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The major purpose of this study was to determine the strategies for improving Library and Information studies in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Four research questions were answered and four null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population for the study consisted of 282 made up of Library and Information Science Students. The researchers use all the sample population because of the manageable size. Descriptive survey design was used to generate data for the study. Structured questionnaire was used to elicit information for the study. The questionnaire was pilot tested with a sample of 30 students from Nasarawa State Polytechnic Nasarawa State. Cronbach Alpha reliability test was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument and this yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.77. The data were analyzed using mean statistic for the research questions and ANOVA was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Based on the findings...

The lack of comprehensive data on computer, information and communication technology (ICT), and communication skills among Thai Rajabhat University students poses a challenge in developing effective educational strategies that enhance student employability and future readiness. To address this gap, this study aimed to assess these skills and analyze the skill profiles of students from Rajabhat Universities across Thailand. A total of 1,165 students were selected through multi-stage sampling, and their skills were measured using a researcher-developed 5-point Likert scale questionnaire. The results showed high levels of self-reported skills, with communication skills being the highest (mean=3.84, SD=0.669), followed by ICT (mean=3.81, SD=0.676) and computer skills (mean=3.65, SD=0.628). Latent profile analysis (LPA) identified four potential models with 2, 3, 4, and 5 groups, with the four-group model offering the best fit (likelihood=-1887.336, Akaike information criterion (AIC)=3810.673, Bayesian information criterion (BIC)=3901.762, Akaike’s Bayesian information criterion (ABIC)=3844.587, entropy=0.940). These findings provided critical insights for curriculum development and tailored interventions, supporting universities in meeting diverse student needs and improving educational outcomes.

Time is a precious and so important thing as well as the blessing of the Creator in the world. It is the time which makes, changes, creates, decorates, maintains, develops, strengthens, and successes the present and secures the future of the people and the nations. Time considers a great cure and care for any unethical, unsocial and invaluable matter and event. Time settles each and every hurdle and difficulty of any system and nation with its pace, speed and direction. If time is managed properly according to needs and the requirements of the matters and phenomenon of any nation then no one can stop any nation to be a developed and successful. This research paper aims to explore and investigate the importance and see the impact of Time Management in the professional life of teachers and the performance of the students of Primary schools in the districts of Hyderabad. In these connections 30 primary teachers were constituted as the sample of the study. Interviews were conducted on the Primary school Teachers of Government / Public and Private School Teachers in order to collect the data about Time Management of teachers and the Performance of the students. A qualitative research design was used to collect data from the sample.

Aim: This study aims to identify university students' perceived barriers to campus recreation activities and explore how virtual reality (VR) applications can facilitate overcoming these obstacles. Method: A mixed-method approach was used. First, the Leisure Constraints Scale was administered to 154 students. Then, 12 students with the highest perceived barriers participated in a VR session. They engaged in games or 360° videos, preferably. After the session, a focus group discussion was conducted. Structured interview questions were derived deductively from the sub-dimensions of the Leisure Constraints Scale, and the data were analyzed thematically. Results: In the quantitative part of the study, a significant difference was found based on the grade variable (p<0.05). In the qualitative part, 50 codes were identified under three themes: intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural constraints/negotiations. Participants viewed VR as an alternative to activities inaccessible in real life. While most evaluated this positively, one participant highlighted the potential for dissatisfaction due to its inability to replicate real-life experiences. VR was highlighted as a preferable option over field-based activities due to its ability to address financial, facility, and time constraints, and its perceived advantage in time management. Conclusion: The revealed key insights: (i)VR can serve as an alternative to inaccessible activities in daily life, (ii)campus recreation activities are limited and poorly advertised; VR provides broader access, (iii)the diversity and cost-free nature of VR is attractive, and (iv)VR may lack the interpersonal interactions inherent in face-to-face activities.

This study examined the benefits and challenges of school lunch program in Iwo local government of Osun State. It was a survey. The population consisted of all teachers in the 60 public primary school of the local government which is 623. A sample of 244 respondents was drawn from the schools using simple random technique. Questionnaire was used for data collection. Data were analyzed using mean. Findings revealed, among others that, the school lunch program has helped to increase daily attendance of the pupils in the schools and eliminate classroom hunger among the pupils. Recommendations were made for the government to create general level of awareness on cleanliness among the people handling the foods by employing private agencies to follow certain hygiene norms for food preparation and service and to also involve some accredited representatives of the parent/teachers' association in whatever that will be given for the project:

