Educational Technology

The research study was design to measure the participants’ satisfaction with continuous professional development (CPD) program. Study also aims to explore the affects of demographic factors that can enhance or decrease the satisfaction level of the course participants. For the measurement of participants’ satisfaction quantitative and qualitative methods were used. For quanttative analysis a research tool comprised of 73 items were developed and for qualitative analysis interview method was used. The population of the study includes primary school teachers, head teachers and DTE’s. Cluster training and support center, district teacher educator and primary school teachers asked to response about continuous professional development program through the questionnaire and interview. Total number of sample was 66 PST’s, head teachers and DTE’s. The data collected through the questionnaires was analyzed with the help of statistical package for social sciences. Results reveled that overall teachers with less experience and professional qualification are more satisfied with this training; Moreover female teachers are more satisfied as compared to male participants.

Educational Institution is a home away from home and it is a place of knowledge acquisition. It aims in developing the adolescents to fulfill the requirements of the needs of the society. It strives hard in implementing new tactics to enhance the academics, but it still fails in achieving it due to many reasons one among is, addiction to social networks. As we are living in techno world, we are bound to be a member of social networks (SN) and the adolescents are not an exception to it. In this present scenario we are highly dominated by our inventions and the best example is social networks. Though it is featured with many beneficial attributes its impact on adolescent’s academics is worse which indeed troubles the parents and bring them to a conclusion that social networks has connection with adolescent’s academic performance which is considered significant by the educational institution. To find the attribute which cause a strong impact on adolescent’s academic performance, induced linked fuzzy relational mapping using hexagonal fuzzy number approach is used which is a novel method.

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of training facilities on Acquisition of Skills by trainees in Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Uasin Gishu County. The objective of the study was to establish the influence of adequacy of facilities on Acquisition of Skills. The study was guided by theory of human capital which was postulated by Becker (2009). The study adopted a descriptive survey. The target population of the study was 850 respondents comprising of 10 principals, 240 instructors and 600 trainees. A sample size of 90 respondents was selected comprising of 6 principals, 24 instructors and 60 trainees as the respondents. Stratified purposive and simple random sampling techniques was employed. Questionnaires were used to collect data. Cronbach’s alpha co-efficient was used to ensure reliability of the research instruments. Data was analyzed using pearson product moment correlation. The study established that there was a significant positive and strong relationship between adequacy of training facilities and acquisition of skills (r= 0.611, p =0.000). The study concluded that TVETs have inadequate training facilities such as workshops, up to date tools and equipment, classes and instructional materials. The inadequate training facilities could be contributing to low Acquisition of Skills by trainees in TVETs in Uasin Gishu County. It was recommended that there was need for ministry of education to develop a policy on training facilities in Technical and Vocational Education and Training, in order to procure adequate, relevant and up-to- date tools and equipment to ensure their trainees acquire high quality vocational skills.

The study examines the Influence of Group Discussion Technique on Students’ Academic Performance in Economics in Senior Secondary Schools in Calabar Municipality, Cross River State. To achieve the purpose of the study, one null hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The survey research design was adopted for the study. A sample size of two hundred (200) respondents was randomly selected for the study. The “Examining the Influence of Group Discussion Questionnaire” (EIGDQ)”, and “Achievement Test in Economics” (ATE) werethe instruments used to collect data for the study. The statistical tool used to analyze the data was Independent t-test statistical analysis. The findings of the study affirmed that group discussion significantly influences students’ academic performance in Economics in Calabar Municipality. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that: teachers should be trained and retrained on the effective use of group discussion in the teaching of Economics,Curriculum planners should incorporate group discussion technique into economics curriculumof senior secondary school to enable teachers utilize them in teaching Economics, Economics teachers should be given easy access to capacity building programme through workshop, conference, seminar, symposia and exhibition on group discussion technique to enable them learn how to effectively apply this technique when teaching Economics, space and the needed instructional aids should be provided to enable teachers and students to adopt this instructional delivery technique.

