Browsing by Author "Adegoke, B. A"

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Combating boys' drop-out rate in Nigeria:an evaluation of strategies that work
(Pen Services, No 2, Chief J. B Ojo street, saw mill, old Ife road, P. O. Box 22649, Ibadan, 2005) Emeke, E. A; Adegoke, B. A
Determinant of students' cognitive achievement in senoir secondary school physics: how important is test response mode?
(2006) Emeke, E. A; Adegoke, B. A
In this paper, the authors, using the ex-post -factor procedure, examine the effect of test response mode (essay and objective tests) on students' scholastic achievement in physics at the senior secondary school level. The sample consisted of 475 SSII students(233 males and 242 females) drawn from seven randomly selected senior secondary schools in Ibadan south east local government area of Oyo state. Data analysis was done using mean scores and t-test (paired and independent sample). Results showed that: students performed better in objective test than in essay test. There was no significant difference in the performance of male and female students in the objective test. Male students performed better than female students in essay test. The authors offered suggestions on what physics teacher could do to help students achieve better results in physics essay tests and sustain thier interest in physics, and more importantly improve their overall performance in physics
Effect of indirect and direct teacher influence on dependent-prone students learning outcomes in geometry
(2006-07) Emeke, E. A; Adegoke, B. A
Personality factors and teachers' teaching style are among the many factors that affect students' learning. In the study, the writer examine the effect of direct and indirect teacher influence on dependence-prone students' learning outcomes in geometry at the senior secondary school level. The top 25% (216) based on the scores of 864 on a dependence-prone test were used in the study. The 216 identified dependence-prone students were divided into two groups and each was exposed to the two constracting teacher-talk strategies (direct verus indirect). Using both descriptive and multivariate statistical analysis, results showed that treatment contributed significantly to the variations in the dependent-prone students' mean cognitive achievement in geometry. A major implication of this study is that closer supervision through the use of direct influence, an all common antidote to lower achievement in mathematics and the sciences, may be harmful to dependent-prone students
Prevalence of smoking behaviour among adolescents in Ibadan south-east local government, Nigeria
(Soceity for Psychology in Sport and Human Behaviour, 2005) Emeke, E. A; Adegoke, B. A
The study investigated the prevalence of smoking among the adolescents in Ibadn south-east (local government,Nigeria). In all, 500(253 males and 247 females)adolescents were sampled. They were all senior secondary school students randomly selected from nineteen public senior secondary schools in Ibadan south east, Nigeria. Their ages ranged from 14-19 years (X̅=16.58; S. D=1.45). using both descritpive (frequency count and percentages) and inferential (Pearson correlation and chi-square at P<0.05) statistics it was observed that; more males than females indicated that they do smoke; smoking cuts across the ages sampled; adolescents from separated home tend to engage in smoking more tahn their colleagues from intact homes; and adolescents from homes whose parents were in the high soci-economi stratum tend to engage in smoking more than adolescents from homes whose parents were in the low socio-economic stratum. The study points to the fact that more aggressive counseling should be put in place in schools and married couples need to be counseled against divorce.