Schools In Nigeria Research Articles

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Literacy, An Investment for Enhancing Educators’ Skills in AI Powered Primary Schools in Nigeria

A descriptive survey was conducted to investigate whether an investment in artificial intelligence (AI) literacy predicts the enhancement of educators’ skills for them to be effective in an AI powered environment in state primary schools in Nigeria. Three research questions and null hypotheses were formulated at .05 level of significance for the study. 1000 teachers were recruited from across five schools located in five geopolitical zones of the country using cluster sampling. Artificial intelligence literacy and educators’ skills enhancement questionnaire (AILESEQ) was deployed to generate data. Based on the human capital development theory, data was analysed via the simple linear regression. Findings suggest that knowledge of AI, use of AI devices and understanding the ethical issues about AI technologies significantly predict the enhancement of educators’ skills in AI powered primary schools in Nigeria. It is recommended that government should organise training workshops on AI literacy for educators in schools; the policy on education needs review to produce a framework for the introduction of AI in education (AIIE) to benefit the teachers; the curriculum of teacher education has to be revised to feature AIIE; AI literacy should be a requirement for recruiting new teachers; schools have to produce guidelines for the application of AI devices; government can create a demonstration school to trial the AI initiative; government can commit one percent of value added tax to fund AIIE; awareness campaigns should be organised regularly via various media to educate relevant stakeholders about the benefits of AIIE.

AVAILABILITY AND UTILISATION OF RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN EDO STATE, NIGERIA

The study examined the availability utilisation of learning resources in public and private secondary schools in Nigeria with focus on Central Senatorial District of Edo State. Two research questions were raised. The descriptive research design was adopted in the study. The purposive sampling technique was used to draw a sample of 35 private and 35 public secondary schools from the entire population of all the English language teachers in the 69 public and 70 private Senior Secondary Schools (SSS) in Central Senatorial District of Edo State. A checklist was used to collect data on the availability and utilisation of learning resources in schools. The face and content validity of the instrument Learning Resources Availability and Utilisation Checklist (LERAAUC) .Research questions 1 and 2 were analysed using descriptive statistics (mean (X ̅) and standard deviation (S.D). The results from the analyses showed that the recommended learning resources needed for the teaching of English Language are scantily available and utilised in public and private secondary schools in Edo Central Senatorial District, Nigeria. It was recommended that the state government should ensure that all learning resources such as: print resources and audio/visual resources should be readily provided for the teaching of English Language to promote the teaching and learning of English Language in secondary schools.

Child Labor: The Human Trafficking Exploitation in Nigeria.

This paper examines the issue of child labor and human trafficking exploitation in Nigeria. These practices deprive children of educational opportunities and normal childhood development, propagating cycles of poverty. Various cultural, socioeconomic, and religious drivers enable the persistence of child labor despite legislative interventions. This study utilizes mixed-methods data involving qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore the nature, contributors, and impacts of child labor in Nigeria by reviewing scholarly journals, reports, statistical data, and policy documents. Factors analyzed include cultural attitudes, poverty, porous borders, gender norms, and the breakdown of Islamic educational apprenticeships. Consequences across health, psychology, education, and national growth are scrutinized. Governmental efforts and remaining gaps are assessed. Results revealed that cultural acceptance of child economic roles, especially for girls, and endemic poverty drive families to perpetuate child labor traditions. Economic integration policies enable trafficking across West African borders. Nigeria’s Almajiri Qur’anic education system has deteriorated, with many boys now begging or working for survival rather than studying. The result is vulnerability to further exploitation. A novel finding from this study revealed that about 80.5% of participants responded that their child labor experiences did not affect their education, contrasting existing research that found child labor to limit schooling in Nigeria. Few victims develop lifelong health issues and trauma. In some cases, erratic education also propagates intergenerational poverty. Although Nigeria has implemented institutional interventions, enforcement gaps allow child labor to persist. Extended research into policy efficacy and poverty reduction initiatives are warranted to alleviate cultural and economic strains compelling child labor to neglect human rights.