In the midst of the exponential growth in linguistic diversity in general education environments, particularly in the US, the increasingly dynamic instructional contexts necessitate rapidly responsive strategic pedagogical practices and methods. Differentiated Instruction (DI) has emerged as a promising evidence-based and pedagogically relevant strategic approach for effectively addressing diverse multidimensional learning needs of kindergarten level English Language Learners (ELLs) throughout to fifth grade. A lack of formally established English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) training programs and professional development among educators present a challenge in effectively designing and implementing DI strategies and practices for learners in linguistically diverse educational settings. Guided by constructivism and transformative learning theories, this qualitative case study research approach explored the diverse perceptions of education teachers on implementation of custom-designed DI adapted for ELLs without undergoing robust well-structured credentialed training programs in ESOL within the contexts of suburban Georgia. The study aimed to fill a gap in understanding the perceived needs of general education teachers in implementing DI for ELLs to inform the development of professional development (PD) and training. A qualitative case study approach was used, with criterion and snowball sampling to select 20 participants. An open-ended questionnaire was sent digitally via Microsoft Forms, with 7 participating in a virtual focus group. Using Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis and MAXQDA 24.8, responses were analyzed to identify five recurring themes. Results indicated that participants believed DI is effective, emphasizing the need for targeted PD, adequate resources, and ongoing communication and collaboration.

Team teaching also called collaborative teaching or co-teaching strategy is a form of organization in which individual teachers decide to pool resources, interest and expertise in order to device and implement a scheme of work suitable to the needs for their students and the facilities of their school. This paper examined conceptual definitions of team teaching, characteristics, principles, and procedures of team teaching as an instructional strategy. The paper concludes with recommendations such as educational administrators/heads, especially in Nigerian higher institutions were team-teaching strategy is predominantly used, should organize on-the-job training, workshops, seminars symposia and conferences for teachers/lecturers to update their knowledge on the application method of team teaching.

Mobile devices are increasingly included for knowledge management (KM) in academic contexts. The purpose of this study was to examine how the integration of mobile technologies affects KM among students and educators in higher education settings in Saudi Arabia. Interviews with educators and students at two universities explored the factors determining the use of mobile technologies for learning. Content analysis of the participants’ responses found that the students and educators perceived four key factors determining mobile technology use: the capacity of mobile technologies to enhance learning processes, teaching practices, and student-student and student-educator communicative interactions, and hardware and infrastructure components. The main conclusion was that Saudi universities must utilise mobile technologies to identify, encapsulate, transform, and disseminate usable knowledge effectively.

The main thrust of this study is to find out the teachers" attitude generally toward instruction television (ITV), also to find out the impact of length of work experience on its use. This survey study was carried out in selected secondary in Ekeremor LGA of Bayelsa State. The mannwhitney U test was used in the analysis because it is based on ordinal scale intervals. On the general attitude of teachers towards the use of instructional television, the smaller U ( ) is higher than the critical U is (2.3) the null hypothesis was rejected and retained the alternate hypothesis of there is no significant difference in attitude and secondary school teacher towards the use of (ITV). Also, the use of ITV based and the length of teaching experience, the computed U value (32) and the smaller U is (3.0), the null hypothesis was rejected and retained the alternate hypothesis of there is no significant difference in attitude among secondary teachers with different length of teaching experience towards the use of instruction television in Ekeremor L.G.A of Bayelsa State Nigeria. The study portrayed that they have a favorable disposition towards the use of ITV and it was recommended that some television stations should broadcast well tutored and design suitable lesson to learners.

This study assessed the role of Environmental Education as a tool for the creation of awareness on adaptation to climate change in Taraba State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was used for the study and the population for the study was 961 out of which 128 students were sampled for the study. Data was collected using questionnaire tagged "Environmental Education, Conservation and Climate-Change Questionnaire (EECCQ)" with a reliability index of 0.73. The three Research questions that guided the study were answered using mean and standard deviations. The findings of this study revealed among others that the undergraduate students have good level of awareness on climate change education, there is a slight mean difference on the level of exposure on Environmental Education and Conservation between male undergraduate students and their female counterparts. It was concluded that awareness, understanding of climate change as well as participation in Environmental Education and conservation campaigns are indispensable strategies to adopt in mitigating the impact of climate change with its attendant consequences. Recommendations were made amongst which include the introduction of Climate Change studies in university programmes.

