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Ping He; Fangyun Guo; Genevive Anulika Abazie – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
This study investigates the role of school principals' instructional leadership as a predictor of teachers' professional development. The research sample comprised 304 secondary school teachers and 19 principals in Awka South, Anambra State, Nigeria. The study adopts Hallinger and Murphy's (1985) Instructional Leadership Model. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Styles, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Faculty Development
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Ogbodoakum, Nnamdi; Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd; Abiddin, Norhasni Zainal – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2022
Information and communication technology have revolutionised many aspects of human interactions. One area which has received profound transformation is education and learning. Although technology-enhanced learning has widened access, and improved performance and quality; little has been achieved in many developing countries. The study is aimed at…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Self Efficacy, Predictor Variables, Learning Management Systems
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Chaka, John G.; Govender, Irene – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2020
This research set out to determine the use of a social networking platform, Facebook, as a medium for learning and teaching. Using a combination of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model, Information Systems (IS) success model and the educational use of Facebook theory, a conceptual framework was developed for…
Descriptors: Social Media, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
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Shittu, Ahmed Tajudeen; Kareem, Bamidele Wahab; Obielodan, Omotayo Olabo; Fakomogbon, Michael Ayodele – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2017
This study examined predictors of pre-service science teachers' behavioral intention toward e-resources use for teaching in Nigeria. The study used cross-sectional survey research method and a questionnaire with a set of items that measure technology preparedness, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and behavioral intention to gather the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Student Behavior, Intention
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Preece, Abdul Shakhour Duncan – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study investigates the effectiveness of community of inquiry method in preparing students to develop listening and speaking skills in a sample of junior secondary school students in Borno state, Nigeria. A sample of 100 students in standard classes was drawn in one secondary school in Maiduguri metropolis through stratified random sampling…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Language Acquisition, Inquiry, Communities of Practice
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Okoza, Jolly; Aluede, Oyaziwo; Owens-Sogolo, Osasere – Research in Education, 2013
This study examined metacognitive awareness of learning strategies among Secondary School Students in Edo State, Nigeria. The study was an exploratory one, which utilized descriptive statistics. A total number of 1200 students drawn through multistage proportionate random sampling technique participated in the study. The study found that secondary…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Secondary School Students, Cohort Analysis
Adeyemi, Abisola Moradeyo; Adeyemi, Seminu Babatunde – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2014
The enhancement of the academic achievement of the Nigerian students has continued to engage the attention of educational practitioners and policy makers. This paper investigated institutional factors as predictors of students' academic performance in Colleges of Education in South-Western Nigeria. The study employed the ex post facto design using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Predictor Variables
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Awofala, Adeneye O. A. – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2014
This study investigated the effect of a personalised print-based instruction versus a non-personalised print-based instruction on the attitudes toward mathematics word problems of 350 senior secondary school year one Nigerian students within the blueprint of a quantitative research of pre-treatment-intervention-post-treatment non-equivalent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students
Awofala, Adeneye O. A. – Online Submission, 2014
This study investigated the effect of a personalised print-based instruction versus a non-personalised print-based instruction on the attitudes toward mathematics word problems of 350 senior secondary school year one Nigerian students within the blueprint of a quantitative research of pre-treatment-intervention-post-treatment non-equivalent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students
Tella, Adeyinka; Tella, Adedeji; Adeniyi, Sam Olufemi – New Horizons in Education, 2011
Background: Academic achievement is interestingly an important issue; a fundamental premium upon which all teaching-learning activities are measured using some criteria of excellence e.g. good academic performance, poor academic performance and academic failure. Aims: This study examines locus of control, interest in schooling and self-efficacy as…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Salman, M. F.; Yahaya, L. A.; Yusuf, A.; Ahmed, M. A.; Ayinla, J. O. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2012
This study sought for the effect of the use of behavioural objectives on Senior Secondary students' academic performance in Mathematics in Omu-Aran, Kwara South Senatorial District Area of Kwara State, Nigeria. The target population for the study comprised Senior Secondary Two (SS II) students in Omu-Aran town. Purposive sampling technique was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students, Correlation
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Oloruntegbe, K. O.; Omoniyi, A. O.; Omoniyi, M. B. I.; Ojelade, I. A. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
The study investigated the nature of conflicts that are generated in the science classroom. Twenty video-recorded lessons taught by 10 randomly selected pre-service science teachers in teaching practice in a few Nigerian secondary schools were analyzed. Beside the expected goal attainment of the lessons a number of negative conflicts were…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education