Evaluating Reading Habit among Junior Secondary School Students in Ekiti State in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Babalola Olurotimi Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Reading Habit ◽  
School Students ◽  
Junior Secondary School ◽  
Junior Secondary ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Multistage Sampling

Abstract The study evaluated reading habit among students in Ekiti State Secondary Schools. The study specifically examined the frequency and time of reading among Junior Secondary School students in Ekiti State, the extent students read, how teachers’ attitudes affect their students reading habits, and ways reading habit can be improved. The descriptive research design of the survey type was adopted in this study. The population for the study consisted all of the Junior Secondary School Students in public secondary schools in Ekiti \central senatorial district. The size of the sample was 200 students drawn from ten public secondary schools using multistage sampling technique. A self-structured questionnaire tagged Reading Habit Questionnaire (RHQ) was used to collect relevant data for the study. The responses obtained were collated and analyzed using descriptive statistics. The findings revealed that most of the students rarely read as majority of them spend less than 2 hours daily on reading. They settle down to read only when given assignments or when examination was near. Based on the findings, it is therefore recommended among others that parents should teach their children to start reading from an early age and should provide reading materials for them. Also, it was recommended that teachers should engage students in fervent reading and writing activities. Keywords: Reading, Habit, Library, Descriptive, Revealed Students Teachers

scholarly journals Investigating the Impediments to Reading Comprehension in Junior Secondary Schools: Evidence from JSSII Students in Nsukka Metropolis

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaiah I. Agbo ◽  
Goodluck C. Kadiri ◽  
Joekin Ekwueme
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
School Students ◽  
Junior Secondary School ◽  
Junior Secondary

There has been an outcry concerning Junior Secondary School students’ abysmal performance in reading comprehension in internal and external examinations in Nsukka Metropolis; hence, the reason to investigate the factors responsible for this abysmal performance becomes necessary. We adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of this study comprises one hundred (100) Junior Secondary School II students from five (5) randomly selected secondary schools in Nsukka Metropolis. The sampling technique which the researchers adopted was the simple random sampling and utilized questionnaire as research instrument which was developed on a 4-point scale of strongly agree, agree, strongly disagree and disagree. Again, a reading comprehension test was administered to the students for correlational purposes. Statistical analysis was used. The findings showed that students performed very poorly in reading comprehension as a result of inadequate and unqualified language teachers, inadequate instructional materials, poor educational background of both students and parents, and the language style and background of some comprehension texts. The implication is that students’ comprehension ability maybe determined by their ability to recognize individual words in a passage or text, group words into units and relate those units into meaningful sentences or paragraphs. When students are able to do the above, they will surely have a meaningful comprehension of a text at these three distinct levels of comprehension: (i) factual; (ii) interpretative; and (ii) evaluative. Thus the researchers made strong suggestions and recommendations that would mitigate these problems.

scholarly journals EFFECT OF MULTIMODAL STRATEGIES ON THE LEARNING OF LISTENING SKILLS AMONG JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SOKOTO METROPOLIS, SOKOTO STATE, NIGERIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Chinyere Onyebuchi ◽  
Mohammed Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
School Students ◽  
Junior Secondary Schools ◽  
Junior Secondary School ◽  
Moment Coefficient ◽  
Junior Secondary

This research investigated the effect of multimodal strategies of teaching listening skills in Junior Secondary Schools in Sokoto metropolis, Sokoto State. The objective was to find out if using multimodal strategies to teach listening skills will enhance their learning when compared to traditional method. The population was 59,265 JSS students in Sokoto Metropolis. Stratified sampling technique was used to select the schools while random sampling technique was used to select one intact class from each school. Thus, the sample size was 394 JSS1 students. The instrument used for collecting data after treatment was Listening Level Test (LLT). Thirty questions were designed with options A, B and C. A group of 10 questions were set relating to each of the listening type: attitudinal, informative and appreciative. The validity of the instrument was determined by some Junior Secondary School English teachers and language education experts in the Department of Curriculum Studies and Educational Technology, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.  Pilot study was conducted on twenty students through test-re-tests method to determine the reliability of the study.  The results were correlated using Pearson’s Product Moment Coefficient formula which produced a reliability index of 0.83. The data collected after administration of the treatment was analyzed using mean, standard deviation to answer the research questions and t-test to test the null hypotheses of the research. It was found that multimodal strategies enhanced the listening comprehension skills of the subjects. The researchers recommended that teachers should use multimodal strategies to teach listening skills in junior secondary schools so as to help students perform very better in listening skills.

scholarly journals Effect of Assertiveness Technique in Reducing Verbal Victimization among Junior Secondary School Students in Anambra State

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
V. N. Nwadinobi ◽  
L. I. Akunne ◽  
A. V. Etele
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Anambra State ◽  
Junior Secondary School ◽  
Junior Secondary ◽  
The Mean

