scholarly journals The Effect of Insecurity on Quality Tertiary Education in Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Nwakpa
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Reliability Index ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
State University ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
Study Questionnaire

The study was conducted in Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, to investigate the effect of insecurity on quality tertiary education in Nigeria. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of insecurity on quality of tertiary education and to evolve strategies to solve the problem the study was guided by four research questions. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. Five hundred respondents were used for the study. Questionnaire instrument was used to gather data for the study. Mean and standard were used to answer the research questions. The instrument was validated by 3 experts. The reliability index effects of the instrument was 0.78 the study found causes, of insecurity in tertiary educational institutions, and strategies to be employed. Finally, the study made some recommendations to include, full implementation of the suggested strategies.

scholarly journals Indiscipline among Staff of Ebonyi State Owned Tertiary Educational Institutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Nwakpa
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
State Government ◽  
Reliability Index ◽  
T Test ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
State University ◽  
Alpha Level ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Enugu State ◽  
Level Of Significance

The study investigated the nature, causes, effects of indiscipline among staff of tertiary educational institutions owned by Ebonyi State government and strategies to be adopted in order to curb indiscipline among the staff. The study was guided by four research questions and three null hypotheses. The population of the study was 500 respondents. Questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents. The questionnaire was validated by five experts from the department of Science Education of Enugu State University of Science and Technology. The reliability index of the instrument was 0.84 obtained through test-retest procedure via pearson’s product moment correlation. Mean scores were used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to analyze the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The results of the study revealed the nature, causes, effects and strategies to be adopted to curb indiscipline among staff of tertiary educational institutions owned by Ebonyi State government. Based on the findings, some recommendations were made to include, the adoption of the recommended and accepted strategies to curb indiscipline among staff of Ebonyi State owned tertiary educational institutions.     

scholarly journals Competency Improvement needs of Women in Agriculture in Processing Cocoyam into Flour and Chips for Food Security in South Eastern Nigeria

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J A Ukonze ◽  
S O Olaitan
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
Women In Agriculture ◽  
Processing Enterprise

This study focused on the identification of competency improvement needs of women in agriculture (WIA) in processing cocoyam into flour and chips. To achieve these objectives, four research questions guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. The study was conducted in South-eastern Nigeria made up of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo State The target population for this study was 362 women processors. It was found out that women processors required improvement in cocoyam processing enterprise as follows: planning competencies (12 competency items), processing cocoyam into flour (13 competency items), processing cocoyam into chips (13 competency items) and marketing (7 competency items). It was therefore recommended that co-operatives, government agencies, and relevant NGOs should help use the findings of this study to improve acquisition of competencies of women in cocoyam processing for food security in South-Eastern Nigeria.

scholarly journals An investigation into the challenges facing the planning of manpower

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 100-110
Author(s):  
Ogunode Niyi Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Capacity Development ◽  
Manpower Planning ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Study Questionnaire

The study investigated the challenges facing the planning of manpower in the educational institutions in F.C.T, Abuja, Nigeria. We used survey research design for this study. Questionnaire was adopted for this study. The questionnaire was tagged ”Investigate the challenges facing the planning of manpower in the educational institutions Questionnaire” The reliability of the instrument was determined through the use of test and re-test method. 80 educational planners and educational officers in charge of manpower planning in the ministry, department and agency of education were selected for the study through the use of purposive sampling method. Seven hypotheses were formulated by the researchers for the study. Mean, simple percentage and chi-square was used to analyze the information collected from the study. Data collected for the purpose of this study was collated, analyzed and the following was drawn that inadequate data/information, shortage of professional planners in manpower, inadequate working materials, poor capacity development of educational planners, political instability, lack of political and inadequate planning funds are the challenges facing the planning of manpower in the educational sector in F.C.T, Abuja.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Information Seeking and Utilization Among Women in Warri Metropolis, Delta State, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Esharenana E. Adomi ◽  
Gloria O. Oyovwe-Tinuoye
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Mobile Network ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
Mobile Network Operators

The study is intended to explore COVID-19 information seeking and utilization among women in Warri Metropolis, Delta State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was adopted using a self-constructed questionnaire to collect data. Data were analyzed using simple percentages. Findings revealed that a majority of the women need information on COVID-19 preventive measures, followed by causes of the pandemic; Internet is the source of COVID-19 information used by the highest number of respondents, followed by television and social media; a majority of them consider the authority of the source of the information on coronavirus followed by usefulness of the information; a majority access COVID-19 information to enable them identify symptoms of the disease followed by protection against COVID-19 infection while concern for reliability of much of the available information on the pandemic was a major barrier to their utilization of COVID-19 information. It is recommended that effort should be made by government to get mobile network operators to reduce network tariff.

scholarly journals INSECURITY AND NIGERIA’S SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A SURVEY

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-81
Author(s):  
James WOJUADE
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
Frequency Counts

This study examined insecurity as the bane of Nigeria’s socio-economic development. The study adopted a descriptive survey research. The study was guided by two research questions. The participants for this study comprised one hundred and fifty (150) educated people/youth selected from Ona-Ara local government area of Ibadan metropolis. Insecurity as the bane of socio-economic development in Nigeria questionnaire was the instrument used for this study. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics such as frequency counts and percentage. Findings revealed that ethno-religious conflicts and unemployment are among the factors responsible for insecurity in Nigeria. Social dislocation, population displacement, disruption of family and communal life are some of the impacts of insecurity on Nigeria’s socio-economic development. It is recommended that government should ensure that social security programme is pursued and systematically implemented to ensure that the populace meets their basic needs.