INCLUSIVE EDUCATION: AN IMPERATIVE TOOL FOR ENHANCING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS IN BUSINESS EDUCATION

This paper focuses on inclusive education as an imperative tool for enhancing academic performance of students with special needs in business education. All people have a right to education. Inclusive education is an approach that ensures the presence, participation and achievement of all students in education. This may be in formal schools or in non-formal places of learning. Inclusion emphasizes opportunities for equal participation but with options for special assistance and facilities needed. This paper highlights the concept of inclusive education, business education and benefits of inclusive education as a tool for enhancing academic performance. This paper recommended that; A special directorate of inclusive education should be created in Federal and State Ministries of Education: Government of Nigeria should adequately fund inclusive education: Specialists should be employed in various primary schools in Nigeria; There should be policy enabling the establishment of inclusive schools in every community in Nigeria.

The unique contributions of depression and anxiety to suicidal ideation among Nigerian secondary school students: a cross-sectional survey.

It is important to establish the pattern of suicidal ideation among adolescents with depression and anxiety. This will help the schools prevent possible complete suicide among these groups of adolescents' trough counseling and education. This work is therefore aimed at determining the effects of depression and anxiety on adolescent suicide ideation and factors that predict suicidal ideation among adolescents attending secondary school in southeast Nigeria. A cross-sectional study among 450 secondary school adolescents in Enugu state, Nigeria. Information was obtained using the Columbia suicide severity rating scale and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Chi-square test, correlation analysis and Hierarchical logistic regression were used in the analysis, and the level of statistical significance was determined using a P-value of <0.05. The prevalence of anxiety was 36.4% while that of depression was 30.7%. The prevalence of suicidal ideation was 8.4%. The prevalence of suicidal ideation among adolescents who were <15 years was 8.0% while those who were between 15 - 18 years was 13.5% and those more than 19 years of age was 22.5%. The prevalence of suicidal ideation among adolescents with depression is 21.7% and 78.3 % for those without depression while the prevalence of suicidal ideation among adolescents with anxiety is 20.1% and 79.9 % for those without anxiety. The prevalence of suicidal ideation among the poorest half was 16.4% and 10.2% in the richer half. There was a higher prevalence of suicidal ideation among the urban dwellers (53.3%) than the rural dwellers (46.7%).There was a positive correlation between suicide and age in years and this was found to be statistically significant, (n=450, r=0.107, p=0.023). A significantly higher proportion of respondents who had depression, 21.7% had suicidal ideation when compared with those who were not, (χ 2=12.170, p<0.001). Similarly, a significantly higher proportion of respondents who had an anxiety disorder, (20.1%) had suicidal ideation when compared with those who were not, 9.4%, (χ 2=10.291, p=0.001). The respondents who were 19 years and above had increased suicidal ideation, and the difference in proportions was found to be statistically significant, (χ 2=6.440, p=0.040). A significantly higher proportion of females, 16.6% had suicidal intentions when compared with the males, 7.1%, (χ 2=7.958, p=0.005). There is an increasing prevalence of suicidal ideation among adolescents with a preponderance of older age and female gender. There is a link between depression/anxiety and suicidal ideation. The prevalence of suicidal ideation among the poorest half was higher than that of the richer half. There was a higher prevalence of suicidal ideation among the urban dwellers than the rural dwellers.

Towards Effective Upper Basic Education Curriculum Implementation in Private and Public Schools in Nigeria

Purpose: This study investigated the effective implementation of the upper basic education curriculum in private and public schools in Nigeria. Methodology: The research employed a cross-sectional survey design, guided by three research questions and three null hypotheses. The study used a sample of 1134 respondents, comprising 954 teachers and 180 supervisors, drawn from a population of 145,783 teachers and 19,466 supervisors. Findings: A multistage sampling technique was adopted. The researchers developed an instrument named the Questionnaire on the Implementation of Upper Basic Education Curriculum (QIUBEC) for data collection. Significance: Three experts validated the instrument, and it demonstrated a reliability coefficient of 0.98 using Cronbach's Alpha. Mean, percentage, and standard deviation were employed to address the research questions, and a t-test was utilized to test the null hypotheses at a 0.05 level of significance. Based on the findings, several recommendations were made, including the suggestion that science teachers should choose teaching pedagogies that provide all students in the classroom with equal learning opportunities to reach their full potential.

