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    COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LECTURERS’ JOB MOTIVATION IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA
    (2025-06-01) SHEU, Muritala Adaramaja, AMUDA-KANNIKE Ahmed,TEMISAREN, Olawumi Esther & Salimon, Keji Sakiru
    The study examined a comparative analysis of lecturers’ job motivation in private and public Colleges of Education in Kwara State, Nigeria. It adopted a descriptive research design of a survey type. All the 814 lecturers in the nine private and three public Colleges of Education in the state constituted the population of the study. All the institutions were selected purposively. Proportionate sampling technique was used to select 233 lecturers out of the 598 in the state-owned Colleges of Education and 138 lecturers out of the 216 in the private Colleges of Education. The Comparative Analysis of Lecturers’ Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (CALJSQ) was used to elicit information from respondents. The instrument was validated, and its reliability test conducted via the use of Cronbach’s Alpha yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.84. A t-test was used to test the hypotheses. The findings revealed that there was a significant difference in the lecturers’ job motivation in private and public Colleges of Education in Kwara State, Nigeria. It was recommended that private Colleges of Education owners should seriously strive to take care of their lecturers to improve their job satisfaction, while the Kwara State government should not relent in taking care of its lecturers to make them more satisfied with the job.
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    Analyzing Student Retention Trends in Public Schools Across Kwara State, Nigeria
    (EDUCARE Journal of Primary Education, 2025-06-25) Afeez Adeshina Shittu , Muritala Adaramaja Sheu , Yusuf Abubakar Faruk
    This study investigated the assessment of students’ retention rate in public junior secondary schools in Kwara State, Nigeria. The study specifically sought to examine the retention rate of the public junior secondary school students in Kwara State from 2013/14 to 2019/2020 based on gender, and investigate the retention rate of the public junior secondary school students in Kwara State from 2013/14 to 2019/2020 based on location. Two research questions were raised and answered to guide this study, while two hypotheses were formulated and tested at the 0.05 significance level. The study was a descriptive survey that adopted the correlational research design. The target population comprised all 230 public junior secondary schools in the 6 LGA selected from the three senatorial districts in Kwara State. The instrument for this study was the Students’ Flow Checklist (SFC). The data collected were analysed using the formula, standard progression method, rate method, and t-test. The findings revealed a significant difference in the retention rates of male and female students in Ilorin West and Asa LGA in public junior secondary schools in Kwara State. There was a considerable difference in the retention rates of students in Ilorin West LGA (Urban) and Asa LGA (Rural) in public junior secondary schools in Kwara State. It is recommended that retention rates in Kwara State’s public junior secondary schools be maintained by providing more classrooms, utilizing available resources, and ensuring effective teaching to achieve educational goals for all students.
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    Principals’ Budget Management Practices: A Predictor of Public Junior Secondary School Performance in Kwara State, Nigeria
    (Attadrib: Jurnal Pendidikan Guru Madrasah Ibtidaiyah,, 2025-04-30) Afeez Adeshina Shittu, Muritala Adaramaja Sheu , Adeseko Sunday Olaifa , Yusuf Abubakar Faruk , Monsurat Iyabo Alao
    Effective and efficient school budgets determine the extent of attaining school objectives. This study investigated principals' budget management practices: a predictor of public junior secondary school performance in Kwara State, Nigeria. The objectives of this study were to examine the level of principals' budget management practices in Kwara State, find out the level of public junior secondary school performance in Kwara State, Nigeria, establish the relationship between principals' budget planning and public junior secondary school performance in Kwara State; investigate the relationship between principals' budget controlling and public junior secondary school performance in Kwara State and examine the relationship between principals' budget monitoring and public junior secondary school performance in Kwara State. The study adopted a descriptive survey of correlational type. One hundred and ninety respondents were used for the study. Principals' Budget Management Practices and Public Junior Secondary School Performance Questionnaire (PBMPPJSSPQ) were used for data collection. Two research questions were raised and answered to guide the study's conduct using descriptive statistics of frequency and percentages. Four research hypotheses were formulated and tested using inferential Pearson product-moment correlation statistics at a 0.05 significance level. Findings showed that principals' budget management practices in budget planning, budgeting monitoring, and controlling would tremendously enhance and improve public junior secondary school performance in school effectiveness, discipline, sports and recreation and students' academic achievement. It was recommended that the Kwara State government involve school principals and teachers in the budget management practices, planning, and implementation. This will enable the school staff and heads to understand the educational budget allocation and ensure funds are spent judiciously
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    Assessment of Principals’ Administrative Effectiveness in Public Secondary Schools in Ilorin West Local Government Area, Kwara State, Nigeria
    (African Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Technology , University of Benin, 2023) Kamaldeen Olohundare Sulyman, Sheu Muritala Adaramaja, Fatimoh Musa Aloba, Nasiru Olawale Mudasiru, FEMI Johnson Adedokun
    The study assessed principals’ administrative effectiveness in public secondary schools in Ilorin West Local Government Area, Kwara State, Nigeria. It adopted the descriptive research design of correlation type. Two thousand one hundred and sixty-five teachers in all the 44 schools in the area formed the study population. Twenty-two schools were randomly selected while 20 teachers were also randomly selected from each of the sampled schools, to make a sample of 240. The measures of principals’ administrative effectiveness are discipline, supervision of instruction and school plant maintenance. The “Principals’ Administrative Effectiveness Questionnaire” was used to gather information from the respondents. The instrument was validated by experts and with the use of Cronbach’s Alpha, it found reliability coefficient of 0.79. Mean and Standard Deviation were used to answer the research questions. The findings of the study revealed among other things, that the level of principals’ administrative effectiveness was average. The study concluded that public secondary school principals should intensify efforts in carrying out supervision of instruction, ensuring school discipline and maintaining school plant in order to boost their administrative effectiveness
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    Nexus Between Teachers Job Performance and Public Secondary Schools Effectiveness in North-Central Nigeria
    (Rima International Journal of Education, Sokoto State University, 2025-03-01) Muritala Adaramaja Sheu, Abubakar Abiola Yusuf, & Aminat Susade Ahmed
    the nexus between teachers' job performance and public secondary schools’ effectiveness in North-central Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive research design of correlational type. The population for this study comprised 1, 836 principals and 29,210 teachers in all public secondary schools in North-central, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 859 respondents, out of which 99 were principals and 760 were teachers. A validated research instrument tagged “Teachers” Job Performance and School Effectiveness Questionnaire (TJPSEQ) adapted from the works of Nelms (2005) and Sulyman (2021) were used for data collection in this study. Reliability coefficients of 0.68 and 0.75 were realised for the teachers’ job performance and school effectiveness questionnaire respectively, using Cronbach Alpha. Descriptive statistics of Mean, Standard Deviation, Minimum, Maximum, and Range were used to answer the research question, while Pearson Product-Moment Correlation statistics was used to test the research hypotheses formulated at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that the level of teachers’ job performance (55.22) and public secondary schools’ effectiveness (46.74) in North-central Nigeria were moderate respectively, more so, there was a significant relationship between teachers' jobperformance and public secondary schools’ effectiveness in North-central Nigeria (r = .911; df = 826; P < 0.05). The study concluded that there was a nexus between teachers' job performance and public secondary schools’ effectiveness in North-central Nigeria. The study recommended among others, that the government should not relent in its efforts in providing enabling environments that would enhance job performance and school effectiveness.