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Background: Explosive and fast body movements, sprints, jumps and quick changes of direction, which are characteristic of the football training, place considerable strain on the hamstring muscles. Due to the high occurrence of hamstring injuries, new preventive strategies are required that focus on highvelocity training. The purpose was to assess the effectiveness of high-velocity elastic-band training in reducing the occurrence of hamstring injuries in football players. Methods: Male football players from 15 teams (n = 319) playing in national competitions participated in this study. The players were involved in a 5-week exercise period in either the intervention group (INT) or the control group (CON), with a follow-up period of ~4 months where hamstring injuries and exposure time were recorded. The INT group had two to three sessions per week of elastic-band training with low-load, high-velocity leg curls while lying prone; the CON group performed self-paced football-specific drills. The incidence rate of hamstring injuries was 6.5% in the INT group (8 out of 123 players) and 9.2% in the CON group (18 out of 196 players). Although the INT group showed almost 1/3 reduction in hamstring injury incidence compared to the CON group, the difference was not statistically significant (p > 0.05). Moreover, no differences (p > 0.05, odds ratio [OR] = trivial-to-small) in distribution between the groups were found in hamstring injury characteristics (leg dominance and mechanism) except for the distribution of injuries that occurred during matches or training (p = 0.036; OR = 6.14, moderate). The program of high-velocity elastic-band training did not prove to be effective in preventing hamstring muscle injuries in football players despite displaying some positive indications that could be considering when creating injury prevention programs.

This article aims to examine the levels of education for sustainable development (ESD) knowledge among studentsin secondary schools according to zones in Malaysia by using GIS mapping. The five main zones of the study werethe north zone, the south zone, the east coast zone, the central zone, and the East Malaysia zone. This quantitativeform of study used a questionnaire as research instrument. Two types of sampling techniques were applied, namelystratified sampling for school selection and simple random sampling for choosing respondents from the selectedschools. The three ESD knowledge variables measured in this study were knowledge of ESD content, knowledge ofenvironmental education and knowledge of health. The study results showed that in general the levels of sustainabledevelopment education knowledge of secondary school students in all zones were high for ESD content knowledgewhile moderate for environmental education knowledge and health knowledge. Meanwhile, the GIS map clearl...

Many studies have suggested that personal practical knowledge is essential for professional development. Recently,there has been growing recognition of the importance of teacher educators’ personal practical knowledge of‘language’ for student learning development. However, the need for teacher educators to first understand their ownlanguage-oriented development in content-based classroom interaction has not received as much emphasis. Thecurrent intervention study investigates how eleven experienced teacher educators understand their language-orienteddevelopment through the control of task difficulty, small-group instruction and directed response questioning. Datawere examined by conducting content and constant comparison analyses. The results showed that the interventionaffected the educators’ language-oriented development, which in turn affected their awareness and decisions made toimprove their methods of initiation and response during classroom interaction. The results call for m...

This paper describes teacher educators' understanding of language for classroom communication in higher education. We argue that teacher educators who are aware of their personal practical knowledge of language have a better understanding of their students' language use and provide better support for knowledge construction. Personal practical knowledge originates from teachers' professional practice and is based on their past experience, current awareness and future expectation. Data from focus group interviews with teacher educators (N = 35) were used for content analysis. Findings demonstrate an emerging conceptualization resulting in two language modalities of personal practical knowledge, specified as: 'language-sensitive and interpersonally oriented' and 'language-focused and pedagogically oriented. ' The insights contribute to building a professional practical knowledge base of language and communication-oriented teaching.

Written corrective feedback has been subject to increasing attention in recent years, in part because of the conceptual controversy surrounding it and in part because of its ubiquitous practice. This study takes a meta-analytic approach to synthesizing extant empirical research, including 21 primary studies. Guiding the analysis are two questions: Does written corrective feedback help to improve the grammatical accuracy of second language writing? What factors might mitigate its efficacy? Results show that written corrective feedback can lead to greater grammatical accuracy in second language writing, yet its efficacy is mediated by a host of variables, including learners' proficiency, the setting, and the genre of the writing task.

Written corrective feedback has been subject to increasing attention in recent years, in part because of the conceptual controversy surrounding it and in part because of its ubiquitous practice. This study takes a meta‐analytic approach to synthesizing extant empirical research, including 21 primary studies. Guiding the analysis are two questions: Does written corrective feedback help to improve the grammatical accuracy of second language writing? What factors might mitigate its efficacy? Results show that written corrective feedback can lead to greater grammatical accuracy in second language writing, yet its efficacy is mediated by a host of variables, including learners&#39; proficiency, the setting, and the genre of the writing task.

The acceptance of evolution by Greek students aged 17 has never been actually measured neither via a poll survey nor with the application of any of the existing psychometric tools that have been developed for this purpose. In this research, GAENE 2.1 was chosen because it is a one-dimensional tool that can only measure the acceptance of evolution and does not contain items related to the understanding of evolution and the respondent’s religious beliefs. The assessment of the appropriateness of the tool for our sample was tested with the criteria of Rasch model. Despite the fact that some of GAENE 2.1 items may not show the expected statistical fit and probably overestimates the levels of acceptance of evolution, the tool is appropriated to measure with efficiently and effectively way the acceptance of evolution in the specific sample.

