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Ekaette, Samuel Okpon; Ekpenyong, John A.; Owan, Valentine Joseph – Pedagogical Research, 2019
The study investigated school characteristics and enrolment trend in upper basic schools in Akwa Ibom State Nigeria from 2008-2016. Two research questions were answered while two null hypotheses were also tested. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. Census technique was adopted in selecting all the 227 public upper basic schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Enrollment Trends, Junior High Schools
Inweregbuh, Onyemauche Christopher; Osakwe, Ifeoma Julie; Ugwuanyi, Chika Charity; Agugoesi, Oluchi Janehilda – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2020
The study was carried out to assess students' creative thinking ability in mathematical tasks at senior secondary school level in Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was six thousand three hundred and thirty (6330) Senior Secondary II (SS11) students in…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Creative Thinking, Ability, Mathematics Activities
Esomonu, Nkechi Patricia-Mary; Eleje, Lydia Ijeoma – World Journal of Education, 2020
This study aimed at investigating the effect of diagnostic testing on students' academic achievement in secondary school quantitative economics. In conducting the study, 3 research questions and 3 stated hypotheses were answered. The study is quasi-experimental employing 2x4 factorial pretest-posttest design. The sample consisted of 210 Senior…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Academic Achievement, Economics Education, Diagnostic Tests
Akhigbe, Jeremiah Nosakhare; Adeyemi, Adeola Eunice – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2020
One way of ensuring gender equality in science education is by mainstreaming gender components into the pedagogical delivery of science instruction. Thus, the researchers in this study designed a Gender Responsive Collaborative Learning Strategy (GR-CLS) based on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. The effectiveness of this…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Cooperative Learning, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes
Osokoya, Modupe M.; Nwazota, Chinwe C. – Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 2018
The study assessed effects of problem-based learning approach on senior secondary school students' practical skills in chemistry and the role of school type as a moderating variable. A pretest, posttest control group quasiexperimental setting with non-equivalent groups design was adopted. A total of 124 students (54 from coeducational and 70 from…
Descriptors: High School Students, Chemistry, Science Education, Problem Based Learning
Nwafor, Chika E.; Obodo, Abigail Chikaodinaka; Okafor, Gabriel – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study explored the effect of self-regulated learning approach on junior secondary school students' achievement in basic science. Quasi-experimental design was used for the study.Two co-educational schools were drawn for the study through simple random sampling technique. One school was assigned to the treatment group while the other was…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Science Achievement, Junior High School Students, Quasiexperimental Design
Ajaja, O. Patrick – International Education Studies, 2012
The major purpose of this study was to determine the pattern of dropout among secondary school students in Delta State. To guide this study, 7 research questions were asked and answered, 3 hypotheses stated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The design of study was ex post facto using the past school attendance registers as the major…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Secondary School Students, Hypothesis Testing
Nwalo, K. I. N.; Anasi, Stella N. I. – Health Education Journal, 2012
Objective: This study investigated access to and use of reproductive health information among in-school adolescent girls in Lagos State, Nigeria. Design: Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Setting: The study sample consisted of 1,800 girls randomly selected from 18 public senior secondary schools in Lagos State. Method:…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Surveys, Secondary School Students, Health Education

Lee, Valerie E.; Lockheed, Marlaine E. – Comparative Education Review, 1990
Among 1,012 Nigerian ninth graders in 40 schools, girls in single-sex schools had higher mathematics achievement and less stereotypic views of mathematics than girls in coed schools, whereas boys in single-sex schools were negatively affected compared to those in coed schools. Contains 46 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Coeducation, Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Mathematics Achievement

Mallam, Winifred A. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1993
Investigated impact of coeducational versus all-girls schooling and sex of teacher on attitudes toward mathematics. Data from a stratified random sampling (n=240) of female secondary students in Nigeria suggest that the best environment for females is in all-girls schools where mathematics is taught by female teachers. (DE)
Descriptors: Coeducation, Females, Foreign Countries, Heterogeneous Grouping
Ogunsola-Bandele, Mercy F. – 1999
This study examined the differences and similarities experienced by secondary school science teachers when teaching science within and outside their area of specialization in single sex and co-educational schools. Interviews were conducted and audio taped for six experienced science teachers on their qualification, classes/subjects taught and…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Base for Teaching