iosr-JRME   Volume-9 ~ Issue-5 ~ Sep-Oct 2019

Abstract: The study sought to find out appraisal of internal supervisory functions of principals in Public Secondary Schools in Abakaliki Education Zone of Ebonyi State. To achieve the purpose of the study, two (2) corresponding specific purposes guided the conduct of this study which is in line with the research questions and null hypotheses formulated for the study. A comprehensive related literature was reviewed not only to serve as a guide to the researcher but also to give insight into what has already been done by other researchers in the related areas of the study. The design of this study was descriptive survey research design aimed at eliciting information from the respondents based on the research questions and null hypotheses that guided the conduct of this study. The population.....

 

Key words; Supervision, Instructional Supervision, Principals, Internal Supervision.

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Abstract: This study focused on school related variables and students academic performance in secondary schools in Abakaliki Education Zone of Ebonyi State. Two specific purpose were formulated to give guide to the study which was in line with the research questions and hypothesis. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. This study was conducted in Abakaliki Education zone, out of the three education zones in Ebonyi State. The population of this study comprised all the 1915 teachers in the public secondary schools in Abakaliki Education Zone of Ebonyi State. The sample of the study comprised of 405 teachers. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled: School related variable and student academic performance in Secondary........

Key words; Education, Teachers, Variables, School Variable School Personnel, School Environment

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Abstract: This study examined school plant maintenance as a determinant for principal's effectiveness in the administration of secondary schools in Nigeria with its focus on Ebonyi State. The study is guided by three research questions and two null hypotheses. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised all the 223 public secondary school principals and 5,082 secondary school teachers in both urban and rural areas of the state. The sample consists of 100 principals, while 1,510 teachers were selected through disproportionate stratified sampling procedure. This gave a total of 1,610 respondents. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire designed by the researchers. It is a 15-item questionnaire constructed on a 4-point scale by the researchers. It also received validation by two experts from Educational Administration............

 

Key words; Plant, Maintenance, Determinant, Effectiveness, Administration and Secondary

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Abstract: The study investigated the extent principals exercise autonomy in the administration of secondary school in Ebonyi State. The study was guided by four research questions and one hypothesis. The researchers adopted a descriptive survey design. The population of the study was made up of 233 principals and 1,056 teachers, giving a total of 1279 people. The sample of the study comprised of 710 respondents (100 principals and 610 teachers) selected through disproportionate stratified simple random sampling technique. A 28-item structured questionnaire entitled principals exercise of autonomy in secondary school Administration (PEASSA) was designed by the researchers for use to collect data from respondents. The instrument was validated by three experts to ascertain the suitability and face validity of the items. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Crombach...........

 

Key words;Principals, autonomy, administration, secondary, school and Ebonyi.

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Abstract: This study was to analyze the effects of using mobile virtual lab for students in practicum learning, especially those related to their metacognition- knowledge and regulation. The method used was qualitative research. To collect the data, three instruments were used—closed and opened questionnaires, observation sheet, and practicum worksheet. The data were obtained from 105 junior high school students from seven different schools in Semarang. The data obtained showed that the students' metacognitive knowledge worked well. They were very aware of the materials they learnt and the strategy in doing their practicum. During using it, they could monitor and control........

 

Key words; Mobile, Learning, Virtual, Laboratory, Junior High School

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Abstract: Provision of higher education to persons who are qualified is a priority to the success of the Government's overall development strategy. Academic achievement plays a key role in assuring quality education. Students who have difficulty in resolving academic stress as an intrapersonal conflict experienced while on campus may display a drop in their academic performance. University students while on campus experience academic stress aspects related with their usual ways of modeling and wanting to stay relevant to the demands of others and the environment resulting into undesirable outcomes which influence academic achievement to a large extent. The purpose of the study was to assess the influence of academic stress as an intrapersonal conflict on students' academic achievement in public universities in Western Kenya. The specific objective was to determine..........

 

Key words; Academic achievement, intrapersonal conflicts, students, academic stress

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Abstract: One of the main challenges facing secondary education sector in Kenya and other parts of the world today is low secondary school completion rates, which is an indicator of low internal efficiency. Despite the effort by the central government of Kenya to initiate Free Secondary Education (FSE) and implementation of the policy of 100% completion rates, secondary school are still experiencing low completion rates. The objective of this study was to investigate the Influence of school culture on Secondary School Completion Rates in Samburu East Sub-county, Kenya. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The target population was 261 subjects derived from 254 Form Four students in secondary schools within Samburu East Sub-county, Kenya. Sample size of 156 form four students participated in the study as respondents. Stratified sampling technique was used.......

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Abstract: The study investigated the Influence of students' social classroom interactions on their learning Outcomes in English language in Ekiti State Senior Secondary schools, Nigeria. The study adopted the survey design. Multi-stage sampling technique was used in selecting the required number of respondents for the study. The population consisted of SS2 students in senior secondary schools in the state. A total sample of 137 students was used as study sample. Three instruments were developed, pilot tested and validated by the researcher and adopted in collecting data for the study: Students Social Classroom Interaction Questionnaire (SCSIQ) with Kudar-Richardson KR-20 reliability coefficient index of 0.72, Student English Language Attitude Scale (SELAS) with Kudar-Richardson KR-20 reliability coefficient index of 0.67 and Students English Language Motivation Scale (SELMS) with Kudar.........

 

Key words; Social interaction, Motivation, Attitude, Secondary school, English language

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Abstract: This study investigated the possession of linguistic politeness among upper primary school pupils in ten purposively selected private primary schools in one Nigerian town. The study involved one class each of primaries 4 and 5 pupils, from each of the ten purposively selected schools. Equal number of boys and girls were purposively selected from each class, among those whose parents permitted to take part in the study. The sample size was 100, consisting of boys and girls in equal proportion. The instrument used for data collection was a researcher constructed linguistic politeness test, having 14 items with YES or NO response. A different and shorter version of the instrument was administered first and used as correlate for the main test. The results of the tests were analysed using analysis of variance (ANOVA)..........

Key words; linguistic politeness, primary school, children, culture, language use

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