Category Archives: International Journal of Educational Research and Management Technology 2017

CONTENTS

Fiscal and Physical Planning: Challenges and Way Forward in Vocational and Technical Education in Nigeria

¹Ahmodu, O. L.; ²Sheu, A. A. & ²Adeyemi, A. B……………..………………1

Impact of Guidance and Counselling on Career Choice among Secondary School Students in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State

Edward Kuruku & Yahaya Ibrahim………………………………………….11

The Impact of Educational Facilities on the Academic Performance of Secondary School Students: Case Study of Borno State

Markus Kwaji…………………………………………………………………31

The Influence of Social Media on Academic Achievement of Higher Education Students in Science and Technology Education

Bena U. Chukwuneke & Felix Aburime…………………………………….50

Factors affecting the Standard of Education in Public Primary Schools in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria

¹Markus Kwaji; ²Aginde Terdoo David; ³Ode Sunday Adikpe & ⁴Sylvester Igwe Sylvester………………..………………………………………….………63

Strategies for Enhancing the Teaching of Foundry Technology in Colleges of Education (Technical) in North Western States of Nigeria

Munkaila Abdullahi Dokadawa……………………………………………..74

Examining Relationship between Emotional Disposition and Academic Self-Efficacy among University Undergraduate Students

Victor Moses, Umma Abdulwahid, & E.F. Adeniyi……………….……….101

The Influence of Social Media on Academic Achievement of Higher Education Students in Science and Technology Education

Bena U. Chukwuneke and Felix Aburime…………………………………..113

Application of Linear Stochatic Modelling for Nigerian Monthly Crude Oil Exports

Chima Godknows Igiri & Ette Harrison Etuk…………………………………………126

Effect of Multimedia Presentation on Achievement of Motor Vehicle Mechanic Works Students in Science and Technical Colleges in Benue State

John Iorlumun Unongo & Henda Cordelia Hembadoon………………… 137

Pedagogy of Information and Communication Technology for Digital Teaching and Learning of Biology in Nigeria

Mathew, B. A., Onimisi, A. O., Salifu, M., Fakolade, B. A . & Abuh, S.J….147

Time Series Analysis of Nigerian External Reserves

Okeregwu, Blessing Amaka and Etuk, Ette Harrison……………………164

Fiscal and Physical Planning: Challenges and Way Forward in Vocational and Technical Education in Nigeria

¹Ahmodu, O. L.; ²Sheu, A. A. & ²Adeyemi, A. B.

¹Department of Management Sciences

College of Social and Management Sciences, Wesley University, Ondo State

²Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin

Email: ahmoduolamidelateef10@gmail.com

Corresponding Author: Ahmodu, O. L.

ABSTRACT

Vocational and technical education is a facet of education which leads to the acquisition of practical and applied skills as well as basic scientific knowledge. This practical and applied skills knowledge could only be achieved through a good fiscal and physical planning and lead to the achievement of VTE objectives as stated in the National Policy on Education. This paper examines various dimensions of fiscal and physical planning and takes a cursory look on the important of fiscal planning to VTE, the sources of funding for VTE, contributions of fiscal and physical planning to the development of VTE, the challenges faced by VTE and way forward in improving VTE in Nigeria. The research method used for this study was phenomenological method of qualitative research. The study revealed that VTE programmes require adequate funding and new innovative measure should be put in place to improve the programme. Based on this study, it was recommended that government should encourage continuity of the programme by amassed the percentage of fund allocated to VTE.

Keywords: Fiscal Planning, Physical Planning, Vocational and Technical Education

Impact of Guidance and Counselling on Career Choice among Secondary School Students in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue StateGovernment Area of Benue State

Edward Kuruku & Yahaya Ibrahim

Department of Psychology

Benue State University, Makurdi

Email: edwardkuruku@gmail.com

Corresponding Author: Edward Kuruku

ABSTRACT

The study examined the impact of guidance and counselling on career choice among secondary school Education in Otukpo Local Government Area o Benue State. A total of 180 participants were selected for the study. The participants comprised of 94 males (55.2%) and 86 female (47.8%) with a range of 15-20 years. The study adopted a survey design. Data was collected through the use of initial Students Counseling Needs Scale (SCNS) developed by Devellis (1991) and Career Assessment Scale (CAS) by Missouri Comprehensive Guidance Model (2002). Four hypotheses were tested using independent sample test (t-test) and the result shows that guidance and counseling services have a statistical significant effect on career choice of male and female students among secondary schools in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State. Based on these findings, the following recommendations were made: Teachers and students should be made aware of immense benefit of Guidance and Counselling by the school counselor, Guidance and Counselling should be given a period in the school curricular to encourage students to participate in career choice making and qualified counselors should be employed by school management.

