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Capital Market Volatility and Real Sector Expansion in Nigeria 尼日利亚资本市场波动和实体部门扩张

Journal of progressive research in social sciences Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i2.245

A. Iriabije, U. Effiong, N. Inyang

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Teachers’ Attitude and Metacognitive Awareness as Determinants of their Perceived Professional Competence in Social Studies 教师态度与元认知意识对社会研究专业能力的影响

Journal of progressive research in social sciences Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i2.239

Emmanuel Edoja Achor, Alhassan A Yusufu, E. Joseph

{"title":"Teachers’ Attitude and Metacognitive Awareness as Determinants of their Perceived Professional Competence in Social Studies","authors":"Emmanuel Edoja Achor, Alhassan A Yusufu, E. Joseph","doi":"10.53935/26415305.v5i2.239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53935/26415305.v5i2.239","url":null,"abstract":"The study was an investigation of teachers’ attitude and metacognitive awareness as determinants of their Perceived Professional Competence in Social Studies among post primary schools in Kogi, Nigeria. The study adopted correlational survey research design. The population comprised 3,957 Upper Basic Social Studies teachers from 1937 Universal Basic Education schools in Kogi East for 2019/2020 academic session with a sample of 980. The three instruments used are Social Studies Teachers’ Competency Scale (SSTCS), Social Studies Teachers’ Attitudinal Disposition (SSTAD) and Teachers’ Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (TMAI) with reliability coefficients of 0.88, 0.76 and 0.75 respectively. From the analysis it was found that teachers’ attitude towards Social Studies F(1,469) = 1.158; p = 0.000 < 0.05 and teachers’ metacognitive awareness F(1,469) = 15.638; p = 0.000 < 0.05 have significant contributions to their Perceived Professional Competence in public secondary schools. It was also found that teachers’ attitude towards Social Studies F(1,507) = 0.920; p = 0.038 < 0.05 and metacognitive awareness F(1,507) = 1.487; p = 0.023 < 0.05 had significant contributions to their Perceived Professional Competence in private secondary schools. Social Studies teachers’ metacognitive awareness and attitude towards Social Studies jointly also contributed significantly to their Perceived Professional Competence in public secondary schools F(2,468) = 8.234; p = 0.000 < 0.05 as well as in private secondary schools F(2,506) = 1.087; p = 0.038 < 0.05. It was recommended among others that the State Ministry of Education should employ only teachers that are professionally qualified and certified to teach Social Studies.","PeriodicalId":91339,"journal":{"name":"Journal of progressive research in social sciences","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88067530","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}

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Employment Dynamics and Job Loss among Households in Nigeria: Pre COVID-19 and COVID-19 Periods 尼日利亚家庭就业动态和失业情况:2019冠状病毒病前和2019冠状病毒病期间

Journal of progressive research in social sciences Pub Date : 2022-09-29 DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i2.233

Yetunde OM Oladokun, O. O. Alawode

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The Cross-Cultural Academic Adaptation of Chinese Students in an American University: Academic Challenges, Influential Factors and Coping Strategies 在美中国留学生的跨文化学业适应:学业挑战、影响因素及应对策略

Journal of progressive research in social sciences Pub Date : 2022-09-16 DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i1.231

Dianjian Wang

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Impact of Treasury Bill on Private Sector Credit in Nigeria 财政部法案对尼日利亚私营部门信贷的影响

Journal of progressive research in social sciences Pub Date : 2022-08-30 DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i1.229

Ofonime Moses Akpan, U. Effiong, I. Ukere

{"title":"Impact of Treasury Bill on Private Sector Credit in Nigeria","authors":"Ofonime Moses Akpan, U. Effiong, I. Ukere","doi":"10.53935/26415305.v5i1.229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53935/26415305.v5i1.229","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, the effect of treasury bills on private sector credit in Nigeria using annual data from 1981 to 2018 was examined. The specific objectives of the study were to examine the impact of treasury bills and treasury bill rate on private credit. Treasury bills was disaggregated into its various components and used as explanatory variables along with other essential macroeconomic variables. The study was conducted in the light of the crowding out effect hypothesis. The behavior of variables was captured in an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. The result of the estimated model shows that treasury bills held by commercial banks, treasury bills held by the public and treasury bill rate has significant negative effect on credit to private sector, showing that treasury bills have a crowding out effect on private sector credit. It is recommended that treasury bill rate should be set to align with other rate of return on short term financial asset in the financial system to allow for fair competition between public sector and private sector debt instrument and thus limit the crowding out effect and that the issuing of treasury bills should be justified with the existence of excess liquidity in the financial system.","PeriodicalId":91339,"journal":{"name":"Journal of progressive research in social sciences","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81819350","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}

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Commentary: Shooting on an Arrow, and the Downplay of Regulatory Economics 评论:箭上之射，以及对监管经济学的轻视

Journal of progressive research in social sciences Pub Date : 2022-08-02 DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i1.226

Todd J. Barry

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Impact of Metacognitive Awareness on Basic Eight Students’ Performance in Social Studies 元认知意识对基础八年级学生社会学习成绩的影响

Journal of progressive research in social sciences Pub Date : 2022-07-06 DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i1.212