Aims: The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of assertiveness technique in reducing verbal victimization among junior secondary school students in Anambra state. Study Design: The design adopted for this study is pure experimental design. Place and Duration of Study: The target population is 1182 junior secondary students identified to be verbally victimized. The duration is between January 2021 and June 2021. Methodology: The design adopted for this study is the pure experimental. Two secondary schools where adopted for the study, from the two secondary schools, one group served as treatment/experimental group and the other school served as control group with participants randomly assigned. These participants were identified by administering a structured questionnaire structured by the researchers. The population for the study comprised 1182 junior secondary students identified to be verbally victimized. The sample was drawn using the purposive sampling technique, this was to identify schools with students that are verbally victimized. A total of 104 students (54 male and 50 female) were drawn and randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups as sample for the study. The instrument for data collection was the bullying victimization scale (BVS), the scale was developed and validated based on Elvis (1996) questionnaire and normalized for Nigerian cultural situation. Data collected for this study were organized in table and were analyzed. Data relating to the answering of research questions were analyzed using the mean. While the data relating to the testing of hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance was analyzed using Analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA). Results: At 0.05 level of significance, the analysis of the data collected revealed that the experimental group had a mean gain difference of 3.29 over the control group, the result further revealed that male students had a mean gain difference of 21.54 over the female students. This indicates that assertiveness technique was more effective on male junior secondary school students than their female counterparts. The findings revealed there was no difference in the mean post test scores of students who received treatment using assertiveness technique and those in the control group (p = 0.416, 0.05). also there was a significant difference in the mean post test scores of male and female secondary school students (p=0.026, 0.05). Conclusion: Through the findings that emerged from the study, it is concluded that the assertiveness technique is effective in reducing verbal victimization among junior secondary school students in Anambra state. Hence, counsellors in secondary schools should adopt assertiveness counselling techniques during counselling sessions to reduce the increased rate of verbal victimization in schools.

scholarly journals Factors affecting behaviours that address HIV risk among a sample of junior secondary school students in the Northern Province, South Africa

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Hiv Risk ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Northern Province ◽  
School Students ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Junior Secondary School ◽  
Junior Secondary

The purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting HIV risk reduction among junior secondary school pupils in South Africa. Opsomming Die doel van hierdie studie was om HIV risiko reduksie faktore onder junior sekondêre skool leerlinge in Suid-Afrika te identifiseer. *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.

Mathematical Communication Skills of Junior Secondary School Students in Coastal Area

2013 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadir, Jl ◽  
Mayjen S. Parman
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Coastal Area ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mathematical Communication ◽  
Junior Secondary School ◽  
Junior Secondary

Mathematical communication skills of junior secondary school students in coastal area are still considered low due to the lack of contextual problem technique in the teaching of mathematics. The various potencies of the coastal area have been damaged without any concern. It is interesting to investigate the contextual problem in mathematics teaching because it can be identified, required, and related to everyday life. The objective of this study is to enhance mathematical communication skills of junior secondary school students in the coastal area. Using coastal-based contextual teaching and learning (CCTL) can enhance: (1) students’ mathematical communication skills better than conventional teaching and learning (CVTL); and (2) the students’ learning activity, fluency of argument in problem solving process, advanced question skills, and knowledge of coastal area potencies and problems.

Influence of Environment and Gender on Career Choice among Secondary School Students in Kaura Local Government Area, Kaduna State, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Abayomi Ambali Alaka ◽  
Salamatu Ishaku ◽  
Sadiq Aderibigbe Idowu
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Career Choice ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
School Students ◽  
And Gender

The study examined the influence of environment and gender on career choice among secondary school students in Kaura Local Government of Kaduna State. A descriptive research design was used and 18 secondary schools were clustered into three chiefdoms to draw a sample of 6 secondary schools using purposive sampling technique. Also, a sample of 422 students from a population of 3558 students from the three Chiefdoms was drawn using cluster sampling technique. The study developed and used a questionnaire tagged 'Environment, Gender and Career Choice Questionnaire (EGCCQ)' with correlation coefficient of 0.78. The students' career choice was based on the adoption of Career Interest Survey (CIS) and Vocational Interest Inventory (VII) developed by Bakare (1977). Descriptive statistics of simple percentage was used for the research question generated, while inferential statistics of multiple regression analysis was employed to analyse the null hypotheses developed for the study and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that students had preferences for career choice based on gender and environment. There was a significant composite influence of environment and gender on career choice among secondary school students in Kaura Local Government of Kaduna State, with the influence of environment being relatively than that of gender. It is therefore recommended among others that students should be well counselled in the choice of career process by professional counsellors and they should take into consideration the immediate environment of the students, their gender, interest, ability, skills and personality.

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