Keywords: Guidance, Counselling, Career, Choice, Otukpo

The Impact of Educational Facilities on the Academic Performance of Secondary School Students: Case Study of Borno State

Markus Kwaji

Department of Vocational and Technical Education

Benue State University Makurdi, Nigeria

Email: marcuskhore@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Theoretical and empirical studies have considered the significance of school facilities on student’s performance. This study is on The Impact of Educational Facilities on the Academic Performance of Secondary School Student in Lassa, Askira-Uba Local Government of Borno State. It covers five secondary schools. Two hundred (200) respondents took part in the study (one hundred and fifty (150) students, and fifty (50) teachers). The research designed for the study was descriptive survey method, whereby mean and standard deviation statistical analysis was used for research question 1, 2, 3,4, and 5. Findings revealed that presence of sufficient classrooms, libraries, hostel accommodation contribute positively to the student academic performance as well as their absence contributes negatively to some of the schools. Absence of electricity, computers, chairs, and desk had negative impact on the student performance. Sufficient text books and teaching materials facilitate learning. The environments are not noisy as they are not close by market or refineries. School buildings are well-equipped with educational facilities do enhance teaching and learning with the help of qualified personnel’s. Conclusion was that facilities are potent to high academic achievement of students. Recommended were that state government should develop more useful and reliable policies for provision and distribution of educational facilities and resources in lassaaskira-uba local government. School administrators should organize fund raising events to draw attention to the areas where facilities are seriously needed.

Keywords: Educational facilities, Academic performance, Borno State

The Influence of Social Media on Academic Achievement of Higher Education Students in Science and Technology Education

Bena U. Chukwuneke & Felix Aburime

Department of Science Education

Madonna University, Nigeria, Okija Campus

Email:benachukwuneke@gmail.com

Corresponding Author: Bena U. Chukwuneke

ABSTRACT

The influence of social media on academic achievement of students was investigated. Survey research design was employed. The study was carried out in Anambra State of Nigeria. The population of the study comprised of all the tertiary institutions in Anambra State offering Science Education. A simple random sampling with replacement was used to draw the sample. 300 students and 30 lecturers were sampled. 330 subjects were therefore used for the study. Three research questions were answered and one hypothesis was tasted. The instrument used for the data collection was questionnaire prepared by the researcher, which utilized 4-point likert rating scale. Data generated was analyzed using mean, and t- test. The result of the study showed that students often engage on social media during lecture periods, social media exerts negative influence on academic achievement of Science Education students. Social media has positive influence on the acquisition of entrepreneurial skills in Science Education. It was then concluded that the use of camera phones should be abolished during lecture periods.

Factors affecting the Standard of Education in Public Primary Schools in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria

¹Markus Kwaji; ²Aginde Terdoo David; ³Ode Sunday Adikpe & ⁴Sylvester Igwe Sylvester

^1,2,3Department of Vocational and Technical Education, Benue State University, Makurdi

⁴Department of Technology Education, School of Technology and Science Education, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria

Email:marcuskhore@gmail.com,terdoodavid22@gmail.com,odesundayadikpe@gmail.com, sylvester.sylvester01@yahoo.com

Corresponding Author:Markus Kwaji

ABSTRACT

The study examined the factors affecting the standard of education in public schools. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and was carried out in Gboko Local Government of Benue State. The population of this study was 264 respondents. 24 primary schools out of 173 were sampled. A 12-item structured questionnaire developed by the researchers titled “Factors Affecting the Standard of Education in Public Primary in Gboko Local Government” was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by three experts and a reliability of 0.83 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha Correlation Co-efficient which proved the instrument was reliable to be used for fieldwork. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer research questions whereby a mean cut-off point of 3.50 was used for decision making. From the result obtained, the study concludes that different factors affect the standard of education in public primary schools in the region ranging from teachers, parents, pupils to government factor. The study also found remedies such as an adequate number of teachers, regular payment of teacher’s salary, adequate allocation of funds for school facilities, etc. The study recommends among others that stakeholders of public primary schools that are the government, parents, and teachers should play their role seriously in order to improve the condition of public primary schools structurally, morally and otherwise. The government should avoid playing politics with teacher’s welfare. Adequate funds should be allocated for schools facilities in public primary schools to maintain the standard of education.Keywords: Standard of education, Educational factors, Gboko local government

Strategies for Enhancing the Teaching of Foundry Technology in Colleges of Education (Technical) in North Western States of Nigeria

Munkaila Abdullahi Dokadawa

Department Of Education (Technical)