Play Way Method and Academic Achievement of Students with Deafness in Social Studies in Special Education Schools in Uyo Nigeria

Purpose: This work examined the Influence of Play Way Method on the Academic Achievement of Students with Deafness in Social Studies in Special schools in Uyo Nigeria. The objectives of the work were to examine the difference in the achievement of students with deafness taught social studies using play way method and those taught without in Special schools in uyo Nigeria ; determine the difference in achievement of male and female students with deafness taught social studies using play way method in Uyo, Special schools in uyo Nigeria and assess the difference in achievement of students with deafness in rural and urban areas taught social studies using play way method and those taught without in Special schools in uyo Nigeria .&#x0D; Materials and Methods: The research adopted the quasi experimental research design of the pre test post test control group methodology. Independent t-test was used to test the hypotheses. A researcher-designed questionnaire titled "Playway Method Instrument" and a Social Studies Achievement Test were the instruments used for data collection.&#x0D; Findings: Findings of the study indicated that there is a significant influence of play way method on the academic achievement of students with deafness in social studies in Special education schools in Uyo Nigeria.&#x0D; Implications to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study recommended that Teacher should create play activities to engage the students during every lesson. This will engage students into more activities which will enable them use their hands, develop their eye-hand coordination as they usually concentrate carefully on what they are doing.

Towards Designing Choreography Curriculum Template for African Contemporary Dance Using Dayo Liadi’s Olori-Oko Dance Performance

Modern dance techniques such as choreography gives the genre a unique language that can be used to expand the dance technique and dance composition as used by choreographers. Dayo Liadi as a choreographer and study in this article has used contemporary dance genre of body gestures to communicate his message through signs and cultural symbols, towards the appreciation from the audience. However, there are many thematic areas including space, shapes, images, body movement, and other paraphernalia employed in the style called contemporary dance type of choreography. Thus, all of these must be preserved and replicated as unique dance techniques. Therefore, the need to study and propose an indigenous choreography curriculum that emanates from Dayo Liadi’s creative work i.e. Olori Oko performance. The study is anchored on Michael Forkine’s Perspective of Adorno Theodor’s Philosophical Aesthetic theory. This is with the view to incorporate home-grown curriculum contents into dance studies in theatre schools in Nigeria and in Africa. The study adopted quantitative research method, involving participants’ observation, transcription and content analysis of lyrics and video using a checklist to conduct thorough video pre-view and review of the choreographic work. Major findings revealed a need for collaboration and performances to sharpen and widen the horizon of the artistic and creativity appreciation, with the view to incorporate new dance techniques into the Nigerian and African dance techniques such as incorporated in Dayo Liadi’s creative work. The study recommend direct implementation or adoption of the proposed curriculum template as part of choreography dance studies in theatre curriculum among departments in higher institutions Nigeria and Africa.

A national perspective on exposure to essential surgical procedures among medical trainees in Nigeria: a cross-sectional survey and recommendations

BackgroundIn sub-Saharan Africa, recent graduates from medical school provide more direct surgical and procedural care to patients than their counterparts from the Global North. Nigeria has no nationally representative data on the procedures performed by trainees before graduation from medical school and their confidence in performing these procedures upon graduation has also not been evaluated.MethodsWe performed an internet-based, cross-sectional survey of recent medical school graduates from 15 accredited Federal, State, and private Nigerian medical schools spanning six geopolitical zones. Essential surgical procedures, bedside interventions and three Bellwether procedures were incorporated into the survey. Self-reported confidence immediately after graduation was calculated and compared using cumulative confidence scores with subgroup analysis of results by type and location of institution. Qualitative analysis of free text recommendations by participants was performed using the constant comparative method in grounded theory.ResultsFour hundred ninety-nine recent graduates from 6 geopolitical zones participated, representing 15 out of a total of 44 medical schools in Nigeria. Male to female ratio was 2:1, and most respondents (59%) graduated from Federal institutions. Students had greatest practical mean exposure to bedside procedures like intravenous access and passing urethral foley catheters and were most confident performing these. Less than 23% had performed over 10 of any of the assessed procedures.They had least exposures to chest tube insertion (0.24/person), caesarean Sect. (0.12/person), and laparotomy (0.09/person). Recent graduates from Federal institutions had less procedural exposure in urethral catheterization (p < 0.001), reduction (p = 0.035), and debridement (p < 0.035).Respondents that studied in the underserved North-East and North-West performed the highest median number of procedures prior to graduation. Cumulative confidence scores were low across all graduates (maximum 25/60), but highest in graduates from Northern Nigeria and private institutions. Graduates recommended prioritizing medical students over senior trainees, using simulation-based training and constructive individualized non-toxic feedback from faculty.ConclusionNigerian medical students have poor exposure to procedures and low confidence in performing basic procedures after graduation. More attention should be placed on training for essential surgeries and procedures in medical schools.