The paramedical and nursing staffs in hospitals work under stressful conditions, resulting in higher turnover intentions. The present study aims to understand the structure of psychological capital in the context of healthcare professionals and also analyze the impact of PsyCap on turnover intentions. The structured questionnaire was administered to 222 paramedical and nursing staff working in public hospital in north India. The findings of this research reflect that psychological capital has a significant negative relationship with turnover intentions. Further our study also confirms the four factor structure of psychological capital having dimensions as self efficacy, hope, optimism and resilience.

The important role of teachers in any part in the world is to teach students how to learn everything around them on their own. The students must learn, how to learn and know how they have learned, and learn how to direct their learning process in the future. This concept known as metacognition, it means "thinking about one"s own thinking". Metacognition relates to language learning and teaching, it plays a central role in successful learning. The purpose of this research is to identify metacognition in the form of language learning strategies. The study discusses useful strategies and learning styles used by learners of English Language as a second language, In order to achieve the aims of this study and to assess its hypotheses the researcher collected sample of writings written by undergraduate and postgraduate level students in the department of English Language/Al-Iraqia university talking about how they learned different skills of learning English specially listening and speaking skills in English language learning classrooms, which help the student, become self-directed learners. The purpose of collecting these samples is to show how much these students know about language learning strategies, and how can they apply these strategies during their learning the English language.

Pedagogy has always been open to other disciplines that reflect about the educational process (philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, technology, etc.). Its interdisciplinary openness puts education, as the subject of pedagogy within a broader context of the community, enabling the knowledge of other disciplines to contribute to a better understanding of the fundamental pedagogical notion of education. The purpose of pedagogy as a science serves humans, strives towards humans, must be for humans, and this is its ultimate goal. Humans are essentially dependent on education, which is also considered as a category of humans' being, because through education an entire world develops in humans. Anthropological assumptions of humans as "deficient beings" see the solution in education, but they also indicate a wealth of shortcomings, because they provide an opportunity for enrichment and formation of culture, living and the self. In that context, this paper illustrates the determination of pedagogy through an anthropological conception of humans and the phenomenon of education. It presents a review of anthropological ideas about education, by providing an analysis of relevant literature dealing with the anthropological notion of humans, which provides fruitful conditions for a pedagogical reconsideration of education.

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When one discusses the dissemination of the educational aims and tasks on a theoretical, as well as a methodological, level, it is important to highlight that pedagogy, being the science of education that it is, finds solutions in differing directions. One is theoretical, and the other is the realization of the sum of the demands of working in the field of education. More often than not, educational aims come from the basic demands of society. They can also be taken from documents of state, laws, resolutions etc. Sometimes, they can be set too wide and can be too general. This is thought to be the reason of insufficient clarity of the educational aim when we discuss making the educational aim more specific and realizing it in the educational process itself. This is where we find the need to further develop the educational aim and make it more specific in order to make it possible to realize for a practical educational purpose and to realize the educational goals of the person we are...

This study examined virtual simulation and secondary school students' academic performance in biology in Obio/Akpor L.G.A of Rivers state. Two objectives, two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The research design used was quasi-experimental research design. The population of the study is 12,690 students found in the 28 public senior secondary schools distributed in Obio/Akpor L .G. A. The sample size was 100 students. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the public senior secondary schools used for the study. The instrument used was Biology Performance Test (BPT). The test questions were validated by two experts in the department. The reliability index of 0.8 was obtained using Pearson product moment correlation (PPMC). Mean and Standard deviation answered the research questions while ANCOVA tested the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance using SPSS version 24.0. Results showed that students exposed to virtual simulation demonstrated significant improvement in their biology grades compared to the control group, taught with discussion methods. The study recommends the integration of virtual simulations in Biology curricula to improve student outcomes and engagement in Biology. The study highlights the potential of virtual simulation in enhancing students' understanding and retention of complex biological concepts.

A special education programme is required for kids who have intellectual disabilities. To help these kids learn how to cooperate while engaging in activities, various activities like music, dance, yoga arts and crafts etc. may be offered. They need to teach practical skills and daily tasks rather than academic knowledge. The misconception is that institutional training is the only way to teach children with intellectual disabilities. To learn about autonomous living, they require attention and inclusion. The Govt also offers additional services and educational opportunities for children with intellectual disabilities. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that assists educators in minimizing obstacles and enhancing learning opportunities for every student. It is an instructional approach designed to cater to the diverse needs and capabilities of all learners, eliminating unnecessary challenges in the learning journey. Several pieces of literature have been published, illustrating the efficacy of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in enhancing learning across various subjects for children with intellectual disabilities. Evidence suggests that UDL aids in accessing the general education curriculum, resulting in improved learning outcomes and growth in essential skills such as reading, writing, comprehension, decision-making, life skills, and social skills. These advancements are pivotal in enabling students to lead dignified and standard lives. Researchers in the field recommend further investigation to solidify the evidence supporting the assertions made in this paper.