School of Technology

Kano State Polytechnic, Kano

Email: amirgetso@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

The study was designed to identify the strategies for enhancing the teaching of Foundry technology in Colleges of Education (Technical). The study is a survey research design. A structured questionnaire of different strategies for teaching was used for data collection and was administered to 79 teachers of Foundry technology in Colleges of Education (Technical) in North western states ofNigeria.  Based on the findings conclusion was drawn that the respondents accepted the needs for instructional, utilitarian use of instructional materials and evaluation strategies for enhancing the teaching of Foundry technology Colleges of Education (Technical) in North western states of Nigeria. As this will result to producing graduates of Colleges of Education (Technical) who’s apart from the teaching job will be self-reliant and enterprising.

Time Series Analysis of Nigerian External Reserves

Okeregwu, Blessing Amaka & Etuk, Ette Harrison

Department of Mathematics

Rivers State University,P.M.B 5080, Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt

E-mail: okeregwuamakablessing26@gmail.com

Corresponding Author: Etuk, Ette Harrison

 

ABSTRACT

The need for proper understanding of the trend of the Nigeria’s external reserves can not be over emphasized, as it would help the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Federal Government of Nigeria to make policies that would grow her economy. In view of this, this paper attempts to identify and build a suitable and reliable Box-Jenkins model for modeling the Nigeria’s external reserves. Nigeria’s 34 years external reserve data from January, 1981 to December, 2014 was used to perform analysis in E-views. The ARIMA (4,1,0) model with the smallest AIC and BIC statistics was found to out-perform the ARIMA (4,1,1) model. This paper therefore proposes the ARIMA (4,1,0) model for forecasting Nigeria’s external reserves.

Keywords: Time Series, Box-Jenkins Model, ARIMA, External Reserves

           

EXAMINING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL DISPOSITION AND ACADEMIC SELF-EFFICACY AMONG UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

¹Victor Moses; ²Umma Abdulwahid & ³E.F. Adeniyi

^1&3Department of Educational Psychology & Counseling, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

²Dean Student Affairs, Jigawa State University, Kafin Hausa

Email:gstatconsulting@yahoo.com, abdulwahidumma@gmail.com, efadeniyi@yahoo.com

Corresponding Author: Victor Moses

ABSTRACT

The study examines relationship between emotional disposition and academic self-efficacy among undergraduate student. Five emotions of happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and anxiety were studied using correlational design and data was collected from 376 (male=199 and female=177) undergraduate students drawn from different courses of study. Two questionnaires – emotional disposition questionnaire (α=.919) and academic self-efficacy questionnaire (α=.776) were used to collect data which was analysed at .05 significant level. The Result suggests significant positive relationship between emotional disposition and academic self-efficacy, r(374) = .117, p = .023. Based on individual emotion, finding reveals a significant positive correlation between happiness and academic self-efficacy, r(374) = .148, p< .01, and also anger and academic self-efficacy, r(374) = .103, p< .05. No significant relationship was observed for sadness, r(374) = .098, p> .05; anxiety, r(374) = -.001, p> .05, fear and academic self-efficacy, r(374) = .045, p> .05. While t test analysis suggests no significant difference in happiness, fear, and anger based on gender,it was however found that female students had a mean score significantly higher than male in anxiety and all other negative emotions. From the findings, it was recommended among others that every university should consider assessing the psychological/emotional disposition of thousands of undergraduate students especially, the new and returning students as the knowledge of student’s wellbeing could help the university in providing necessary counselling support to students to improve their wellbeing in school.

Key word: Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Anxiety, and Academic Self-Efficacy

THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

Bena U Chukwuneke, PhD & Felix Aburime, PhD

Department of Science Education

Madonna University, Nigeria, Okija campus.

Email:benachukwuneke@gmail.com

Corresponding Author: Bena U. Chukwuneke, PhD

ABSTRACT

The influence of social media on academic achievement of students was investigated. Survey research design was employed. The study was carried out in Anambra State of Nigeria. The population of the study comprised of all the tertiary institutions in Anambra State offering Science Education. A simple random sampling with replacement was used to draw the sample. 300 students and 30 lecturers were sampled. 330 subjects were therefore used for the study. Three research questions were answered and one hypothesis was tasted. The instrument used for the data collection was questionnaire prepared by the researcher, which utilized 4-point likert rating scale. Data generated was analyzed using mean, and t- test. The result of the study showed that students often engage on social media during lecture periods, social media exerts negative influence on academic achievement of Science Education students. Social media has positive influence on the acquisition of entrepreneurial skills in Science Education. It was then concluded that the use of camera phones should be abolished during lecture periods.