Economic Recession and Science Students’ Enrolment in Senior Secondary School in Nigeria

The study investigated economic recession as a determinant of Science Students’ Enrolment in South West Nigeria. The research design of the expo-facto type was adopted for the study. The study population consisted of all public Senior Secondary School Science Students in South West Nigeria. This entails 360 science students who enrolled for 2017, 2018 and 2019 sessions in the stated schools. The selection of the schools was done through Multistage Sampling procedure. A research question was raised and three research hypotheses were formulated for the study. Inventory of Senior Secondary School Science Students Enrolment-list (ISSSSSE) was used as an instrument for data collection. Data collected were analysed using Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation and t-test. Findings from the study revealed that economic recession determined the numbers of science students who enrolled in these three consecutive years used for the study. Also, a significant difference was recorded in science students’ enrolment in urban and rural areas in favour of urban area. Gender has no significant difference on the enrolment of science students based on the result from the findings. It was recommended based on the findings that government should avert any problem that could result into economic recession for sustainable development of education. Also, government should try to make policies that will favour social-economic development in the rural areas of the country. Parents should have a sort of understanding that science subjects are not just for the male child, but that girls can as well perform excellently in science subjects.

A randomized control trial establishing the effectiveness of using interactive television-based art, music, and poetry therapies for treating the post-traumatic stress disorder of children exposed to traumatic events

This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of interactive television-based music, art, and poetry therapies in reducing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder among school children who have experienced abduction. A randomized control trial was adopted using school children from three selected secondary schools in Northern Nigeria that have experienced the issue of kidnapping. The treatment is characterized by (1) group setting, (2) TV instruction (3) school collaboration, and (4) use of artistic mediation. The study sample comprised 470 students randomly divided into a control group of 235 and an experiment group of 235. The treatment group was further divided into art (N = 78), music (N = 78) and poetry (N = 79), respectively. Results suggest that interactive television art, music and poetry therapies are an effective intervention strategy for reducing the PTSD of school children who have experienced kidnapping in Nigeria. However, art therapy is more effective in reducing PTSD. This study has offered empirical evidence that could guide the planning and implementation of therapies aimed at assisting school children to recover from traumatic experiences.

Effect of Audio-Visual-Based Art and Music Therapy in Reducing Adolescents Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PurposePost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop due to exposure to any event that may result in psychological trauma. This study compared the effect of interactive audio-visual-based art and music therapy in reducing post-traumatic stress disorder in adolescents who survived abduction in Nigeria. MethodsA quasiexperiment was carried out in two selected secondary schools in Northern Nigeria. The study sample comprised 470 students randomly divided into a control group of 235 and an experiment group of 235. The treatment group was further divided into art 118 and music 117 therapy groups, respectively. ResultsResults suggest that interactive audio-visual art therapy and music therapy is an effective intervention strategy for reducing the PTSD of school adolescents that have experienced kidnapping in Nigeria. However, art therapy is more effective in reducing PTSD than music therapy. DiscussionWe recommend the introduction of audio-visual-based music and art therapy to reduce the PTSD of adolescents that survived kidnapping in Nigeria. More focus should be made on art therapy, which is more effective in curtailing adolescents PTSD.

Analysis of the psychometric properties of business studies achievement test for senior secondary schools in Nigeria

The study analyzed the psychometric properties of business studies achievement test for senior secondary schools in Nigeria. One research question guided the study. The study adopted an instrumentation design. The area of the study was Anambra State. The population of the study consists of all 23,077 students and 586 business studies teachers in two hundred and sixty-one senior secondary schools in Anambra State. Taro Yamane formula was used to determine the sample size of the study, which is 630 made up of 393 students in SS1 and 238 business studies teachers in Anambra State. A multi-stage sampling procedure involving two stages was adopted for this study. Proportionate stratified and purposive sampling techniques were employed at the first and second stages respectively. Items were subjected to item analysis to determine the difficulty and discriminatory indices. The study revealed that 125 items were found to be appropriate for inclusion in the business studies achievement test, these test's items met the criteria for item difficulty index and item discrimination. Based on the findings of the study it was recommended that teachers of business studies like commerce, accounting, and office practice among others should employ the created business studies Achievement Test. The BSAT items should be used as a model when creating other accomplishment exams for senior secondary schools in business studies.

