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Continuous assessment practice in public and private schools in Lagos State
(IJNRL, 2012-06) Ibode, F. O.; Oparaku, D. D.
Continuous assessment practice was introduced into the Nigerian educational system about the year 1978. Since the inception of this assessment practice, it has come under various criticisms, especially in its conduct by teachers and the various schools concerned. From around 1998, continuous assessment scores from secondary schools were utilized by public examination bodies like WAEC and NECO as part of the final assessment of students for May/June senior school certificate examination on a ratio of 30:70 i.e. 30% for continuous assessment from schools and 70% from students ’ performance in SSCE. As a result of the utilization of continuous assessment scores from schools, there have been reported irregularities among public and private schools in the conduct of this assessment. This paper therefore, investigated the practice of continuous assessment in public and private secondary schools in Lagos State. The study is an expost-facto and the instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire. Simple percentage was used for data analysis. Findings from the study reveal that there is disparity in the practice of continuous assessment among schools in Lagos State. It was discovered that while some schools allocate 50% mark to continuous assessment and 50% to terminal examination, other schools allocate 10% mark to continuous assessment and 90% to terminal examination. The study also revealed that continuo us assessment practice in Lagos State is mostly centered on the cognitive domain of learning as against the practice of taking into cognizance other domains of learning, affective and psychomotor. The study, therefore, recommends that continuous assessment should be made to cover the three domains of learning. Also, there .should be uniformity in marks allocated to continuous assessment by schools. Furthermore, the study also recommends that regular training on continuous assessment should be organized for teachers at the secondary school level.
The effect of bilingual mode of instruction on pupils’ academic achievement in social studies in Oyo state primary schools
(2013-05) Ibode, F. O.; Ojo, M. M.
Bilingual mode of instruction is considered very important at the primary level of education. This becomes very necessary due to the multiplicity of languages evident in some countries like Nigeria. Consequently, bilingual situation is observed in primary schools at certain levels of primary education. Pupils learn and are taught in English language which is quite different from their ethnic languages. The study therefore investigated the effect of bilingual mode of instruction on pupils’ achievement in Social Studies. The study adopted quasi- experimental approach. Stratified and simple random sampling was used to draw a sample of200 basic six (6) pupils from four schools (two rural and two urban schools) for the study. The instrument (Social Studies Achievement Test (SSAT) was developed by the researchers and used for data collection. The instrument was subjected to Kuder Richardson 21 with reliability coefficient of 0.82. The result of the study show that the bilingual mode of instruction has significant effect on achievement of pupils in Social Studies F (1.191) - 72.738, p< 0.05 Partial Eta Square n?= .276. Therefore the effect size (27.6%) is moderate. Hence, mode of instruction accounted for 27.6% of the total variance in the pupils’ achievement in Social Studies.
Effects of problem based learning strategy on students’ academic achievement in english language in senior secondary school in Oyo state
(Institute of Education, University of Ibadan and Initiative for Excellent Research Output (IFERO) Ibadan, 2015) Amusa, O. O.; Ibode, F. O.
Mentoring and organizational behaviour
(The Ife Centre for Psychological Studies, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 2011) Ehigie, B. O.; Okang, G. O.; Ibode, F. O.
The need for job creation through university industrial collaboration in Nigeria
(Halygraph (Nigeria), 2015-12) Ibode, F. O.
The rate of graduate unemployment in Nigeria today has become very worrisome. Year after year, various institutions of higher learning in Nigeria turn out hundreds of graduates who storm the labour market in search of non-existing jobs. Those who are fortunate to get employment are often retrained by their establishments as some of them could hardly meet up the challenges of work. Many employers of labour in Nigeria often complain of graduate unemployability, stressing the need for collaboration between universities producing the graduates and the industries /establishment where they will work and earn a living. Also, some scholars subscribe to the opinion that such collaboration will increase the skills and productivity of university graduates in the work place. Hence, this paper dwells much on how universities and industrials can collaborate and create working situation that may facilitate graduate employability in the country.
Out-of-school adolescents in South West Nigeria: a concern to stakeholders
(African Journals Online, 2012-01) Ibode, F. O.
