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A Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Campaign Posters of the Two Major Nigerian Political Parties
(Issues in Language and Literary Studies, 2022) Moshood Zakariyah
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NUMERACY ANXIETY AS A CORRELATE OF PUPILS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN ASA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KWARA STATE
(Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education, KWASU, 2024-05-15) Usman Tunde SAADU, Hafees Tosin SULYMAN & Abdulkadir Tunde AREMU
This study investigated numeracy anxiety as a correlate of pupils’ academic performance in Asa local Government, Kwara State. The study adopted correlational research design. The population for the study comprised2,711basic five pupils in both public and private basic schools. Krejcie and Morgan (1979) table was used to determine the total number of 335 basic five pupils in both public and private basic schools in Asa Local Government Area, Kwara State. Two instruments were used for the study “Numeracy Anxiety Scale” (NAS) and Numeracy Academic Performance Test (NAPT)were subjected to validity by the experts in Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education Kwara State University, Malete and a test-re-test reliability procedure was used to determine the reliability index of NAS (r=0.76).One research question was raised using descriptive statistic of percentage and mean and three research hypotheses were formulated using PPMC to test hypothesis one while t-test to test hypotheses two and three at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that numeracy anxiety had a significant relationship on pupils’ academic performance (r= .161; p<0.05). However, gender (t = 6.637; p > 0.05) and school type (t = 2.103; p > 0.05) did not have significant difference in pupils’ numeracy anxiety in Asa local Government. The study concluded that numeracy anxiety determined pupils’ academic performance. Also, gender and school type had no influence on pupils’ numeracy anxiety. It was recommended that teachers should provide support for pupils who experience numeracy anxiety through one-on-one support, in order to build their confidence and skills in handling numeracy and to improve their academic performance.
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INVESTIGATING ROLES OF QUALITY EDUCATION IN MITIGATING ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AMONG YOUTHS IN KWARA STATE
(Deapartment of Early Childhood and Primary Education, KWASU, 2024-05-15) Dr. Ibrahim Ali Lafiagi, Dr. Abdullahi Ibrahim Salah-Deen,
Immoralities are in commonplace in the world, and Nigeria is no exception and education is only an effective healing to them. This paper investigates the roles of quality education on reducing antisocial behaviors in Kwara State, Nigeria. The researchers purposively sampled 800 respondents who were selected among families residing in five towns of Agbede polygate, Akewushola, Boyi, Lajolo, and Malete in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State. The study adopted survey research design. The research instrument used for the study was adapted and modified from prior study of Wall Myers, Sellbom and Goodwin (2013) measuring juveniles and college students’ delinquencies and antisocial conducts respectively. The adapted and modified survey questionnaire named Educational Intervention to Antisocial Behaviors (EITAB) used for this study, contains 10-item self-report inventory to reliably assess educational interventions in combating antisocial behaviors among youths in the study areas. The analysis of this study was in two ways namely; the descriptive and Inferential statistics of the Linear Regression Analysis run with the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 21 for windows by Newest. The psychometric property of the research instrument showed the Cronbach Alpha reliability of 0.76. One research question and one hypothesis were formulated for the study. The findings of the study revealed that, quality education is a lasting solution to curbing anti-social behavior according to the majority of the respondents. Additionally, the findings of the study showed that, quality education significantly reduces social vices 74% as revealed by the adjusted R Square in our environments (F=.652, p=.002). However, educational strategies such as the implementation of life-skills programmes, access to educational resources and provision of positive messages in the media could potentially reduce the prevalence of social vices in Nigeria. The paper concludes y considering the implications for further research and for practitioners working to alleviate anti-social behaviors in Nigeria. The study ecommended among other things, excellent implementation of education policies that touch on societal development free of anti-social behaviors. In addition, there should be the provision of quality education to all Nigerians irrespective of religion, tribes, gender, region and languages, and particularly, youths’ inclusion in education. Quality education is to be given priority by the state governments in Nigeria not only to Kwara State in order to avoid development of social vices at all levels and education systems are to be given good attention in upholding Universal Basic Education System funded by the Federal government of Nigeria.
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SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: QUALITY OF ITS SERVICE DELIVERY FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN ONDO STATE PRIMARY
(Department of Early Childhood and Primary education, KWASU, 2024-05-15) Oluwaseun Temitope, LAWAL PhD
Special Needs Education in Nigeria takes place majorly in formal school environment like other regular schools. This implies that the quality of its service delivery must not be different from regular education in the country. This study investigated the quality of service delivery provided for Children with Disabilities in Ondo State Nigeria. It adopted survey research design and the population consisted of all the children in the four public primary schools providing education for children with disabilities in the state. The respondents for the study comprised 4 Head Teachers and 8 Assistant Head Teachers in the schools. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the respondents. An instrument named Quality of Education Service Delivery for Children with Disabilities Checklist (QESDCDC) and interview was used. Data were analysed using frequencies, percentages and content analysis. The result showed that there was low provision of schools for CwDs, the children were not going through screening assessment before placing them in classes, the children classrooms were overcrowded and the curriculum available was inappropriate. The study concluded that the quality of education service delivery provided for CwDs in Ondo state needs urgent improvement and attention by the State and Local Government.
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Graphene@Ni0.5Co0.5Fe2O4 hybrid framework with enhanced interfacial polarization for electromagnetic wave absorption
(2021-04-14) Fatai Adisa Wahaab; Wasiu Yahya; Lawal Lanre Adebayo; Issa Kazeem; Abdulganiyu Abdulraheem; Bilal Alqasem; Jemilat Yetunde Yusuf; Abibat Asabi Adekoya; Chai Mui Nyuk
Fabrication of smart materials for electromagnetic (EM) wave absorption has been propounded as effi- cient EM interference and pollution mitigation method. Herein, a porous lightweight graphe- ne@Ni 0.5 Co 0.5 Fe 2 O 4 composite was prepared via a coprecipitation method. The results show that Ni 0.5 Co 0.5 Fe 2 O 4 nanoparticles are homogeneously dispersed and anchored on the graphene flakes. Investigation of the EM waves absorption properties of the material at different filling in paraffin reveals that at 15 wt% loading, the composite absorbs large percent of the EM waves at minimal thickness. The composite attains optimum reflection loss peak 44.7 dB at 17.45 GHz, with 1.5 mm thickness. This enhanced EM wave absorption performance (at lesser thickness than Ni 0.5 Co 0.5 Fe 2 O 4 in literature) could be ascribed to interfacial polarization and a good impedance match arising from unique pore configu- ration of the dielectric (graphene) and magnetic (Ni 0.5 Co 0.5 Fe 2 O 4 ) composite. These results indicate that the lightweight G@Ni 0.5 Co 0.5 Fe 2 O 4 composites with strong absorption at reduced thickness is an efficient absorber for high-frequency EM wave attenuation.