A CASE STUDY OF SCHOOL - RELATED FACTORS AFFECTING NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL PUPILS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE By Dr. Olaniyi Bojuwoye ABSTRACT A ten-item questionnaire containing various descriptions of school-related characteristic which have been found to adversely affect pupils academic performance was administered on 809 teachers and 1012 students of secondary schools from ten randomly selected states in Nigeria. The respondents ranked the characteristics in terms of their degree of effect
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SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT AND SOME PSYCHO-SOCIAL DETERMINANT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ OUTCOMES IN PHYSICS IN IBADAN CHAPTER ONE 1.0 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Physics plays a pertinent role as a result of its widespread application in all areas of life and in the field of success‚ technology‚ industry and mines. Odunko (2002) is of the opinion that science‚ technology and science education plays a dominant role in the developmental
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monitors students’ progress. It includes all activities that teachers and students undertake to get information that can be used diagnostically to alter teaching and learning. Under this definition‚ basement encompasses teacher’s observation‚ classroom discussion‚ and analysis of student work‚ including homework and test. Assessment become formative when the informative is used to adapt teaching learning to meet student needs. When teachers know how students are progressing and where they are having
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education: research and results. Albert‚ Bill. 2010. New Studies renew sex education debate. National Campaign to prevent teen and unplanned pregnancy. Alford‚ Sue. 2001. Sex education programs: definition and point-by-point comparisonb Alford‚ Sue et. al. 2003. Science and success: sex education and other programs that work to prevent teen pregnancy‚ HIV and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Anderson‚ Kerby. 1993. Sex education programs and their effects. Oregon. Cairns‚ E. 1990. The relationship between
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term secondary school refers to the levels of schooling that follow elementary school and conclude with high school graduation. Typically‚ these include middle schools or junior high schools‚ the most common configuration of which is grades six through eight‚ and high schools‚ the most common configuration of which is grades nine through twelve. The 1983 release of the National Commission on Excellence in Education document A Nation at Risk focused national attention on the need for school reform
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said about teachers and teaching “Ah! There you have the worst paid and the best rewarded of vocations. Do not enter it unless you love it. For the vast majority of men and women it has no promise of wealth and fame‚ but they to whom it is dear for its own sake are among the nobility of mankind. I sing the praise of the unknown teacher‚ king of himself and leader of the mankind‚” This‚ we may say is the philosophical meaning of teaching‚ but is very relevant and meaning also. The teacher is the
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“Teaching ICT in secondary School Introduction ICT an acronym for information and communications technology. ICT was introduced in the national curricula of England and Wales in 1999 to define a set of tools used to process and communicate information. The processing and communicating of information has become ubiquitous at the heart of teaching and learning and as such ICT is central to effective secondary school education. This feature gives ICT a unique status in the secondary school curriculum
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Elementary School Teachers are the beginning of every student’s life for 14+ years of schooling ahead of them. They are people who are starting each child out with a successful future. Elementary school teachers introduce to the children curriculum areas in reading‚ math‚ social studies‚ and sciences which are all basic requirements for further education. Every state requires that public school teachers be certified for at least one‚ or several related subjects. Not only a Bachelor’s Degree is needed;
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Discipline: Effective School Practices BY GEORGE BEAR‚ PHD‚ NCSP‚ University of Delaware‚ Newark Traditionally‚ with respect to school discipline‚ American educators ha ve had two distinct aims: (a) to help create and maintain a safe‚ orderly‚ and positive learning environment‚ w hich often requires the use of discipline to correct misbehavior; and (b) to teach or develop self-disci pline. Both aims are equally important and should always be included in the development and evaluation of
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DEVELOPMENT OF A WEB-BASED STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA Advance Business Information Technology Project- Edexcel Martin Beaver 2010 0 E-Student Management System Abstract It is not a surprise that many learning institutions in Nigeria‚ are still keeping records in files and gather them in filling cabinets where the accumulate dust. A great deal of routine administrative work in secondary school is still done manually. Today‚ in most countries‚ computers
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