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

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.

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.

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.

ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN SOUTH WEST NIGERIA

Problems of Education in the 21st Century ◽

10.33225/pec/12.40.07 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 7-16

Author(s):

Ayodeji Olasunkanmi Abari ◽

Mubashir Olayiwola Babatunde Mohammed ◽

Idowu Olufunke Oyetola

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Organizational Identity ◽

Significant Relationship ◽

School Effectiveness ◽

Public And Private ◽

South West ◽

Pertinent Data ◽

The study investigated the relationship between Organizational Identity and Public and Private Senior Secondary School Effectiveness in South West Nigeria. To put the study on course, three hypotheses were formulated. In the same vein, three separate instruments were designed and constructed to collect pertinent data namely the School Identity Questionnaire (SIQ), the School Effectiveness Questionnaire (SEQ) and Performance Records of Students in West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE). While the first instrument measured identity, the other two simultaneously measured effectiveness. There was a total sample of 2,400 students from 120 sample schools at 20 students per 20 schools in each of the six South West States – Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo. Also, a total of 120 principals participated in the study. The Questionnaires were subjected to content and construct validity as well as split-half reliability test. The reliability coefficient for the SIQ was found to be 0.86 and for the SEQ was 0.90. The data were subjected to descriptive and inferential statistical analysis employing the Pearson’s Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient Analysis to test Hypotheses 1and 2, and the Analysis of Variance to test Hypothesis 3. Results of the analysis indicate that there is no significant relationship between organizational identity and school effectiveness in the two categories of schools separately, public and private. However, a significant relationship was found to exist between organizational identity and school effectiveness in private schools only when WASSCE Results were used as a measure of effectiveness. Results also show that a significant difference exists in organizational identity and school effectiveness between public and private senior secondary schools irrespective of the instrument used in measuring effectiveness. Recommendations were then made, in the light of the results, among which are that some degree of autonomy should be given to senior secondary schools for them to grow and develop their identity and effectiveness and, that the identity and effectiveness should regularly be monitored and measured for school improvement purposes. Key words: organizational identity, secondary school, school effectiveness.

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.

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

Advances in Language and Literary Studies ◽

10.7575/aiac.alls.v.10n.2p.143 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 143 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

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.

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.

Availability of Instructional Materials on Students’ Academic Performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Maiduguri Metropolis, Borno State

Asian Journal of Advanced Research and Reports ◽

10.9734/ajarr/2020/v14i230325 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 11-17

Author(s):

Mustapha Ali ◽

Aminu Baba Kura ◽

Sherifat Bello Abdu ◽

Dauda Aliyu

Keyword(s):

Academic Performance ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Simple Random Sampling ◽

Instructional Materials ◽

Correlational Design ◽

Collection Data ◽

Level Of Significance ◽

This study examined the availability of instructional materials and students’ academic performance in senior secondary schools, Maiduguri Metropolis, Borno State, Nigeria. Two (2) objectives and a null hypothesis were used to determine the availability of instructional materials and students’ academic performance in senior secondary schools in Borno state. Survey and Correlational design were used. The total population of the study was 1,236 teachers and 10,349 students out of which 371 teachers and 3,105 students were sampled through simple random sampling. SSCE results for five consecutive years of the 2014-2018 academic sessions were obtained for the study. Checklist and Pro-forma were used for data collection. Data collected were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation coefficient, frequency and percentage at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed a significant relationship between availability of instructional materials and students’ academic performance in senior secondary schools in Maiduguri Metropolis. The study also found that the instructional materials for teaching and learning are available. Based on the findings, it was recommended that government and other stakeholders should continue to support schools in the state with the necessary instructional materials needed for teaching and learning and School administration should emphasize the use of instructional materials to make learning easier.

Effects of Mentoring in the Utilization and Improvisation of Biology Learning Resources on the Performance of Senior Secondary School Students in South West Nigeria

European Scientific Journal ESJ ◽

10.19044/esj.2017.v13n4p270 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 270

Author(s):

Olu-Ajayi Funmilayo Elizabeth

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Control Group ◽

Learning Resources ◽

School Students ◽

Senior Secondary School ◽

South West ◽

Biology Learning ◽

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of mentoring in the utilization and improvisation of Biology learning resources on the performance of senior secondary school students. The main purpose of this study is to mentor the senior secondary students on the utilization of the available Biology learning resources in their schools and the improvisation of unavailable resources, when necessary, for effective learning. The study employed the quasi-experimental design which utilizes non-randomized pretest, post-test, and experimental-control group system. The population of the study was made up of senior secondary school students in South West Nigeria. The sample consisted of 180 Biology students selected from six secondary schools. The sampling technique was multi stage, involving simple random and purposive sampling techniques. The instruments used in the study were Biology learning Resources Questionnaire (BLRQ) and Biology Concept Test (BCT). There was a mentoring package involving a Supplemental Instruction Learning Model. The instrument was validated by experts in science education and test evaluation, and the reliability of the instruments was ascertained using test-retest method. Reliability coefficients of 0.72 and 0.67 were obtained through Pearsons Product Moment correlation statistics. The BCT was administered as both pre-test and posttest, while BLRQ was used to gather information on available learning resources in the secondary schools. In addition, SILM was used for treatment. Data collected were analyzed using Pearsons Product Moment Correlation. It was discovered from the study that mentoring served as an effective tool in encouraging the utilization of available and improvisation of unavailable, but needed, learning resources for Biology teaching and learning in secondary schools. This was discovered to improve students' performance in Biology. Based on the findings of the study, recommendations were made. Among which was that mentoring should be used by Biology teachers as an adjunct to normal classroom teaching, especially in improvisation of learning resources for experiment demonstration during practicals, for effective performance by students.

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.