ASSESSMENT OF INFLUENCE OF ATTITUDE ON PRACTICE TOWARDS HEALTHFUL SCHOOL LIVING AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NORTHERN STATES, NIGERIA.

¹Aliyu, M.,² Biu, A.A., ³Bello, A.U.,and ⁴Suleiman ,M.A.

^1,2,3&4Department Human Kinetics and Health Education,

Ahmadu Bello University. Zaria.

Email: draliyukutigi@yahoo.com

Corresponding Author:  Aliyu Mohammed

ABSTRACT: The study assessed the influence of Attitude on practice towards Healthful School Living among Senior Secondary School Students in Northern States, Nigeria. The study used ex-post facto design, which is a non-experimental design. 2,482 respondents were randomly sampled for the study, 2480 copies of questionnaire were returned, using multistage sampling techniques. A modified four (4) point Likert measuring scale format was used to collect data. Pilot study was carried out to test for validity and reliability of the instrument to be administered. Descriptive statistics of frequency count, percentages, mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research question, while inferential statistics of Pearson’s Product Moment correlation coefficient was used to test for influence of attitude on practice toward healthful school living among senior secondary students in Northern state Nigeria. The analysis was conducted with decision criterion of 0.05 alpha level of significance. Results of study revealed that, attitude have significant influence on practice towards healthful school living among senior secondary school students in Northern states. In conclusion; Students were with the belief that, school playground safety was very important for health school living. The attitude of senior secondary school students towards healthful school in Northern State, Nigeria had positive and proportional influence on their health practices. The higher the attitudinal change the more the health practice among students, which means that there is a direct relationship between attitude and practices toward healthful school living among senior secondary school students in Northern States, Nigeria and vice versa. Based on the conclusion, the following recommendations were made; Health promotion and education programme should be emphasized on by the government at all level especially in the senior secondary school students in Northern states, Nigeria, teaching of health education in senior secondary schools in Northern states, Nigeria should be improved and school authorities must ensure that, adequate space and conducive environment is provided for students to enable teaching and learning.

Key words; Attitude, practice, healthful school living and Nigeria

COVID-19 AND EDUCATION IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN RIVERS STATE

¹Nweke, Emmanuel Onyekachi; ²Wobo, Anthony Anayor & ³Josephine Dick

¹Department of Office Technology and Management, Capt. Elechi Amadi Polytechnic, Port Harcourt

²Department of Educational Management, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt

³Department of Educational Management, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt

Email: emy1242000@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT:

The paper looked into Covid-19 and Education in Tertiary Institutions in Rivers State.  Covid-19 brought about so many issues resulting to learning lacuna in our tertiary educational institutions in Rivers State.  The paper deployed secondary sources of textbooks, internet sources, and newspapers in generating literature.  It covered the concept of novel covid-19 pandemic. It x-rayed students learning abilities under the ravaging covid-19 era, economic strength of students and parents to acquire learning facilities, and the remote learning under covid-19.  The experiences of learning gap, the general impact on our educational system were equally examined.  The paper concluded that Covid-19 obstructed learning and teaching activities in tertiary institutions in Rivers State. Parents and students had a drop in their economic life to enable them buy data and other materials to cope with the new normal method of learning.  The remote learning and teaching was entirely novel to the tertiary terrain in Rivers State.  There were no initial training and change management approach prior to the emergency which gulped the entire world.  The paper suggested that management of tertiary institutions in Rivers State, should from time to time organize seminars and workshops on e-learning, the e-learning process should be made part of the mainstream learning process by the management of tertiary institutions in Rivers State and that academic staff in tertiary institutions should engage in personal development and not necessarily waiting for management all the time.

Key Words: Covid-19, Education, Tertiary institutions in Rivers State, Learning abilities, Economy of learning, Remote Learning.

ROLES OF MOTIVATION OF SUPPORTIVE STAFF OF NASARAWA STATE SPORT COUNCIL ON ATHLETES’ PERFORMANCE IN NATIONAL SPORT FESTIVALS

¹Isah Ali; ^*2Yusuf Abubakar & ²Florence Bola Adeyanju

Department of Physical and Health Education, College of Education Akwanga, Nasararwa State

Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna State

Email: ^*yakgez337@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:

This paper examined the roles of motivation of Supportive Staff of Nasarawa State Sport Council on Athlete’s performance in National Sport Festivals. One hundred and ninty eighty (198) questionnaire were administered to the respondents of which one hundred and seventy four (174) copies were retrieved. Ex-pos- facto research design was adopted for the study while statistical package for Social Science (SPSS) vision 22 was used to analyze the data. The results indicated that the roles of Supportive Staff of Nasarawa State Sport Council correlate positively with athletes’ performance (number of medals won by the athletes during National Sport Festivals). The researchers concluded that   Supportive staff plays prominent role in motivating athletes in national sports festival which influenced their performance. This is because, They provide social support to athletes in sporting events with indicate strong relationship with athletes’ performance during national sport festival finally recommended that supportive staff of Nasarawa State sport council should be well motivated through regular payment of salary, sponsorship to attend courses as this motivation has direct influence on athletes’ performance.

