy, gender and intrinsic motivation were the major significant predictors of performance in mathematics among the sample studied. Based on these findings, future studies in Nigeria should attempt to investigate the psychometric properties of the motivation to learn mathematics scale.

Relationships among senior school students’ self-efficacy, metacognition and their achievement in chemistry

Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences ◽

10.18844/cjes.v14i2.2564 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 208-221

Author(s):

Oloyede Solomon Oyelekan ◽

Seun Sola Jolayemi ◽

Johnson Enero Upahi

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Simple Random Sampling ◽

School Students ◽

Senior Secondary School ◽

Reliability Indices ◽

Learners play very significant roles in the teaching–learning process. Irrespective of how teachers teach, learners often have their own ways of learning. Three hundred senior secondary school II students selected from 10 senior secondary schools in Ilorin, Nigeria participated in the study. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 30 students from each of the 10 purposively sampled senior secondary schools. Data were collected using three instruments, namely, Chemistry Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, Chemistry Metacognition Questionnaire and Chemistry Achievement Test with reliability indices of 0.83, 0.73 and 0.86, respectively. Answers were provided to four research questions each of which has a corresponding hypothesis. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using Pearson Product Moment Correlation, regression and analysis of variance. Findings from the study indicates significant positive relationship among senior secondary school students’ Chemistry self-efficacy, metacognition and their achievement in Chemistry F(2, 297) = 332.482, p < 0.05. Keywords: Academic achievement, metacognition, self-efficacy, senior secondary schools.