Teachers are the back bone of society. Public and private schools are directly related with student achievements. A good school uses different strategies for student achievement. If the teachers are competent and teach students in better way, then they can achieve their goals in every field of life. This paper attempts to study the comparison of students’ achievement between public and private schools. This study shows that students’ achievement is based on quality education. Some factors affect the students achievement such as parent background, involvement of parents, low income, environment of a school and physical facilities.In this way this study shows that what influence the academic difference of public and private schools on students achievement. This study will be descriptive in nature therefore descriptive survey method of research will be used. The population of this study will comprise of all the secondary school students of distric Vehari. The sample of twenty secondary (private & public) schools will be selected from tehsil Vehari. Out of 1000 students 280 will be selected by using simple random technique. Questionnaire will be used to collect data from respondents. The collected data will be analyzed statistically by using (SPSS) software.

The problem of unemployment among the youth is a huge concern as majority of them face significant difficulties engaging in productive employment, mainly due to a mismatch of the competencies they possess to those required by the labour market. Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is one promising avenue in addressing this problem. Kenya has identified the critical role of TVET in preparing, developing and updating the skills and competences to meet the needs of the changing industrial environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of competency in technical skills acquired on labour market requirements in Technical Vocational Education and Training in Uasin Gishu County. The target population of the study was 850 respondents comprising of 10 principals, 240 instructors and 600 TVET graduates. A sample size of 90 respondents was selected comprising of 6 principals, 24 instructors and 60 TVET graduates of the respondents. Stratified purposive and simple random sampling techniques was employed. Questionnaires were used to collect data. Cronbach’s alpha co-efficient was used to ensure reliability of the research instruments. Data was analyzed using pearson product moment correlation. The study established that there was a significant positive and strong relationship between competency in technical skills acquired and labour market requirements (r= 0.565, p =0.000). The study concluded that TVETs competency level in technical skills acquired had significant influence on labour market requirements in TVETs in Uasin Gishu County. The Government needs to invest in training the youth to specifically meet the relevant industrial standards. In addition, practice of the skills learnt among the learners should be enhanced. This exposes the youth to the market before graduation and greatly elevates their competency levels.

In order to improve the English teaching effect, we adopt the information system as the assistance with the English teaching. By the online function and automatic management with the system software, teachers and students got more communication and achieved more effective results, especially on spoken English. The practice implies that it is feasible and effective to apply the information system to the English teaching.

The purpose of this study is to determine the university student’s intention toward doing job or business. This study is based on primary data in which data collected from 150 students of different university of Lahore District, Pakistan. We use self administrated approach. The response rate is 86%. 64% of the students decide to do job and 33% decided to start their own business. 80% female are interested to do job, and 54% male willing for job because female are less risk taker rather than male. Female performance more to do a job rather than business because male to do business rather than job.

This study sought to assess the adequacy and appropriateness of the contents for the attainment of the NCE Physics curriculum objectives. The study covered 24 Colleges of Education and 60 lecturers. Both descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were used to analyze the data gathered in the study. The results showed that the contents of the NCE Physics curriculum are adequate and appropriate for the attainment of the stated objectives. It was recommended that sufficient courses and periods are allocated to practical lessons and laboratory management adequately.

Worldwide national policies on higher education are giving increasing importance to improve the quality of education on offer. Consequently, the evaluation of teachers’ performance is especially relevant for the academic institutions as it helps to define efficient plans to guarantee quality of teachers and the teaching learning process. However, a key challenge is to understand the complex range of features associated with teacher evaluation, the contentiuos issues on accuracy and reliability of classical evaluation methods coupled with both mixed empirical evidence about their effects on students’ learning and conflicts of interest between key actors of education systems. This paper is an overview of evaluation of teachers’ performance in higher institutions, challenges in the progress, the main research areas and its applications to develop an effective and improved teachers’ performance evaluation system.