THE IMPACT OF INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMME ON STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN MATHEMATICS

Omotosho, Gabriel Akinlolu

Department of Math/ Stat

Isah Mustapha Agwai I Polytechnic, Lafia

Email: jogbodoakinlolu@gmail.com

ABSTRACT: The study investigated the impact of instructional programme on students’ performance in mathematics in Nasarawa State. The study was designed to find out whether students taught geometry using instructional programme would perform better in mathematics than those taught using the conventional method.  Two hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The design of the study was quasi-experimental, non-equivalent pre-test, post- test control group type. Purposive sampling technique was employed in the selection of the schools for the study. Mathematics Performance Test (MPT) with reliability coefficient of 0.84 was used for data collection. Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used for testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results showed that there is significant difference in mean performance scores between the students taught mathematics using instructional programme and those taught using the conventional method. The results showed that there is no significant difference in the performance of male and female students taught mathematics with instructional programme.

Keywords: Teacher-Centered Method, Performance in Mathematics, Discovery Learning, Conventional Method

LIBRARIANSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE: BENEFITS, CHALLENGES, AND STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT

Wavi Pur Mamza & Linus Nihungu Ahaz 

Department of Library and Information Science,

Modibbo Adama University of Technology Yola, Adamawa State

ABSTRACT: Librarianship is all about getting people out of the knowledge circle to give the community of users the necessary information. The shifts in the way material processing, delivery and recuperation are viewed as culture technology progresses. The goal of this study is to illustrate the role of ICT in the production, management, storage, retrieval and diffusion of knowledge for the productive delivery of services. The research thus explored the notion of why the urge for ICT library operations. Based on the literature revealed, poor countries such as Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, etc. are significantly behind schedule and will not be able to reach and be successful in industries unless they strategize attempts to adopt a new Technology. The advantages of using ICT in information centers are enormous as internet services can also be used to access research education, networking, and even entertainment content. It was also shown that the boundary of distance, time and cost were closed for things to happen with implemented ICT driven libraries.

Keywords: ICT, ICT Literacy, advantages, challenges, and strategies.

EDUCATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND EFFECTIVE SCHOOL SUPERVISION IN NIGERIA

Ele, Augustine Augustine; Eja, Michael Asor; Egbonyi, Romanus Cyprian & Ido, David Egwa

Department of Business Management, University of Calabar, Calabar

Department of Educational Administration and Planning, University of Calabar, Calabar

Department of Educational Management, University of Calabar, Calabar

Department of Microbiology, Cross River State College of Nursing, Midwifery and Public Health Sciences, Itigidi

Email: elenoble2000@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT:

The study investigated the relationship between educational change management strategy and effective school supervision in the Nigeria secondary school system. The study adopted correlational research design. The population of this research work comprised of 376 respondents. The study adopted census sampling system in selecting 282 teachers. The study utilized Pearson Product Moment of Correlation Coefficient and multiple regression analysis to test the hypotheses. The study revealed that principals’ empirical-rational strategy significantly relates to effective school supervision in the Nigeria school system. It also revealed that principals’ environmental-adaptive strategy significantly relates to effective school supervision in the Nigeria school system. The study also shown that principals’ power-coercive strategy significantly relates with effective supervision of secondary schools in the aspects of instructional delivery, record keeping as well as maintenance of school facilities. The study also revealed that principals’ change management strategies such as empirical-rational strategy, environmental-adaptive strategy and power-coercive change management strategy significantly predicts or forecast effective school supervision in the Nigeria secondary school system. It concluded that effective school supervision is enhance through the introduction of educational change management strategies such as empirical-rational strategy, environmental-adaptive strategy as well as power-coercive strategy in the management and administration of the educational system.

Keywords: Change Management strategy, Empirical-rational strategy, Environmental-adaptive strategy, Power-coercive strategy and Effective school supervision.