This study aimed to examine the Adversity Quotient management of Filipino subject teachers in classroom teaching in Bongao. The respondents were 40 elementary teachers handling the Filipino subject. The data were collected using the researcher-made questionnaire adopted and modified from Stolz (2021), consisting of 40 questions per dimension. The results, analyzed using the weighted mean and Mann-Whitney U Test, revealed that teachers are less anxious in the control, ownership, endurance, and reach dimensions. Moreover, there is a significant relationship between ownership and endurance dimensions, while no significant relationship was observed among others. In conclusion, the researchers concluded that a lower level of anxiety among teachers is closely associated with a higher Adversity Quotient (AQ). When teachers experience less anxiety, they tend to be better equipped to face challenges and effectively manage the demands of their profession. This suggests that teachers who can regulate their anxiety are more likely to perceive situations as manageable and within their control, thereby positively influencing their AQ scores.

Guided by the analytical framework in the current literature, whereby ten nature of science (NOS) aspects were targeted, this study aims at assessing the extent to which the three physics textbooks for Cycle 4 of Fundamental Schools in Burundi represent the NOS aspects. The quantitative embedded research design which combines the qualitative and quantitative to both the representations of text and images were applied to collect and analyses data. Three physics textbooks used in this study as textbooks I, II and III (grade 7 textbook, grade 8 textbook and grade 9 textbook) were purposively selected. 65 physics lessons were analyzed in three steps including exploring representations of NOS aspects, representations of NOS teaching approaches and accuracy and completeness of NOS aspects. Data were collected using a guide document analysis and a rubric of NOS scoring and were analysed descriptively. The findings found a considerable deficit of NOS aspects in the physics textbooks. The fi...

This study evaluated the implementation of the Federal Government Home Grown School Feeding Programme in primary schools in Nigeria with focus on Kano State. The study was guided by three research questions. The ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study. Secondary data were used in the study. The descriptive statistics including frequency counts, mean, percentage, and standard deviation were used for analysis of data. It was revealed that the Federal Government Home School Feeding Programme (HGSFP) served positive functions to enrolment, attendance, and completion as well as bridged gender inequality among primary school pupils in Kano State. It was recommended that both Kano State and Federal Government should be more committed to the HGSFP, and parents should explore the benefits of the programme by enrolling their wards and complement government's effort through provision of other essential education resources for their children.

This study investigated the effect of metacognitively stimulated 7E learning cycle on tenth grade students' epistemological understandings in physics. The participants of the study included 107 (49 Female, 58 Male) tenth grade students at two public high schools in Ankara. A quasi-experimental with matching-only pretest-posttest control group design was employed. Two intact classes of each school were randomly assigned to the experimental and control group. The experimental group was instructed based on the metacognitive 7E learning cycle while the control group was taught with the teacher-centered instruction. The Turkish Physics 1. This study is produced from the first author's dissertation and a part of it was presented at World Conference on Physics Education (2012, Istanbul).

This study evaluated the implementation of the Federal Government Home Grown School Feeding Programme in primary schools in Nigeria with focus on Kano State. The study was guided by three research questions. The ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study. Secondary data were used in the study. The descriptive statistics including frequency counts, mean, percentage, and standard deviation were used for analysis of data. It was revealed that the Federal Government Home School Feeding Programme (HGSFP) served positive functions to enrolment, attendance, and completion as well as bridged gender inequality among primary school pupils in Kano State. It was recommended that both Kano State and Federal Government should be more committed to the HGSFP, and parents should explore the benefits of the programme by enrolling their wards and complement government's effort through provision of other essential education resources for their children.

This paper appraised the concept of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and the current reports on the teaching and learning of English language in Nigeria. It highlighted the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theory formulated by Krashen in 1981. The theory famously known as input hypothesis was purposively chosen to analyze its possible application in English language teaching methodology, students learning, and English language teaching and learning resources development in Nigeria. The five principles of Krashen's hypothesis: acquisitionlearning, the natural order, the monitor, the input, and affective filter were outlined. The paper strongly argued that for effective English language performance, English language instruction must be informed and supported by Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theories in order to create and provide enabling environment that offer students comprehensive English language input and encourage them to provide meaningful language output.

