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Abstract The purpose of this research study is to examine the influence of Social Media and Academic Performance Of students in Tamale Technical University. Three Research questions and three Research hypotheses guided the study. To achieve this, the descriptive survey research design was adopted. The study focused on Tamale Technical hence, population consists of all the 24,661 full-time undergraduate students. The simple random sampling technique was used to select a ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study In an educational system, a large amount of data is kept. This data may be students’ data, alumni data, teachers’ data, non-teaching staff data, resource data, and so on. Educational data mining is used in discovering the patterns in these data for decision-making(EdinOsmanbegovic, 2012). Educational data mining can answer a lot of questions from the patterns obtained from student data, questions such ...

Abstract This study examined covid-19 misinformation and students’ academic performance in selected secondary school students in Ijebu-North Local Government Area of Ogun State. If there is a lesson that COVID-19 has taught stakeholders about public health misinformation in Nigeria and probably elsewhere, it is that a sentiment-laden blend of distrust and religion, and a number of traditional beliefs could get people who are expected to know better, to jettison commonsense, ...

Abstract Many colleges worldwide suspended classroom teaching due to the novel coronavirus pandemic and switched to online teaching. The study examine the effect of Covid-19 on the academic performance of student in English language with emphasis on Angel Crown international school. The population of the study consist of three hundred (300) teachers and student which the researcher use a simple random sampling technique in ascertaining the sample size. A structured ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Personality is something everybody knows that it exists, but nobody knows that what it is (Schneewind and Ruppert, 1998). It is certainly true that it is difficult to put human personality which Goethe (1970) called the greatest happiness for children of this earth into scientific terms.Personality determines a set of important characteristics and that how people interact with others. Human personality is ...

ABSTRACT This work focused on quality control and students academic performance in secondary school. The purpose was to find out the relationship between quality control and students’ academic performance. Correlational survey design was adopted to guide the study. Three research questions and two null hypotheses which was test at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. The population of the study which comprised 30 principals and 1772 teachers was 1802. ...

ABSTRACT Prior to independence in Nigeria, individuals, corporate bodies, religious group and government jointly and severally had input in the area of education. But with the dawn of military ascendancy and the corridors of power take-over of mission school was unleashed on the educational sector. Several years have gone by and we are trying to pick-up our broken pieces.This work is an attempt to look into effects of government return ...

Abstract:  This study titled “The Perception of the relationship between teachers‟ quality and students‟ academic performance in Hausa language of senior secondary schools in Kano metropolis”. The study sought to: determine the relationship between teachers qualification/ certification and students academic performance. Establish the relationship between teachers years of teaching experience and students academic performance. Establish the relationship between teachers knowledge of subject matter and student academic performance. Examine how teachers‟ teaching methods ...

ABSTRACT This study explored the influence of personality traits on students’ academic performance in secondary schools in Lagos State. The study adopted descriptive research design. Questionnaires was the major tool for data collection and data collected were analyzed using the statistical tools of frequency counts, simple percentage for the descriptive analysis while inferential statistics of Chi-Square (X2) was used to test all the stated hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance with the ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1       Background to the Study The purpose of education is to equip the individuals to reshape their society and eliminate inequality. In particular, secondary school education is an important sector in national and individual development. It plays a vital role in creating a country’s human resource base at a level higher than primary education (Boit, Njoki and Chang’ach, 2012). Provision of quality secondary education is therefore important in ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1      Background of the study Teacher evaluation is a function of human decision-making resulting from a value judgment about how good or weak a particular work performance is using information that compares the actual work performance with predetermined performance standards (Grobler, 2013). Appraisal comes from the work “praise” (to express warm approbation) in an effort to make teacher evaluation more palatable. Common synonyms for evaluation are assessment and ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   Background to the Study The problem of sexual abuse has received the attention of scholars from a variety of life domains, because the scourge seems to be an issue of immorality that has no regard for individual status, religious affiliation, wealth, education, or development of countries across the globe (Gowen, 2001; Berdahl, 2007; Dobbin, 2009; Menon et al., 2011). The quest for modernity, which is a paradigm that ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1     Background to the Study It is widely accepted that education is one of the leading tools for promoting economic development as it covers some processes individuals go through to help them develop and use their potentials. Furthermore, through education, individuals acquire knowledge, skills and attitude that are necessary for effective living. This is the reason why in all modern nations, investment in education of the youth is ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1  Background to the Study Children are often described both as the wealth and pride of a nation. The future of any nation therefore depends on the young ones who constitute the potential human resources needed for the continuity of the society. Thus, to achieve sustainable development of a society, the young population must not only be preserved but also disciplined. School indiscipline such as hooliganism and gangsterism ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1       Introduction School dropout in its simplest meaning is the untimely withdrawal from school. These students who withdraw from school prematurely end up no obtaining any certificate of graduation. The issue of school dropout is a global problem confronting the education industry round the world. Researchers like, Mohsin, Aslam and Bashir (2004); De Cos (2005); Bridgeland, Dilulio, and Morison (2006), and Oghuvbu (2008) have since buttressed this fact. ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   Background to the Study According to Adeyemi and Adu (2010), it is widely accepted that education is one of the leading tools for promoting economic development as it covers some processes individuals go through to help them develop and use their potentials. Furthermore, Okeke (2007) said that, through education, individuals acquire knowledge, skills and attitude that are necessary for effective living. In an attempt to have sound ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1    Background of the Study The home is an essential place in the upbringing of a child as the first environment within a family. The home, which is the traditional nuclear family, is the smallest unit and microcosm of the larger society. Therefore, the family is a universal organization and it is hard to imagine how society can function without the family (Anderson cited in Ekeke and Dorgu, 2014). ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Predicting student academic performance has long been an important research topic. Among the issues of education system, questions concerning admissions into academic institutions (secondary and tertiary level) remain important (Ting, 2008). The main objective of the admission system is to determine the candidates who would likely perform well after being accepted into the school. The quality of admitted students has a great ...

ABSTRACT Educational services refer to the services available for teachers to improve their quality and promote teacher effectiveness in the school system, while teacher quality is a degree of excellence especially as it relates to high level of competency and worth of teachers. Specifically, the study examined the extent to which provision and utilization of educational services relate to teacher quality and students’ academic performance. Correlational survey design was adopted ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Effect of home ‘video” on students academic performance entails a detail look at home video programmes which are not good for students at home, students get attracted to these programmes which make some impact in some of them which they exhibit at that tender age or later on in life. Although the mass media acts as a means of transmitting information and ...