Education is central to the development of young people as it prepares them for the world of work and life. As young people spend longer periods in education, as part of the natural course of development, sexual experimentation and maturity is increasingly coinciding with secondary schooling (Panday, Makiwane, Ranchod & Letsoalo, 2009:5). For many teenagers it remains at the level of experimentation, and if sex occurs, indications are that some form of contraception is used when teenagers are... read more

The home is the house apartment or place where a child or children live with his or her parents. The fundamental social roles of women are to bear and raise children that will engage in productive task within the household and society at large. Traditionally mothers are expected to participate or involve in social activities or job that could call for her absence in the house environment, that fact is evident in women been employed or engaged in various activities likes, labour, manual, while co... read more

Education, according to Coombs (2000) consists of two components. He classified these two components into inputs and outputs. According to him, inputs consist of human and material resources and outputs are the goals and outcomes of the educational process. Both the inputs and outputs form a dynamic organic whole and if one wants to investigate and assess the educational system in order to improve its performance, effects of one component on the other must be examined. Instructional materials ... read more

Education experts, in general agree that there are three factors that influence the success of the teaching and learning process. These interrelated factors are the society, school and family environments. A study conducted by Miguel and Barsaga (1997), considered factors affecting pupils’ performance, investigating the variables of teacher, students, parents and community, and concluded that the teachers were the key factor affecting students’ achievement. Teachers are charged with the mai... read more

In the current age of educational reform, problem behaviors of students have become an emerging issue for educators, policy makers and school administrators all over the world. Here the term ‘Problem Behavior’ implies to emotional and behavioral adjustment problems of students. Such problems not only impede educational, personal and social development of students but also may results in lifelong impairment functioning in social and personal life (Rutter, 1996). According to Bird, 10% to 2... read more

Arranging the physical environment of the classroom is one of the most important ways to improve the learning environment and prevent behavior problems before they actually occur. This research work shows that the physical arrangement of the classroom affects both the behavior of teachers and students. It discusses the importance of a well-arranged classroom and gives guidelines on how to achieve this. The issue of classroom management is a continuous exercise, which a teacher has to cope with a... read more

Marriage is universal institution known all over the world. It is a legal union of a man and a woman. Marriage can also be called matrimony or Wedlock. It is a socially or recognized union or legal contract between spouses that established right and obligations between each other, their children their in-law and their relatives. Marriage was designed by God to meet the problem of loneliness marriage is meant to last till death, even after death because some of the surviving children of the spous... read more

Early marriage is defined as a formal marriage or informal union before the age of 18. Ango, (2013) defined early marriage as either marriage of an adolescent girl/boy or marriage of an adolescent girl to a matured man or viceversa and this happens at puberty when the individual is getting matured. The marital age according to Molokwu, (2000) is above the age of 18 years, when the individual in physically, socially, academically and emotionally matured to cope with the challenges of marriage. Ea... read more

Vocational education and training as defined by UNESCO (2010, p. 9) is "an educational process leading to the acquisition of practical skills, attitudes, knowledge and skills" knowledge of the occupations in various sectors of the social economy and social life. "VET as an education system enriches the management of economic and development challenges (Quisumbing, 2001). However, this applies when the implementation of VET meets the needs of the population. VET must also be adapted to the nee... read more

his study was on the extent use of instructional materials in teaching and learning of integrated science and computer science in junior secondary school, A case study of Enugu North L. G. A in Enugu State. Four research questions were answered and the population of this study is fourteen (14) schools in Enugu North L. G.A and nine (9) school were selected. Data were presented in table and were analyzed using the mean. The sampling technique used for this study is random sampling and total sa... read more

The four basic language skills are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Writing is described as the most difficult of the four language and communication skills and the last of the skills to be acquired (Maduekwe, 2007; 157). Writing is a means of communication using the written word. Communication implies that what you are writing should be understood by the person who is reading it. If your writing does not communicate then it has not achieved the primary purpose of writing which is to... read more

The high demand for elimination of illiteracy has in various forms elicited response from the Nigerian Government. This has resulted in the government declaration of Universal primary Education (UPE) in 1976 and the Universal Basic Education (UBE) in 2003 which increased students’ enrolment. Reading according to Moyle (1969) is thinking the thoughts that a writer is communicating to his readers by way of the written or printed words. Suleiman and Crossman (1980) defined reading as interactive... read more

Lateness to school started long ago, every where in a way that cannot be controlled in recent time. The problem of lateness has eaten deep into Nigeria children the problem of pupils lateness to school has now turn to national problem. Lateness merely means arriving after expected time. Children commonly miss their school or coming lately because of their usual habits, such as waking up late due to laziness: rushing of undone assignment, unprepared bath, breakfast or meals, clothes, their pac... read more

It is an incontrovertible statement that education, as is acknowledged all over the world, is the key that unlocks the door of development. Knowledge serves as the pedestal on which a nation’s social cohesion and economic development depend. Education enhances the capabilities of an individual. It is a mechanism for enabling active citizenship; thus those who are denied the rights to education face the possibilities of limited chances in the future. UNESCO (2010:8) for in-stance argues that, m... read more

Cultism is dated back to 1952, when Wole Soyinka winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize for Literature-and a group of friends at the University of Ibadan formed the Pyrates Confraternity with the motto “Against all Conventions”. The skull and cross bones were their insignia, cultivating a bohemian style that ridiculed the colonial attitudes mode of dress of the day. This caught on among students and over the next two decades, the fraternity, a non-violent body, became established in all the... read more

The term science has to do with nature. It is derived from the Latin word “Scientia’ meaning to know, what is a fact, truth or certain (Odo, 2012). Science is concerned with finding out about things in our environment. The knowledge we gather about our environment constitutes the field of study called science and is distinguished from other fields because it relies on hypothetical deductive and experimental approach, (Millennium Development Goals, MDGs project, 2011). Mbajiogu (2003) perceiv... read more

Educational technology is a carryover from industrial technology (Ogunranti 1998) and it is also seen as a solution to all education problems (Balogun 1988) educational technology is a process- products which helps in facilitating learning more in the teaching- learning situation. It is also regarded as a systems approach to teaching- learning process centering on the optional design, implementation and evaluation of teaching and learning. Put in another way it is the systematic application of s... read more

This study was designed to examine the impact of e-learning on academic performance In University of Jos. To seek their opinion on the students’ perception of e-learning and academic performance in University of Jos, the 300 and 400level students of the five departments in the Faculty of Education were administered questionnaires. Hypothesis and five-research questions were formulated for testing; these were statistically answered using percentage to establish the students’ responses to e-le... read more

The trend in the academic performance of secondary school students in Nigeria and Akwa Ibom State in particular in the last two decades has become a major source of concern to all stakeholders in the education sector. This is so because of the great importance that education has on the national development of the country. There is a consensus of opinion about the fallen standard of education in Nigeria (Adebule, 2004). Parents and government are in agreement that their huge investment on educati... read more

Education is the best legacy a nation can give to her citizens especially the youths. This is because education is very important in the development of any nation or community. Education is the process of transmitting what is worthwhile to members of the society. According to Okafor (1981). Education embraces all those experiences of the individual through which knowledge is acquired and intellect enlightened. For Nwabachili and Egbue (1993) education is what goes on from one generation to anoth... read more