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Ugwu, Eucharia Okwudilichukwu – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2019
The study investigated the effect of two cooperative learning strategies (the student teams-achievement divisions and think-pair-share methods) on students' interest in reading comprehension. Seventy-eight senior secondary II students were randomly selected from three schools in Vandeikya Local Government Area, Benue State, Nigeria. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Reading Comprehension
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Agbo, Felicia Onyemowo; Isa, Ali A. Muluku – Science Education International, 2017
This paper examined scientific skills and concept learning by rural women for personal and national development. The research design employed was a quasi-experimental, one-group pre-test and post-test design. A non-formal science program package to enhance and empower the rural women's knowledge and skills in their daily activities (nutrition,…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Literacy, Science Process Skills
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Banus, Abdullahi Audu; Dauda, Bala – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study assessed the relative effectiveness of understanding the problem statement on students' mathematical behaviours in Borno State Secondary Schools. The study was guided by an objective: to determine the Understanding the problem statement on student's performance in senior secondary school and a null hypothesis: there was no effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Quasiexperimental Design, Mathematics Tests
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Yahaya, Jamil Mikhail; Nurulazam, Ahmad; Karpudewan, Mageswary – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
A socioscientific issues integrated instruction was used in the study to resolve college students attitude towards sexually-themed science content. Some 200 college students participated in the study as experimental and control groups. The former consisting of 98 students from one college was taught the content using the socioscientific issues…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Sexuality, Course Content
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Ofoha, Dorothy; Saidu, Rosemary – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2014
Despite the evidence pointing to its detrimental child outcomes, physical punishment remains one of the most commonly used techniques to discipline children in many Nigerian homes. Research has revealed that a majority of Nigerian parents are not aware of the negative consequences. They are also not aware of nonaversive ways to discipline…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Education, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
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Yusuf, Hanna Onyi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
This study investigated the impact of using joint productive activity on the performance of second language learners in reading comprehension at the basic education level in Nigeria. A sample of forty (40) Junior Secondary II students from Kaduna North and South were used for the study. The study was quasi experimental. Government Junior Secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Quasiexperimental Design
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Gambari, A. I.; Falode, C. O.; Adegbenro, D. A. – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
This study investigated the effectiveness of computer animation and geometry instructional model on mathematics achievement and retention on Junior Secondary School Students in Minna, Nigeria. It also examined the influence of gender on students' achievement and retention. The research was a pre-test post-test experimental and control group…
Descriptors: Animation, Geometry, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology