Eseohe Glory Okoedion, U. C. Okolie, Idongesit David Udom
{"title":"PERCEIVED FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES","authors":"Eseohe Glory Okoedion, U. C. Okolie, Idongesit David Udom","doi":"10.13128/SSF-10814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13128/SSF-10814","url":null,"abstract":"The academic performance of students has been subject of discourse among social scientists from a wide range of disciplines in the last two decades. But unfortunately, very insufficient number of studies in this area has been conducted in Nigeria. This study was undertaken to fill this obvious research gap. Possible factors affecting students’ academic performance in Nigerian universities were examined in this study. They were grouped into student related factors, lecturer related factors, institutional related factors and home related factors. A descriptive method was adopted and data was collected via a survey of 400 respondents selected by means of stratified random sampling technique to ensure a balanced representation of age and gender. Data collected were analyzed using percentages, means, t-test and multiple regression analysis with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21. The findings indicated that the major factors affecting students’ academic performance in Nigerian universities are student, lecturer and institutional related factors. The study also revealed a significant joint contribution of student, lecturer, institutional and home related factors on poor academic performance of students in Nigerian universities. Requisite conclusion and recommendations were provided in the light of the empirical findings.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116394172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"STUDENTS' INVOLVEMENT IN FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL","authors":"Carmen Maria Țîru","doi":"10.24250/JPE/SI/2019/CMT","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/SI/2019/CMT","url":null,"abstract":"At any level of the educational process the common efforts of the teacher and students are reflected on the obtained and evaluated students’ results. What is the students’ involvement and decision in setting up the assessment criteria and instruments to asses these results at university level? How will students’ results be affected by the possibility to choose some of these instruments and the number of participations in the formative examination? How will the formative assessment and the portfolio sustain personal and group progress? These are important questions for which this research will identify some possible analyses and conclusions. The research sample consisted in 71 second year students who were investigated during the first semester of 2018-2019 university year. Following the proposed assessment modalities and criteria, other teachers at university level could optimise the teaching process and the learning performance of their students.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133006450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COMMUNICATION AND CREATIVITY FOR PRESCHOOLERS","authors":"D. Dughi, Simona Ioja","doi":"10.24250/JPE/SI/2019/DD/SI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/SI/2019/DD/SI","url":null,"abstract":"The study we made has the purpose to reveal the way some of the techniques, methods and stimulation principles of creative features can be used on children. The study group contains children from the “big group”. They have been involved in creative exercises like “Storytelling cubes”, “Comic books”, “Thinking hats” and other exercises based on synectic and brainstorming principles. The recorded results, after the game like or creative exercise evaluations, have revealed qualitatively changes of creative features like fluidity and flexibility.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130505770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION OF LITERACY STRATEGIES APPLIED IN EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES","authors":"Nicoleta Meseșan","doi":"10.24250/JPE/SI/2019/NM","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/SI/2019/NM","url":null,"abstract":"The article highlights the perspective of high-school teachers working in a pedagogical profile regarding the application of literacy strategies in various disciplines and the importance of such strategies in the development of functional literacy in students. The method used for this study has been investigation, and the tool used to collect information has been the survey. The data has been analyzed using SPSS software, version 22.0. The elements examined through pilot study returned a reliability rate in between 0.62 and 0.822. Results have shown that teachers can partially define literacy, but they do not frequently apply, in their teaching activity, strategies that would develop students’ abilities. This study is paramount in the context of the PISA exams taken by students in Romania, which revealed the scale of functional illiteracy in pupils. Furthermore, the relevance of the study resides in the analysis of teachers’ perception of literacy strategies from the perspective of forming students as functional literate adults, but also as future teachers for primary school.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132039417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MUSICAL CONTENT INSPIRED BY NATIONAL CREATIVITY OF ETHNIC COMMUNITIES OF VOJVODINA – MODELS OF MUSIC ABILITY DEVELOPMENT AT THE PRESCHOOL AGE","authors":"Eudjen Cinc","doi":"10.24250/JPE/SI/2019/EC","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/SI/2019/EC","url":null,"abstract":"It is undeniable that tradition and culture form a nation’s “mirror of the soul”. In accordance with this the cultural heritage of a country with all its elements is the reflection of the existence of every nation (Stolic, 2017:182). It is clear to everyone that the young are the successors and carriers of the nation’s cultural identity, but it is also well known that children cannot often come across and in that way learn about the cultural heritage of their country. The way of dressing and life is different today and traditional songs and games are rarely listened to and performed (Stolic, 2017:182). Therefore, it is necessary to periodically influence and enrich their lives with traditional national songs and games. National songs and games with singing can be present in the children’s lives from their birth. Through an adequate selection and usage the children will in an unobtrusive way become familiar with their national heritage through song and play (Stolic, 2017). The topics of national song and games can be diverse, but humorous and love texts are the most common. Also common are the texts which describe work in the fields or the process of other types of work.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"80 s1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120841919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TEACHERS’ OPINIONS REGARDING TEACHING AN INTEGRATED OPTIONAL DISCIPLINE (IOD) IN ROMANIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS","authors":"Alina Ioana, M. Goga","doi":"10.24250/JPE/SI/2019/AIC/MG","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/SI/2019/AIC/MG","url":null,"abstract":"Curriculum integration is a necessity. In everyday life, problem solving requires knowledge, diverse skills that cannot be acquired by studying only individual disciplines, with no connections between them. This study explores the views of the teachers in the secondary schools, in Romania, on teaching an integrated optional discipline. We have designed and carried out a mixed research – quantitative and qualitative, based on several objectives focused on teachers’ opinions to teach an IOD, the required competencies to teach an IOD, their perceived barrieres in teaching an IOD and possible solutions to overcome those barriers. We did our research in 18secondary schools from Bucharest city and five counties, on a sample of 153 teachers. The results of the research show that only few teachers teach IOD in Romania. In order to teach an IOD, they need to have social skills and creativity besides knowlege from different areas. Theachers state that there is a lack of curricular resources and time to prepare the lessons. Also, they have difficulties in making connections between the knowlege from different areas. Teachers consider that in order to solve these problems, they need to help each other, to study more and suggest that schools must support them with diverse curricular materials.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122964738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EDUCATION IN THE MAN AND SOCIETY CURRICULAR AREA","authors":"G. Kelemen","doi":"10.24250/JPE/SI/2019/GK","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/SI/2019/GK","url":null,"abstract":"This articleaims to highlight the importance of activities inscribed within the Man and Society curricular area, by way of showing the implications played in preparing kindergarten students for later school and especially for their social life. We shall prove that practical activities contribute to the multifaceted development of preschool children’s personality.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"29 6 Suppl 19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131871534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"POSITIVE ATTITUDE BUILDOUT AT SECOND GRADERS THROUGH OUTDOOR EDUCATION ACTIVITIES","authors":"Henrietta Torkos, A. Roman","doi":"10.24250/JPE/SI/2019/HT/AFR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/SI/2019/HT/AFR","url":null,"abstract":"Outdoor education has come to the point where, besides being a modern teachinglearning method, it can easily develop certain competencies if it is done according to strategical rules. Modern education is based on the development of competencies and the curriculum motivates the use of activities that can build these in children of any age. One of the most important parts of a competency is the attitude of pupils towards oneself, others and learning. This study, presents the theoretical base of attitudes as parts of competencies and how pupils can achieve them through formal education. It also presents a research amongst a group of second graders from Arad County based on outdoor learning activities and the multiple ways in which these can develop attitudes in the research group. We are going to present the instruments and the results, which preliminarily show that involving kids in outdoor learning activities can successfully develop positive attitudes towards self, society, the micro group and towards learning.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132487489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Primary school education","authors":"Laura Szabo Bejenar","doi":"10.1038/scientificamerican06181870-400b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican06181870-400b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"500 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124452716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"CHILD SOCIAL PROTECTION\" RECODED.","authors":"C. Dragoi","doi":"10.24250/JPE/2/2017/CD","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24250/JPE/2/2017/CD","url":null,"abstract":"The report presents some challenging issues regarding the drop-out of social care of institutionalised children leaving the residential (specialised institutions) or non-residential (assisted loggings for instance) care system. The situation and the major difficulties of the children, teenagers and youngsters having to leave the formal social care system were not sufficiently investigated, mostly because of the huge heterogeneity of the individual social trajectories, because of the diversity of cultural, political, financial and subjective factors operating simultaneously and of numerous social actors not always acting converging. The “traditional” social care (that assures for the beneficiaries a certain specific “safety”) finishes in some cases in the moment the young adult has to leave an institution and has to face the realities of the labour market. The assessments of the drop-outs (and sometimes also the official statistics) are only sporadic and with less relevance for an objective social cartography. The aim of the present study was to identify some of the most relevant risk factors and the most frequent scenarios associated with dropping out of contacts with community-based social care services and also to analyse some of the possible strategies in order to avoid the rapid deterioration of the status of the young people leaving the “safe formal care system”.","PeriodicalId":333593,"journal":{"name":"Journal Plus Education","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115006840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}