The objectives of this research were: 1) to study the current situation of digital management in universities in Guangxi, 2) to develop the purpose model for improving digital management in universities in Guangxi, 3) to evaluate the suitability and feasibility of the purpose model for improving digital management in universities in Guangxi. The sample group of this research was 148 administrators in 20 public undergraduate universities in Guangxi. They were selected by systematic random sampling and sample random sampling. The interview group was led by administrators from 12 universities, totaling 12 people. The experts for evaluating the suitability and feasibility of the purpose model for improving digital management consisted of high-level administrators from 7 universities, totaling 7 people. The research instruments were document analysis, questionnaire, structured interview, and evaluation form. The statistics to analyze the data were percentage, average value, and standard deviation. The results found that the current situation of digital management in universities in Guangxi in five aspects was at a high level. Considering the results of this research aspects ranged from the highest to lowest level were as follows: the highest level was the digital campus security management system, followed by the digital student management system, and the digital scientific research management system was the lowest level. The purpose model for improving digital management in universities in Guangxi has five aspects, which contain 40 measures. There are 7 measures to enhance the digital management ability of Guangxi University managers, 10 measures to promote the digital teaching management system in Universities in Guangxi, 8 measures to promote the digital scientific research management system in Universities in Guangxi, 9 measures to promote the digital student management system in Universities in Guangxi, 6 measures to promote the digital campus security management system in Universities in Guangxi. The results of the evaluation of the suitability and feasibility of the purpose model for improving digital management in universities in Guangxi were at the highest level.

The objectives of this research were 1) to study the current situation of financial aid education in universities in Guangxi, 2) to propose the guidelines for the development of financial aid education in universities in Guangxi, and 3) to evaluate the adaptability and feasibility of the guidelines for the development of financial aid education in universities in Guangxi. The sample group of this research was 274 financial aid administrators in 26 public undergraduate universities in Guangxi. They were selected by systematic random sampling and sample random sampling. The interview group was the center's leader for student financial aid from 11 universities, totaling 11 people. The experts for evaluating the adaptability and feasibility of guidelines for developing financial aid education consisted of high-level administrators from 7 universities, totaling seven people. The research instruments were document analysis, questionnaire, structured interview, and evaluation form. The data analysis statistics were percentage, average value, and standard deviation. The results found that the current situation of financial aid education in six aspects was high. Considering the results of this research, aspects ranging from the highest to lowest level were as follows: the highest level was the bursary system, followed by the student loan system, and the work-study system was the lowest level. The guidelines for developing financial aid education were divided into seven aspects, including 44 measures. The results of evaluating the adaptability and feasibility of guidelines for developing financial aid education were at the highest level.

This paper is based on a study that was carried out among university students with the aim of finding out how they got placement for industrial attachment (IA) which is commonly referred to as Field Attachment (FA). Students are normally prepared adequately through interactive sessions with the members of staff of a given department. It is assumed that these sessions equip the students with the basic knowledge needed while they are on attachment. Over the years, it has emerged that many students take longer to find placement than others. A number of students take more than a month before they get placed. In 2012, we carried out a questionnaire survey after trainees returned to the university from a two month industrial attachment. The questionnaire is organized into 15 thematic areas most of which had sub-categories. Two (2) themes sought demographic information and details about the firms where students were placed, 4 thematic items were open ended and 9 were Likert Scale type rang...

The purpose of this study is to explore the attitudes of faculty members at higher education toward inclusion for students with high incidence disabilities in higher education. For the aim of this study, a sample of 247 higher education faculty members were therefore collected. Multiple linear regression was conducted for data analysis. Results have shown that university-type accommodation services, training, academic rank, and university region are statistically significant predictors of higher education faculty members’ attitudes toward the inclusion for students with high incidence disabilities in higher education. Some recommendations are hence provided to help improve the inclusion of students with high incidence disabilities in higher education in Saudi Arabia.

The Educational Robotic Application (ERA) Principles provides a framework for evaluating Educational Robots and their activities. This paper presents the rationale behind the proposed e-Robot Project, an online community based research resource aimed at gathering data on the use of educational robotics. Collating the data against ERA is an iterative process that will simultaneously verify and improve ERA, which in turn will inform the design and application of educational robotics. e-Robot involves all aspects of the research process from research design to meta-analysis. The project can run indefinitely and will encourage participation from student teachers, teachers, researchers, developers, administrators, politicians and other interested parties.

