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Correlation Between Attitude and Socio-Economic Status of Students’ Performance in Computer Science
Edosomwan Joseph Henry,
Edosomwan Taiwo Olukemi
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 4, August 2015
Pages:
75-77
Received:
16 July 2015
Accepted:
21 July 2015
Published:
31 July 2015
Abstract: This research study examined a dependent relationship between students’ attitude and socio-economic status performance in computer science. For the purpose of this work, 200 Junior and Secondary School students in Oredo, Egor, Ikpoba-Okha and Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria were investigated. The instruments for the data collection were students’ socio-economic status questionnaire, students’ attitude using computing scale and computer science performance test. A research questionnaire (Fraser’s 1981) was used to collect data. The reliability of each instrument was determined using test-retest method at two weeks interval. The result shows that the reliability coefficients for students’ socioeconomic status questionnaire, students’ attitudes to computer science scale and computer science performance test were 0.82, 0.93 and 0.81 respectively. Three null hypotheses were used to test the relationship between students’ socio-economic status, attitudes to computer science and their performance in computer science. The investigation lasted for 28 days. All the null hypotheses were rejected at 0.05 levels, this reveals that there s a dependent relationship existing between students socio-economic status, students attitudes to computer science and performance in computer science.
Abstract: This research study examined a dependent relationship between students’ attitude and socio-economic status performance in computer science. For the purpose of this work, 200 Junior and Secondary School students in Oredo, Egor, Ikpoba-Okha and Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria were investigated. The instruments for the data...
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Comparative Effect of Mastery Learning and Mind Mapping Approaches in Improving Secondary School Students’ Learning Outcomes in Physics
Oluwatosin Omolara Blessing,
Bello Theodora Olufunke
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 4, August 2015
Pages:
78-84
Received:
23 June 2015
Accepted:
20 July 2015
Published:
28 July 2015
Abstract: This study investigated the effect of Mastery Learning Approach (MLA) and Mind Mapping Approach (MMA) in improving students’ academic performance in Physics and also determined their effect in enhancing students’ retention of Physics. These were with a view to ascertaining the best teaching method for improving students’ learning outcomes in Physics. The study adopted the non-equivalent pre-test, post-test control group experimental design. Simple random sampling technique was used to select three co-educational secondary schools in Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State in Nigeria. The sample for the study was 74 senior secondary school one (SSS1) Physics students from the three selected secondary schools. Three intact classes were used for the study. The instrument used for data collection was “Physics Achievement and Retention Test” (PART). Data collected were analyzed using t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The results showed that there was a significant effect of treatment on the academic performance of students taught with MLA, MMA and conventional method with students taught using MMA showing the best academic performance, followed by MLA and then Conventional. Also, no significant effect of treatment was found in the retention ability of students taught with MLA and MMA with students from both methods having nearly the same mean score. The study concludes that both MLA and MMA could improve students’ learning outcomes in Physics; however, MMA could improve students’ learning outcomes better. It therefore recommends that ministry of education should organize training for science teachers especially Physics teachers on how best they can adopt these innovative teaching strategies during instruction so that learners would be guided to learn meaningfully and be assisted to retain what is learnt in Physics.
Abstract: This study investigated the effect of Mastery Learning Approach (MLA) and Mind Mapping Approach (MMA) in improving students’ academic performance in Physics and also determined their effect in enhancing students’ retention of Physics. These were with a view to ascertaining the best teaching method for improving students’ learning outcomes in Physic...
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Modern Design Education: Nurture in Technological Innovation and Social Responsibility
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 4, August 2015
Pages:
85-88
Received:
13 July 2015
Accepted:
27 July 2015
Published:
5 August 2015
Abstract: There is a strong interactive relationship between the education and the development of modern design. Every essential progress in design education had most probably encouraged a further development of modern design. The encouragement came not only from the educational practice, but also from the educational theory study which inevitably referred to the cultivating of design idea. As the establishment or the change of ideas could deeply influence the practice as well as the academic researching in modern design, the training of good thinking is revealing its importance in modern design education implementation. Here under a historical background of the evolution of modern design movements, it gives a general interpretation on the idea and practice of modern design education in the method of technological and ethical sociology, in which the application of technology to innovation and the sense of social responsibility draw a central attention comparatively, so as to present and clarify the meanings of the relationship between technology, society and design with the main objective of exhibiting the importance of technological innovation and social responsibility in the principles of modern design education.
Abstract: There is a strong interactive relationship between the education and the development of modern design. Every essential progress in design education had most probably encouraged a further development of modern design. The encouragement came not only from the educational practice, but also from the educational theory study which inevitably referred t...
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A Survey of Information Seeking-Behavior of Academic Staff in a Nigerian University in Digital Age
Blessing Esuru Ahiauzu,
Okon Edet Ani
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 4, August 2015
Pages:
89-94
Received:
16 July 2015
Accepted:
29 July 2015
Published:
7 August 2015
Abstract: The paper surveys the patterns of information-seeking behavior of academic staff in Nigeria in the emerging electronic information environment. Academic staff in Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), Port Harcourt, Nigeria were used as respondents in the survey. Questionnaire survey was used as research method for data collection. The findings of the study have shown that, the information-seeking behavior of academic staff in RSUST is in favor of electronic information sources on the Internet, as the Internet was the most frequently used information source (31.59%), closely followed by personal contacts/collections 23.98%, workshop/conferences/seminars (23.72%) than the traditional library (20.71%). The paper recommends that, the librarians, university managements, the governments etc. must respond proactively to meet the changing information-seeking behavior of academic staff through effective development of electronic information sources – the Internet and virtual libraries in Nigerian universities for efficiency in research and sustainable national development.
Abstract: The paper surveys the patterns of information-seeking behavior of academic staff in Nigeria in the emerging electronic information environment. Academic staff in Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), Port Harcourt, Nigeria were used as respondents in the survey. Questionnaire survey was used as research method for data collecti...
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Reflections on Effective Teaching
Huaqiong Xu,
Zhongfeng Hu
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 4, August 2015
Pages:
95-99
Received:
22 July 2015
Accepted:
7 August 2015
Published:
14 August 2015
Abstract: People focus on effective teaching in the new curriculum reform in China. The understanding of the implication of effective teaching is diverse, but we should make clear in some problems. The evaluation standards for effective teaching are keeping pace with the times according to the influencing factors which include students’ learning, teachers’ teaching, learning content and learning environment. The implementation of effective teaching should be on the basis of “three-dimensional object”, promote effective interaction between teachers and students，focus on the selection and design of learning content，create effective learning environment for students and conduct integration of various research methods
Abstract: People focus on effective teaching in the new curriculum reform in China. The understanding of the implication of effective teaching is diverse, but we should make clear in some problems. The evaluation standards for effective teaching are keeping pace with the times according to the influencing factors which include students’ learning, teachers’ t...
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