The Federal Government of Nigeria introduced the Strengthening Maths and Science Education (SAMSE) Program for re-trianing primary schol Instructors in Nigeria with a view to updating Instructors’ knowledge and skills at ...
Analysis of students’ response and response-time data availed test-developers, pyschometricians and researchers the opportunity toimpartially measureexaminees’learning outcomes with the advent of Item Response Theory (IRT). ...
There are evidence of poor indicators (teacher effectiveness, students non-cognitive outcomes,
students achievement in English Language and Mathematics) of educational quality performance
in most secondary schools in ...
Test items of public examinations are expected to be valid and reliable when good
frameworks are used. Besides, the scoring of the items must be guided by an objective
theoretical framework. Studies have shown that ...
Pre-primary education programmes aim at increasing children’s school readiness and positive long-term improvement in cognitive (literacy and numeracy), psychomotor and socio-emotional skills as well as school performance ...
Islamic Studies is taught at Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) to inculcate discipline in students. However, evidence have shown that most of the students regardless of religion being practiced lack discipline and morals. The ...
The level of students’ achievement and skills acquisition in business studies at the Junior SecondarySchool Certificate Examination is just slightly above average in Nigeria. The curriculum specifies that the skills aspect ...
The Chief Examiners’ Reports in Mathematics, 2016 to 2018 of the West African Examination Council, show that Senior Secondary School (SSS) students’ performance in Circle Geometry (CG) in public examinations in Nigeria was ...
Job performance entails scalable activities and behaviours that are assessed with the Annual Performance Evaluation Report (APER) form among University Senior Non-academic Staff (USNS) on grade levels 6-12 in Nigeria. ...
Over the years, examination bodies have observed low achievement in demanding mathematical questions such as mensuration, trigonometric-graph and construction. Past studies investigating the effect of teaching strategies ...
Economics as a school subject helps students understand and develop basic economic skills needed for self and national development. However, available records have shown that many Senior Secondary Students (SSSs) in Oke-Ogun ...
Girls’ Education Project (GEP) managed by UNICEF and the federal and state governments seeks to improve the quality of primary education for the girl-child and eliminate gender disparity in education in Northern Nigeria. ...
Statistics show that Senior Secondary School (SSS) students’ performance in chemistry in public examinations in Nigeria is slightly above average. Past studies on improving student performance have focused largely on teacher ...
Reading is a language skill that cuts across every other school subject. However, it has been observed that senior secondary school students have low comprehension skills, which might be due to the instructional strategies ...
Students known as Big-Fish-Little-Pond (BFLP) are those with higher achievement scores in primary schools which decreases overtime in highly competitive secondary schools. The BFLP overtime decline performance has been ...
Standardised tests are capable of measuring pre-school children’s latent reading ability and are also used to assess examinees' performance across norms (gender, age, school-type and location). However, in Nigeria and Oyo ...
A recurrent argument among educational psychologists globally is the number of dimensions that Student Mathematics Engagement Scale (SMES) should have. Some authors argued that it should be one dimension, while others ...
Biology is an important school subject to students who aspire to be scientists. Trends of students’ performance in external examinations indicated that less than 50% of candidates usually pass the subject at a minimum of ...
Workers’ commitment has been found to depend on leadership style adopted by the leader, gender relations as well as organisational climate. In order to achieve organisational goal, high level of workers’ commitment is ...