This research analyzes vocabulary-related issues and oral communication problems of EFL learners at Universitas Islam Negeri Walisongo Walisongo Semarang. Students gave their feedback through questionnaires which measured their perceptions of self-rated vocabulary knowledge and their perceived communication barriers, alongside attention to vocabulary importance for oral communication. Using a descriptive quantitative approach, data was obtained from a sample of 100 intermediate speaking course students. The data generated showed that the participants experienced the lack of vocabulary as the most salient barrier to effective oral communication. This was corroborated by the fact that the majority of participants had limited vocabulary and inability to articulate complex ideas fluently and flexibly in speech. Most respondents also value vocabulary instruction and expressed strong motivation to improve their articulate skills. Considering these results proved the working hypotheses regarding vocabulary instruction emphasize that sophisticated instruction is needed in order to give value for vocabulary. This study empirically confirms the claim on the lack of vocabulary and emphasizes the essential need of contextualized vocabulary instruction designed within the EFL curriculum which is specifically intended to develop learners' communicative competence. The findings suggest that both explicit and contextualized vocabulary acquiring strategies are crucial in developing oral proficiency in EFL settings.

A diagnostic test in economics to aid the teachers determine student's specific weak content areas was developed and validated. Five research questions guided the study. Preliminary validation was done by two experienced teachers in the content area of secondary economics and two experts in test construction. The pilot testing was conducted for grammatical checking and compatibility bench marking while the test was try-out tested for item analysis. The overall number of test items was 83. The test difficulty indices ranged from 0.24 to 0.79 and discrimination indices were within 0.22 to 0.65. The content validity index for the 83 items was 0.76 and the Kappa statistic reliability value of the test was 0.83. The test was found to be of good quality, valid and highly reliable. The test is therefore recommended for identifying specific mastered and least learned content areas in economics in Nigeria, South Africa and other countries with emerging economies.

University is a place where skilled labour is produced for societal and global consumption. This is premised on the fact that education provided at this level enhances human capital development which widens employment opportunities. However, there seems to be disparity over the skills required and those possessed by graduates from Nigerian universities. As a result, many university graduates are either underemployed or unemployed. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Using stratified and simple random sampling techniques, a total of 300 employers of labour drawn from the manufacturing, banking and finance, education, and telecommunication industries in Lagos State constituted the sample frame. A Skill Assessment Questionnaire (SKAQ) was designed to elicit information from the participants. The results obtained showed that skills required of university graduates as perceived by employers were analytic and problem solving (98%), decision -making (98.3%), risk management (96.7%), leadership (98%), information and communication (97.7%), team-work (99%), official communication (97.7), and English proficiency and literacy skills (97%) while skills possessed by university graduates were English proficiency and literacy (58%) and information and communication skills (53%). These results showed disparity in both the employers required skills and those possessed by the university graduates. The study, therefore, recommends that Nigerian university curriculum should be revised to reflect courses that will teach the required skill by employers.

Employee job satisfaction has been established to be one of the important factors that work towards addressing the subject matter of productivity in organizations. Healthcare professionals deserve some level of basic psychological need satisfaction in the area of job autonomy. Reasons that lead to employees achieving job autonomy and Job satisfaction have been researched by industrial and organizational psychologist but very few of such studies have directed their attention towards the role psychological capital can play. And so, this study sought to find out how much of an impact positive psychology can make on the job autonomy of healthcare employees leading to the fulfilment of job satisfaction. Data was collected from 385 healthcare professionals from the public sector. Structural equation model was performed to analyze the relationship that exists between the constructs of psychological capital and job autonomy leading to job satisfaction on the part of the employees. Results showed both a direct and indirect positive relationship between hope and job satisfaction and indirect through job autonomy. Apart from self-efficacy that had a very low positive relationship, optimism largely influenced job autonomy of the healthcare professionals. Results also showed that psychological capital positively related to job autonomy while job autonomy minimally influenced job satisfaction.

Employee job satisfaction has been established to be one of the important factors that work towards addressing the subject matter of productivity in organizations. Healthcare professionals deserve some level of basic psychological need satisfaction in the area of job autonomy. Reasons that lead to employees achieving job autonomy and Job satisfaction have been researched by industrial and organizational psychologist but very few of such studies have directed their attention towards the role psychological capital can play. And so, this study sought to find out how much of an impact positive psychology can make on the job autonomy of healthcare employees leading to the fulfilment of job satisfaction. Data was collected from 385 healthcare professionals from the public sector. Structural equation model was performed to analyze the relationship that exist between the constructs of psychological capital and job autonomy leading to job satisfaction on the part of the employees. Results sh...

The mass failure recorded in Nigeria's 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), along with consistent challenges in WAEC and NECO, has intensified national concern over whether traditional examinations effectively measure students' knowledge and readiness. This research explores the shortcomings of the current exam-centric approach, examines the implications of recent exam results, and offers proactive recommendations for WAEC, NECO, and JAMB to embrace broader, more inclusive, and effective methods of student assessment.

