by Admin | Aug 29, 2025
This study investigated the Impact of Adaptive Learning on Senior Secondary II Chemistry Students’ Achievement and Retention in Jos East Local Government Area of Plateau State, Nigeria. The study used Lev Vygotsky’s Constructivist Theory (1978) as theoretical framework. The study was guided by four specific objectives. Corresponding research questions and hypotheses were formulated to address these objectives. The study used quasi-experimental research design. The total population of the study comprised 1,200 SS2 Chemistry students drawn from 15 public secondary schools in Jos East. A sample size of 120 students was purposively selected from two comparable public schools—Experimental School, which received the adaptive learning intervention, and Control School, which continued with the lecture method. Pre-test, post-test, and retention test instruments were used to collect quantitative data on student performance. The mean score was used to answer the research questions while the ANCOVA was employed to test the hypotheses. The findings revealed that students taught using adaptive learning strategies significantly outperformed those taught using the traditional lecture method in both academic achievement and knowledge retention. Furthermore, no significant gender differences were observed in the achievement scores of students exposed to adaptive learning, indicating its effectiveness across both male and female students. Also, the study found meaningful differences in performance between the two schools, highlighting the role of instructional methods in shaping learning outcomes. In conclusion, this study provides evidence for the integration of adaptive learning techniques into the secondary school chemistry curriculum. It recommends policy support for digital learning innovations and teacher training to enhance adaptive instructional delivery.
by Admin | Aug 29, 2025
Social Entrepreneurship which is the fusion of social impact and entrepreneurial innovation, has emerged as a pivotal strategy in Nigeria to address pressing social challenges. This approach leveraged business models to create sustainable solutions that benefit communities while remaining financially viable. This paper investigated the role expected of social entrepreneurship as measures for addressing social and economic challenges in enhancing socioeconomic transformation and sustainable development in Nigeria. Sociopreneurship thrives in an enabling environment where favourable policies, access to resources, and collaborative networks foster innovation and sustainable social impact. The findings showed that there is a rising number of young Nigerians engaging in social entrepreneurship ventures, particularly in agriculture, waste recycling, fintech, education, and health. It was concluded that, unless there were deliberate attempts by government to creating an enabling environment for smooth and successful engagements and collaborations with the social entrepreneurs to meeting both rural and urban socioeconomic needs; all efforts and governmental strides to ensuring speedy transformation and sustainable development would remain slow and unattainable.
by Admin | Aug 29, 2025
The study investigated mentoring as a correlate of academic growth in colleges of education in south-south, Nigeria, two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study which adopted correlation design. The population, 10038 staffers. The sample comprised 120 staffers. Multistage sampling procedure was adopted. Data were gathered using Staffers Mentoring Questioning (SMQ)’ and Academic Growth Scale (AGS) their reliability indices were 0.71, and 0.79 obtained using Cronbach Alpha method. Pearson moment correlation was used to answer the research questions while Regression ANOVA was used to test the hypotheses at .05 level of significant The study’s results, among other things, demonstrated that staffers academic growth in colleges of education is determined by role playing mentoring (31.4%), found significant (p>0.05) determinant of staffers academic growth, it also showed that staffers academic growth is correlated between error prevention during mentoring and academic growth (21.0%), found to be significantly correlated between error prevention in mentoring and staffers mentoring and academic growth. It was recommended that colleges of Education in South-South, Nigeria should institutionalized mentoring, so that inexperienced academics could avoid Pitfall in the discharge of their academic responsibilities. This study advises that further research on this topic should be carried out in other geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Mentoring should be practiced by Colleges of Education in South-South, Nigeria in particular and all other colleges of Education in Nigeria.
by Admin | Aug 16, 2025
This paper analyses key theoretical and empirical debates that seek to clarify the scope to which inflation and unemployment can be treated as monetary phenomena. They continue to be of central concern in macroeconomic discourse, as scholars argued what induces these two important complications for the economy, given that monetary explanations have always been common and remain to be of great consideration to the economic policy makers. This study integrates the empirical evidence which accompanies the various strands of economic thought, as well as those traditionally considered classic and monetarist, also, with New Keynesian and Rational Expectations models, in order to explain the ways monetary impacts, interact with the real economy. It is true that monetary factors elucidate inflation and have a significant, often dominant role, specifically in the long run. Their relation with unemployment, though, is more intricate, as theory and evidence propose a short run trade-off but limited long run effect, mostly under rational expectations. The results reinforce the central bank’s dominating actions to attain price stability, nevertheless also demonstrate the severe bounds of what can be done with monetary policy to reduce unemployment and highlight the natural rate of unemployment feature.
by Admin | Aug 16, 2025
This study was carried out to examine effects of concept mapping on senior secondary students’ achievement in argumentative composition in Pankshin Local Government Area, Plateau State, Nigeria. The study utilized the quasi-experimental research design. The population of the study consisted of all the SS II students in Pankshin Local Government Area. A sample of 62 SSII students was selected and assigned to the experimental (concept mapping) and control (conventional) groups using purposive sampling technique. Four research questions and four corresponding null hypotheses guided the study. Data were collected using a test tagged Composition Writing Achievement Test (CWAT), while English Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing aided the treatment. Data collected were analysed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and t-test to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings indicate that students exposed to concept mapping achieved higher in generating ideas, constructing sentences, paragraphing, and punctuation. The study concludes that concept mapping has positive effects on students’ achievement in composition writing and recommends incorporating concept mapping in teaching techniques, providing resources and support to teachers, and conducting regular assessments to evaluate effectiveness. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among other things that teachers of English should model concept mapping for writing to students.
