Lecturers In Higher Institutions Research Articles

Scholarly Publishing Practices among LIS Lecturers in Higher Institutions of Learning in Nigeria

This study investigates the scholarly publishing practices among LIS lecturers in Nigerian higher education institutions, focusing on their publishing outlets, perceived barriers, and necessary skills for successful publishing. Utilizing a descriptive survey design, the study gathered data from 362 LIS educators across Nigerian institutions through a questionnaire, analyzed using descriptive statistics. The study reveals that LIS lecturers in Nigerian higher education institutions have positive perceptions of scholarly publishing, recognizing its importance for professional growth and career advancement. Furthermore, the findings indicate that while academic journals are the primary outlet for communicating research findings, LIS lecturers also utilize a range of other channels, including conference proceedings, books, social media, and collaborative research projects, highlighting a diverse approach to scholarly dissemination. The findings emphasize the paramount importance of skills required to navigate the scholarly publishing process effectively. The study recommended that higher institutions of education should implement mentorship and training programs specifically designed to support lecturers in developing the skills needed for scholarly publishing.

Probable Causes And Strategies to Address The Issue of High Rate of Debauchery Among The Youth: With Reference to Erik Erikson’s Fifth Stage of Psychosocial Theory of Personality Development

Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development posits that individuals advance through eight different stages of life, each marked by a crisis that must be resolved in order to successfully move on to the next stage. According to Erikson's theory, successfully resolving these crises leads to the development of a healthy psychosocial identity, while a failure to resolve these crises can result in a less healthy identity or even identity confusion. The youth of today shows a lot of misconduct in the society and this is attributed to the fact that they fail to resolve the conflict at the fifth stage (identity vs role confusion) of psychosocial theory of personality development. The study reveals some of the probable causes of debauchery among others as mass media, bad peer influence, dysfunctional homes, poor parenting styles and lack of education. The study however suggested some strategies to address the issue of high rate of debauchery; education, building strong relationship with the youth, building confidence and self-compassion and good peer influence. It was therefore concluded that teenagers at this time investigate numerous facets of identity and either acquire a coherent sense of who they are or stay confused about who they are and what they want out of life. Parents, on the other hand, are supposed to provide a good parenting style that will not damage the child in terms of identifying himself or herself. It was recommended among others that school authorities and lecturers in higher institutions should intensify efforts in educating the youth on moral values that will enable them acquire a set of beliefs and values on what is right and wrong which will make them excel. Again, institutions can establish policies and procedures for addressing misconduct, including reporting and investigation protocols, as well as consequences for violating standards of behavior.

E-LEARNING MOTIVATION AMONG STUDENT-ATHLETES OF UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA (UiTM), MALAYSIA.

The greatest challenge for educators during the pandemic Covid 19 situation today is to motivate their students to adopt e-learning. Therefore, it is important for lecturers in higher institutions to understand how to motivate their learners in choosing the types of motivation. Motivation refers to the concern with arousal, direction and persistence of behaviour towards the achievement of a specific goal, which classified into intrinsic and extrinsic. The objective of this study is to explore the types of motivation in adopting e-learning among the student-athletes of Sport Science and Recreation Faculty at University Technology MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. One hundred and twenty student t- athletes participated in this study. They were categorized into four ranking known as national, state, district and university based on their achievement in sports. The overall result showed that the student-athletes have the highest level of motivation in External Regulation (mean= 27.51), followed by Introjected Regulation (mean= 25.74), Identified Regulation (mean= 22.32), Amotivation (mean= 20.34), Intrinsic Motivation to Experience (mean= 17.17), Intrinsic Motivation to Know (mean= 15.31) and Intrinsic Motivation to Accomplish (mean= 12.55). Furthermore, national level athletes scored higher mean in both types of e-learning motivation except for Amotivation. In contrast, university ranking student-athletes scored the lowest on all the types of motivations for e-learning but highest in Amotivation. The findings obtained in this study supported by Self-Determination theory that e-learning involves the interaction of both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Therefore, educators should use intrinsic and extrinsic types of motivation to enhance the e learning habits among student-athletes to increase their performance in academic.

Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Perception of Covid-19 Vaccines among Lecturers in Higher Institutions in Ilorin, Nigeria

Background: This study assessed the knowledge, attitude and perception of COVID-19 vaccine among lecturers in higher institutions in Ilorin.
 Methods: It was a web based cross-sectional study conducted for a period of eight weeks among lecturers in higher institutions in Ilorin. Data on socio- demographics, COVID-19 and vaccinerelated concerns were collected and analyzed. Descriptive and inferentialfrequency statistics were done. Chi-square test was used to evaluate associations between the categorical variables. P-value was set at <0.05. Ordinal logistic regression was used to evaluate the determinants of willingness to accept COVID-19 vaccine.
 Results: A total of 1800 lecturers participated in this study. The gender distribution showed male preponderance (n=1217, 67.6%) and most participants were married (n=1546, 85.9%). Most common age group was 36-50year (n=772, 42.9%). Majority of the participants got information on COVID-19, vaccine and preventive measures through the social media. Less than half (46.5%) of the participant used the preventive measures only when present in crowded environment. Most (93.4%) of the participant believed the preventive measures helps to reduce the spread of the disease. Female gender (p= <0.001), good perception (p= <0.001) and some other factors affected the willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccine.
 Conclusion: There was high awareness and good perception of COVID-19 and its vaccine among the study participants. Information about COVID-19 vaccine and the disease were mostly gotten from the social media, as few of the study participants practiced the preventive measures though most were willing to take the vaccine when it becomes available. Thus, healthcare policy makers should take advantage of social media to disseminate appropriate information on COVID-19 and vaccine to improve disease control.

Exploring Jigsaw Writing for Journal Writing (JWJA)

The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is obtained through the lecturers’ effort to engage in teaching and research. SoTL puts teaching and research as belonging to a symbiotic relationship. To improve teaching, there should be research. The end product of a research is publication in journals. So, why aren’t lecturers writing in journals? Lack of time to write and lack of knowledge of the writing process are two main reasons why lecturers in higher institutions are not actively writing for journals. Writing for a journal article is no doubt an academic writing and many lecturers have gone through postgraduate studies where they have submitted thesis in the form of academic writing. Some even teach academic writing to students. So, why is it still difficult for lecturers to write academic articles for journals? This study is done to introduce an interesting way of teaching lecturers to write journal articles for publication in journals. This quantitative study explores the concept of jigsaw writing for lecturers. This approach explores team writing using colours as scaffolds. 139 participants participated in this one cycle of jigsaw writing for journal writing project. At the end of the cycle, the participants responded to a survey that contains items on the writing process and team work. Findings revealed that the JWJA approach gave writers a springboard to writing through the planning, and team-work; as well as, the use of coloured scaffolds. The findings bear interesting implications towards team-writing among academicians. Future research could look into how to motivate academicians to writer academic papers.

Prevalence and Causes of Misconduct among University Undergraduates in Ilorin, Nigeria

This study investigated prevalence and causes of misconduct among university undergraduates in Ilorin. It adopted a descriptive survey design and was guided by four research questions. The sample for this study was 300 undergraduates using multistage sampling technique. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire. Frequency count and percentage were used to analyse the questions raised. The findings revealed that misconduct of various degrees is prevalent among university students and that the prime factors such as poverty, negative peer influence, parents’ divorce and many more are responsible for illicit behaviour. The outcome of the study further revealed that if the menace still continues it can degenerate into loss of intellectual property and hurt graduates’ future employment prospects. It was recommended among others that school authorities and lecturers in higher institutions should intensify efforts in educating students on moral values that will enable them acquire a set of beliefs and values on what is right and wrong which will make them excel in their academic career rather than pursue activities and characters that would not make them relevant in the society.

Mediation Effects Organizational Citizenship Behavior Between Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence on Lecturer Performance at The College Economics

Education plays an essential role in every process of improving the quality and progress of the nation. Quality human resources are needed in building society in a country in the current industrial era 4.0. One of the ways is by improving the quality of education in educating the human resources owned by the State. The function of this particular examine was actually towards discuss the mediating impact of Organizational Citizenship Behavior in between emotional intelligence as well as spiritual intelligence on the efficiency of lecturers in higher institutions of business economics in Surabaya. Besides, this examine likewise intends towards identify the degree of these three variables' affect on efficiency. This kind of research study is actually quantitatively connected with a study technique performed towards academic personnel within this particular situation. The sampling method is actually symmetrical arbitrary sampling. The outcomes revealed a partial arbitration impact in between emotional intelligence as well as spiritual intelligence on the mentor staff's efficiency, within this particular situation, the lecturers. These three variables likewise have actually a considerable impact on the efficiency of lecturers at higher institutions of business economics in Surabaya.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Academic Research among Lecturers in Higher Institutions in Rivers State, Nigeria