The present study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence, academic achievement and school climate among primary school students. The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of social and emotional learning programs on the emotional intelligence and the academic achievement of 143 students in the 5th and 6th grade of primary school, who attended relevant programs compared with the corresponding number of students (163) in the same grades, who did not attend such educational programs. Students completed the TEIQue-CSF and a questionnaire with demographic data; in addition, the scores they received in the last quarter (April-June) of the academic year 2011-2012 were taken into account. Combined with the above, a questionnaire was constructed based on the "Checklist for the assessment of the quality of classroom and school climate", in order to investigate the views of the respective teachers on the impact of school climate on the emotional competence of students. The comparative results of the present study showed that there is a positive relationship among the variances. The findings must be taken into account from the Ministry of Education in Greece when designing the curricula in order to create caring, responsible, emotionally and psychosocially balanced students.

This study examined the perceived influence of street hawking on hawkers' development in Calabar Municipality, Cross River State, Calabar, Nigeria. The purpose of the study was to ascertain the influence of street hawking on antisocial behavioural of hawking children as well as on girl-child sexual abuse in Calabar Municipality of Cross River State. Thus, two objectives and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. This study adopted Social Provision Theory by Jane Addams (1949) as its theoretical framework. The research design adopted for this study was descriptive survey. The sample of the study constituted 400 hawkers drawn across the 10 council wards in Calabar Municipality. Accidental sampling and purposive sampling techniques were used for the study. The instrument used for data collection was closed-ended interview questions. In some cases where the hawkers were found in group, focused group interview was adopted but where only one hawker was seen, the hawker was interviewed personally. In analyzing the data obtained from the respondents t-test was used test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The finding indicated that there is significant influence of street hawking on antisocial behaviour of children in Calabar Municipality. Result also showed that street hawking has significant influence on girl child sexual abuse in Calabar Municipality. Base on the findings of the study, it was recommended that the government of Cross River State should carry out an enlightenment campaign through radio, television, bill post in collaboration with some religious institutions on the negative consequences of street hawking in order to minimize the moral hazards inherent in it. Also, as a way of curbing the menace of street hawking, the government should take urgent steps in making active policies and laws that can help stop the prevalence of street hawking by child care givers. Parents and caregivers should be enlightened on the negative effect of street hawking on children; the girlchild in particular.

In addition to physical struggle, sports are also closely related to moral behaviors and attitudes. The will to succeedand win which plays a central role in sports also brings about various ethical questions. In this respect, the presentstudy aims to analyze coaches’ unethical behaviors in terms of socio-demographic variables. To this aim, a total of173 students comprised of 100 male students and 73 female students were invited to participate in the present study.“Athlete Perception Scale about Coaches’ Unethical Behaviors” developed by Güven and Öncü (2012) and a“personal information form” developed by the researcher was used data collection tools in the present study, and thefindings indicate a normal data distribution. No significant differences were found among scale scores in terms ofgender, sports branch and level of sportsmanship. However, it was also demonstrated that years of athletic experiencehad a significant effect on students’ views on coaches’ unethical behaviors.

Everyday stress, happiness, health status and individual characteristics affect life satisfaction, which, in turn, affectsome other factors. Therefore, high life satisfaction in academics affects their academic performance positively. Theaim of this study is to examine the relationship between sports science academics’ life satisfaction and academicperformance. Study sample consisted of 188 male and 151 female sports science academics working in differentregions. Data were collected using the “Contentment with Life Assessment Scale” (CLAS) developed by Lavallee,Hatch, Michalos & McKinley (2007), and adapted to Turkish language by Akın and Yılmaz (2015), and the“Perceived Academic Performance Scale” developed by Gür (2017). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics,t-test, one-way variance analysis (ANOVA), Tukey multiple comparison test and correlation test. Results show thatmale academics have better academic performance than female academics. Results show no statistically si...

This paper makes a case for a revalorization of all indigenous knowledges in general and African indigenous knowledges in particular. It invites African policy makers and intellectuals to do a little more to bring indigenous knowledges within African educational stream with the view to increasing the potentials of development in Africa. Since there exists a variety of educational theories, including the functionalist, the conflict, the critical, the pragmatic and the afrocentric educational theories, the paper advises that the adoption of the pragmatic and afrocentric educational theories will integrate African indigenous knowledges and current educational systems and thereby promote the development of a holistic African educational system. Consequently, three recommendations have been proffered that will enhance the development of indigenous knowledges and integration of same within the current African educational system.