The growing number of children that is seen in the streets of south-western part of Nigeria while their counterparts are in schools receiving formal education has become a concern to stakeholders in education. It is now a common thing to see school age children involved in menial jobs like bus conducting, street hawking, house helping and even begging for alms in the streets while their peers are in regular schools. In order to curb this trend, the study therefore investigated the phenomenon of out-of-school children in South West, Nigeria. The study was guided by three research hypotheses. It is a descriptive survey research in which 1200 out-of-school adolescents were randomly selected from the six states that comprises the South-West region of Nigeria. The study discovered that the six predictor variables (lack of finance, single parentage, separated home, peer pressure, truancy and others) contributed significantly to the criterion variable (out-of- school children). The study also revealed that gender is related to the choice of career of out-of-school children. The study also discovered that gender has a significant contribution to out-of-school children rate in Nigeria. It was therefore recommended that relevant stakeholders should assist out-of-school children to return to school. Also, children who are not interested in schooling should be aided to learn one trade or the other.
Personality factors and emotional Intelligence as predictors of frontline hotel employees’ emotional labour
(Global Advanced Research Journals, 2012-10) Ehigie, B. O.; Oguntuase, R. O.; Ibode, F. O.; Ehigie, R. I.
The paper examined the influence of emotional intelligence and the big-five personality attributes on the performance of emotional labour of hotel frontline employees. A correlation design was adopted. Emotional labour was viewed as both multidimensional (deep acting and surface acting) and one-dimensional. A total of 145 frontline hotel workers, randomly selected from ten hotels within Ibadan, Nigeria, participated in the study. It was found out that hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that extraversion, neuroticism, and conscientiousness negatively predicted deep acting, extraversion positively predicted surface acting, while extraversion and neuroticism negatively predicted overall emotional labour. Emotional intelligence predicted deep acting and overall emotional labour. The research limitation was the fact that the study did not cover all possible personality attributes; also the dispositions needed for efficiency in other units of a hotel need to be investigated. This implies that hotel management should consider for employment into hotel frontline positions, applicants who have requisite dispositions on extraversion, neuroticism, and conscientiousness, and emotional intelligence. In addition, the training of frontline hotel workers should be tailored towards the behavioural dimensions of these personnel attributes. The study ventured into an uncommon area of human capital management in the hotel setting in Nigeria.
Psycho-socio factors as correlates of examination malpractices among candidates in public examinations in Benue state
(2013) Ibode, F. O.; Pila, N.
The certificates obtained from public examining bodies West African Examination (WAEC) and National Examination Council (NECO) have important roles to play in Nigerian education sector. However, examination malpractice among candidates in public examinations (WAEC/NECO) is one of the serious impediments to quality of education in Nigeria because it affects the value and integrity of certificates issued by these public examining bodies. Federal Government of Nigeria and other stakeholders have made several attempts to curb this menace, but it continues to increase. The proliferation of this phenomenon seems to relate to psychological factors (anxiety and self concept) and social factors (emphasis on certificates, University admission policies and students' attitudes towards studies). This study is therefore set to find out the relationship between psycho-socio factors and examination malpractices among candidates in public examinations in Benue State. The study is a survey research. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used in selecting Six-hundred (600) SS3 respondents from twelve (12) secondary schools in Benue State. Students' Examination Malpractice Questionnaire (SEMQ) was developed by the researcher to elicit data. Correlation (spearson correlation) was used at 0.05 alpha level to answer the research questions. The findings revealed that examination malpractices among candidates in public examinations are related to psychological factors [r = .160, p < 0.05) societal values (r = .169, p < 0.05) and students’ attitudes towards studies (r = .068, p < 0.05). Therefore, it is recommended that Government should ensure mastery learning, employers of labour should emphasize practical skills against emphasis on certificates, and candidates should be educated on how to balance their social life with academic activities.
The role of curriculum evaluation in quality education in Nigeria
(2011) Ibode, F. O.
The paper dwelt on the role of Curriculum Evaluation in quality education in Nigeria. The quality of education in Nigeria has come under serious criticism in recent years. The paper revealed that credence has been lent more to these criticisms because of the poor performance of students noticed in public examinations like the West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE) and the National Examination Council (NECO). As a result of these fall out, the effectiveness of public secondary school in Nigeria has become an issue of debate. The paper stated that, since curriculum evaluation is the act of gauging the value and effectiveness of any aspect of educational activities, it then becomes imperative to look at certain aspects of the Secondary School System in Nigeria, especially the teaching learning process. The paper goes further to explain how curriculum evaluation may come handy in solving some of the problems facing secondary school education in Nigeria, such as, issues bothering on instructional methods, instructional materials, class size, students' assessment and evaluation and other sundry issues affecting quality education in Nigeria. The paper concluded that mass failure in public examination can be drastically reduced in Nigeria if curriculum evaluation is allowed to thrive within the educational system in the country.
Self-efficacy, mathematics and english language proficiency as correlates of students’ achievement in economics
(Ibadan University Press, Ibadan, 2017) Ibode, F. O.; Ekundayo, K. F.