S. Z. Achor, L. I. Zaria, Emmanuel Edoja Achor

{"title":"Impact of Metacognitive Awareness on Basic Eight Students’ Performance in Social Studies","authors":"S. Z. Achor, L. I. Zaria, Emmanuel Edoja Achor","doi":"10.53935/26415305.v5i1.212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53935/26415305.v5i1.212","url":null,"abstract":"The study investigated the impact of metacognitive awareness on Basic Eight students’ performance in Social Studies in Area of Kogi State, Nigeria. Three research questions and three hypotheses were addressed in the study. The study adopted correlational survey research design. The population consisted of 3,957 Upper Basic Eight students that offer Social Studies (male=2,500, females= 1,457) from 150 co-educational secondary schools. A sample size of 250 Basic Eight Social Studies students was used for the study. Two instruments: Social Studies Performance Test (SOSPT) and Students Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (SMAI) aided data collection. The coefficient of reliability for SOSPT was 0.87, and that of SMAI was 0.73. The data collected were analyzed using regression analysis to answer the research questions and to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. It was found among others that there was significant impact of metacognitive awareness on Basic Eight students’ mean performance scores in Social Studies. There was significant impact of metacognitive awareness on Basic Eight male and also female students’ mean performance scores in Social Studies. The study recommends among others that School authorities and administrators should make provision for activities that stimulate and expose students to metacognitive awareness which could improve their performance in content taught in Social Studies. Curriculum planners should include metacognitive strategies in the Social Studies curriculum to direct teachers on how to use it to improve students' performance. Besides school administrators and curriculum planners, this study has implications for the Social Studies teachers and the learners.","PeriodicalId":91339,"journal":{"name":"Journal of progressive research in social sciences","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82989946","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}

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COVID-19: It’s Impact on Job Security and Employees Attrition of Selected Aviation Companies in Lagos State 2019冠状病毒病:对拉各斯州选定航空公司工作保障和员工流失的影响

Journal of progressive research in social sciences Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.53935/26415305.v5i1.209

Lateef A. Adio

{"title":"COVID-19: It’s Impact on Job Security and Employees Attrition of Selected Aviation Companies in Lagos State","authors":"Lateef A. Adio","doi":"10.53935/26415305.v5i1.209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53935/26415305.v5i1.209","url":null,"abstract":"The global widespread of Covid-19 disease has led to an unparalleled unemployment disaster cum employees’ market surprises and it is anticipated to bring in distinct systemic substitute and prolonged problems for global works. This study tries to investigate the impact of Covid-19 on job security and employees’ attrition of selected aviation companies in Lagos State. A cross-sectional design and simple random sampling technique were employed. A questionnaire was employed as the research instrument for the study with 269 respondents adjudged usable. Multiple regression and correlation analyses were employed to determine the hypotheses of the study. The hypotheses result showed that job security (r = 0.450, p < 0.05), employees’ attrition (r = 0.275, p < 0.05) and lay off and unemployment (F = 33.237; p =0.000) were significantly impacted by Covid-19. The study recommends that National governments and various bodies such as World Health Organizations (WHO) to introduce policies and guidelines that will cushion the impacts of Covid-19 on employees’ job security,’ attrition and lay off and unemployment in terms of taxes reductions, improved safety measures, contingencies approaches, reductions of levies on licenses, public awareness, relaxation of aviation laws in terms pilots renewal licenses, reduction of airline fuel price, reduction of parking lots of the aircrafts, supporting the airlines with funds and adequate incentives would curb employees attrition, job security and employment and would allow the aviation sector to rise again as in the past before the final solution to eradicate the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":91339,"journal":{"name":"Journal of progressive research in social sciences","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84331618","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}

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Analyzing the Effects of CLIL Method in Teaching Business English Writing in China CLIL教学法在中国商务英语写作教学中的效果分析

Journal of progressive research in social sciences Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.53935/2641-5305.v4i1.61

He Rong, S. Nair

{"title":"Analyzing the Effects of CLIL Method in Teaching Business English Writing in China","authors":"He Rong, S. Nair","doi":"10.53935/2641-5305.v4i1.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53935/2641-5305.v4i1.61","url":null,"abstract":"The use of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) teaching method in English writing proved to be efficient in enhancing students’ language and content knowledge. This study aims to explore the effects of utilizing CLIL method in teaching Business English Writing among Chinese college students. A quasi-experimental design was adopted. The experiment lasted for a total of eight weeks. The Experimental Group was taught Business English Writing using CLIL method while the Control Group was instructed with the conventional method. The sample of the study consists of 80 third year Business English college students from Shaoyang University in Hunan Province, China. Two classes of students were chosen as intact group sampling (40 students in each group). A pre-test and post-test were used as instruments. The data was analyzed using Independent samples t-test. Prior to the actual study a pilot test was carried out to obtain the reliability and validity of the instrument (writing test). The findings from quantitative data showed that students of the Experimental Group using CLIL teaching method performed significantly higher in their overall Business English Writing, report writing, memo writing, letter writing than students in the Control Group using conventional method. Therefore, it can be concluded that the CLIL principle should be employed as an alternative method in future writing classes. These findings have significant pedagogical implications because the CLIL method facilitated students to improve in their Business English writing skills.","PeriodicalId":91339,"journal":{"name":"Journal of progressive research in social sciences","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80428239","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}

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The Impact of Marital Status on Work Hours: A Quantitative Study of European Labor Market from Gender Perspective 婚姻状况对工作时间的影响:基于性别视角的欧洲劳动力市场定量研究

Journal of progressive research in social sciences Pub Date : 2021-08-30 DOI: 10.53935/2641-5305.v4i1.49

A. Nandi

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