The advent of Covid-19 pandemic has altered events and activities in almost all areas of human endeavour including conduct of academic research in higher institutions of learning. To this end, many institutions, organizations and governments are assessing the impact of this disease with a view to recovering from it and adopting survival strategies to cope with it and in the post era. The purpose of this paper therefore is to find out the impact of Covid-19 on academic research among lecturers in higher institutions in Rivers State. The study adopted the descriptive research design. Two research questions and one hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. The population comprised all university lecturers in the three universities in Rivers State. The Stratified random sampling technique was used to select the sample size of 360. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire titled: ‘Impact of Covid-19 on Research Questionnaire (ICRQ)’. The research questions were answered with mean and standard deviation, while the hypothesis was tested with t-test at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study showed that restriction on conference, workshop and seminar attendance, suspension of research activities and funding, adoption of virtual learning environment for conferences and paper presentations, slow network and speed of internet, high cost of data for internet connections, difficulty switching to the e-learning platforms, etc. Impact of Covid-19 on academic research was the same for all the lecturers – male and female in the higher institutions in Rivers State. The study recommended that adoption of virtual and e-learning platforms have come to stay. Lecturers should update their knowledge in line with the recent trend in order to be relevant in the university system.

INVESTIGATING CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO STRESS AMONG MATHEMATICS LECTURERS IN HIGHER INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA

Introduction: This study investigated some contributing factors to stress among mathematics lecturers in higher institutions of learning in Oyo state, Nigeria. Purpose: The study was to find out the contributions of cognitive, intrinsic and systemic factors in causing stress among mathematics lecturers in higher institutions. Methodology: The study adopted a survey research design. The population of the study covered mathematics lecturers in ten (10) selected higher Institutions of learning in Oyo State, Nigeria. Simple random sampling technique was used in the selection of one hundred (100) mathematics lecturers, ten (10) lecturers per institution participated in the study. A self-designed structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the participants in the study. Croabach alpha was used to attain Correlation Coefficient (r = 0.88) which made the instrument reliable for the study. Three hypotheses were tested using the Chi square statistic at 0.05 level of significant. Results: Findings revealed that cognitive factors did affect individual Mathematics lecturer with x2-tab (21.0) < x2-cal (183.31). Also, intrinsic factors do affect the level of stress among Mathematics lecturers with x2-tab (21.0) < x2-cal (86.84), while systemic factors within the school setting did affect stress among Mathematics with x2-tab (21.0) < x2-cal (91..62). Recommendations: Based on findings of the study, it was recommended among others that management of higher institutions of learning should encourage mathematics lecturers to go for break and relaxation every day during break period on the academic time table.

Lecturers’ Perceptions of Open-Plan Office in Tertiary Institutions

This paper describes and assesses lecturers’ perceptions of open-plan office in selected tertiary institutions in Botswana. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 222 randomly selected lecturers who were occupants of open-plan office in three different private tertiary institutions in Botswana. The results showed that lecturers have a negative perception of open-plan office. Lecturers believed that open-plan office is not suitable for their research and academic work. The findings suggest that open-plan office affects lecturers’ dignity negatively. Among other things, it is recommended that management of the institutions covered by this study and other institutions with similar challenges in Africa should consider the provision of office design that is ideal for knowledge workers such as lecturers in higher institutions in order to improve their efficiency.

Higher Institutions Lecturers’ Attitude Towards Integration of ICT into Teaching and Research in Nigeria

Higher Institutions Lecturers’ Attitude Towards Integration of ICT into Teaching and Research in Nigeria

The Nigerian Communications Commission and the Digital Bridge Institute: First South–South Zonal Advanced Digital Appreciation Workshop For Tertiary Institutions

PurposeThe article aims to focus on the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), Abuja, first zonal workshop on Advanced Digital Appreciation for lecturers from Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education in Nigeria. A total of 89 lecturers from nine tertiary institutions from the south–south zone of Nigeria participated in the workshop. The workshop took place in October 2006.Design/methodology/approachThe paper gives an outline of the event.FindingsThe broad business and purpose of the NCC as derived from the enabling Decree 75 of 1992 is to facilitate private sector participation in telecommunications service delivery, coordinate and regulate the activities of all the operators to ensure consistency in availability and survey of service delivery and fair pricing.The DBI is an international Centre for Communications Studies which is affiliated with the NCC. The workshop comprised five modules: Introduction to Computers, Introduction to Microsoft Word 2003, Introduction to Microsoft Power Point 2003, Introduction to Microsoft Excel 2003, and Introduction to the Internet.Originality/valueThe article details how the workshop was a train‐the‐trainer initiative for lecturers in higher institutions with a view to equipping them with knowledge and skills of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) which would facilitate the research and teaching activities in their respective institutions.