scholarly journals Developing Research Competence of Teachers as a Way of Increasing Competitiveness of HEIs in Kazakhstan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariya Begunova ◽  
Xu Qingyu
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Research Competence ◽  
World Languages ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Research Questions

Abstract The present article shows the findings of a basic quantitative research of the teachers’ research competence and its influence on higher educational institutions’ (hereafter: HEI) competitiveness on the sample of Kazakh University of International Relations &World Languages after Ablaikhan (hereafter: KazUIR&WL). Using the method of questionnaire, the study investigates the level of satisfaction of the students and parents with the education quality in KazUIR&WL, their needs and expectations, as well as shows the linkage between teachers’ research competence and the quality of education. The research involves 19 teachers, 70 students and 70 parents, who present their opinions by answering both open-ended and close-ended questions. The present research is inductive non-experimental and helps build a strong theoretical platform for generating further research questions. The main purpose of the research is mostly an assessment of the current situation in teaching English in Kazakhstan, with elements of evaluation and description. In this aspect, the current study can become a good scientific background for generating further research ideas in the sphere of education, linguistics, methodology, history, foreign culture studies and others. The method used in the present research is the method of questioning.

scholarly journals Extent of Academic Achievement of Day and Boarding Secondary Schools Students in Anambra State, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Okoye Faith Ogechukwu ◽  
Nnamani Patience Chika
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
School Students ◽  
Anambra State ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
Better Than

The study examined the extent of Academic Achievement of Day and Boarding Secondary Schools Students in Onitsha Education Zone of Anambra State. Three research questions guided the study and survey research design was adopted. Descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population of the study consisted 850 teachers within Onitsha Education Zone in Anambra State. The sample size consisted 85 teachers and was selected using simple random sampling. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire and the data collected were analyzed with mean. The findings revealed that boarding students academically achieve better than day students and that day students are distracted at home unlike boarding school students who are under the control of teachers for their study. It was concluded that lack of finance, educational facilities and inadequate infrastructures are the factors that affect the academic achievement of both the day and boarding students. The researchers recommended among others that students should be allowed to attend boarding schools so as to perform better and that government should intervene in schools by providing them with academic and boarding facilities

Extent of the use of clinical supervision model for teaching practice supervision in Imo State University, Owerri

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. e12740
Author(s):  
Stanley U. Nnorom ◽  
Vivian Ngozi Nwogbo ◽  
Obinna Nonso Anachuna
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
State University ◽  
Imo State ◽  
Supervision Model ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
Observational Techniques

The seeming decline in the quality of teachers in Nigeria necessitated this study. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. Four research questions guided the study while three hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population of the study comprised 323 respondents made up of 240 final students and 83 lecturers in the seven Departments of the faculty of Education Imo State University, Owerri. The entire population was used for the study. A researcher developed questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The instrument was validated by three experts. The Cronbach’s alpha method was used to determine the internal consistency of the items and it yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.74. The researchers with the help of four research assistants distributed and successfully collected 298 copies of the questionnaire administered. The research questions were answered using the mean, while the hypotheses were tested using z-test at 0.05 level of significance. It was found among others that pre-observational techniques were used to a very low extent t in Imo state university Owerri for teaching practice supervision. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that conference, workshops and seminars should be organized for lecturers at Imo State University where various techniques of clinical supervision will be exposed to them towards ensuring qualitative teaching practice supervision.

Setting Up an Online Survey Instrument for Effective Quantitative Cross-Tabulation Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-29
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Survey Instrument ◽  
Research Context ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Cross Tabulation ◽  
Analyze Data

The building of an online survey instrument involves sophisticated understandings of the research context, research design, research questions, and other elements. A lesser observed need is to consider what types of data analytics will be applied to the findings. With beginning-to-end online survey research suites, it becomes all the more necessary to think through the process from beginning to end in order to create an instrument that achieves all the necessary aims of the research. After all, improper online survey instrument designs will result in makework when it comes time to analyze data and will foreclose on particular data analytics opportunities. (Such instruments also will not have second or third uses after the first one-off.) This chapter explores how to build an effective online survey instrument to enable a quantitative cross tabulation analysis with the built-in analysis Qualtrics.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship Education in Public Universities in Ekiti State, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Aina M. Adebayo
Keyword(s):  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Reliability Test ◽  
State University ◽  
University Curriculum ◽  
Lecture Method ◽  
To Receive

The inclusion of entrepreneurship education to university curriculum is to make the content more functional. However, it seems that entrepreneurship education has not been achieving its objectives in Nigeria. The main purpose of this study was to compare entrepreneurship education in two public universities in Ekiti State. The survey research design was adopted. The sample of the study consisted of 101 lecturers/trade experts from these universities. Two questionnaires were used to collect data. The instruments were validated by two lecturers from Ekiti State University (EKSU) and the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE). The reliability test yielded a coefficient of 0.73. The findings showed that lecture method was mostly used in the two institutions, among others. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that adequate instructional materials should be provided. Also, the use of field trip is recommended to enable the students to receive first-hand information about these entrepreneurship trades from the appropriate companies/sites/industries, among others.

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