Problem gambling among secondary school adolescents in Enugu, Nigeria.

Adolescent problem gambling is a common behavioural issue and could be associated with internet addiction. To determine the pattern of problem gambling and factors that predict gambling among adolescents that attended secondary schools in southeast Nigeria. This is a cross-sectional study design. A three-stage sampling technique was used to select 796 secondary school adolescents from eight secondary schools in Enugu State, Nigeria. The highest proportion of the respondents, 38.3% had problem gambling with negative consequences. There was a weak positive correlation between gambling severity index and internet addiction. (n=796, r=0.254, p<0.001). There is a very weak negative correlation between gambling severity index and age in years. (n=796, r= -0.034, p=0.331).The male respondents were 1.5 times more likely to have problem gambling when compared with the females, (AOR=1.5; (95%CI: 1.1-2.0). The respondents who have internet addiction were 3.5 times more likely to have problem gambling when compared with those who do not have an internet addiction, (AOR=3.5; 95%CI: 2.6-4.8). The prevalence of gambling among adolescents is high. Adolescents who had problem gambling also had internet addiction. The male respondents were more likely to have problem gambling than their female folk.

Well-being and academic attitudes among secondary school students living in a context of life-threatening collective violence in Northern Nigeria

Collective violence limits well-being and academic achievement among the millions of young people in low- and middle-income countries who are exposed to armed conflict, terrorism, harassment, kidnapping, and other forms of communal violence. Most past research has focused on survivors or witnesses, neglecting the much larger number of young people who live under the prolonged threat of violence. This study addressed this gap by applying the Situated Expectancy-Value Model of adolescent academic achievement. This informed predictions about the relationship between well-being and adolescents’ orientation to formal education in a context of collective violence in which schools are a special target. Over the past decade, Northern Nigeria has experienced recurring terrorist attacks and large-scale abductions of school students. Students attending public secondary schools in Northern Nigeria (n = 371; male = 45.6%, age range = 16–17; mean age = 16.7 years) completed three questionnaires that assessed four domains of well-being (body image, self-esteem, a positive social orientation, and positive emotions), the perceived value of academic learning, and two behaviours strongly related to academic achievement (persistence and engagement). Multiple regression analyses found that the four domains of well-being accounted for 70.5%, 87.3%, and 88.3% of variance in the perceived value of academic learning, academic persistence, and academic engagement, respectively. Subsequent analyses revealed that the associations between multi-dimensional well-being and both persistence and engagement were partially mediated by the perceived value of academic learning. In summary, although the observational research design precluded conclusions about the direction of effect in associations between the variables, the results are consistent with the interpretation that psychological well-being allows students to appreciate the value of academic learning, and this contributes to higher academic engagement and greater persistence on academic tasks.

Determining the Validity and Reliability of Business Studies Achievement Test for Senior Secondary Schools in Nigeria

The study aimed at ascertaining the validity and reliability of business studies achievement test for senior secondary schools in Nigeria. The study adopted an instrumentation design. The area of the study was Anambra State. The population of the study consisted of all the 23,077 students and 586 business studies teachers in two hundred and sixty-one senior secondary schools in Anambra State. Multi-stage sampling techniques involving two stages were adopted for this study. Thus proportionate stratified and purposive sampling techniques were employed at the first and second stages respectively. This was used to determine the sample size of the study, which was 630 made up of 393 students in senior secondary school one and 238 business studies teachers in Anambra State. The instrument Business Studies Acheivement Test (BSAT) was face validated by five experts, while the content validation was carried out by using a table of specifications which consisted of content areas and behavioral objectives structured after Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive domain. To generate items for Business Studies Achievement Test, the instruments were distributed to 238 business studies teachers by the researcher and his assistants in their respective schools during the 2021/2022 session. Business Studies Acheivement Test (BSAT) was used for data collection, the BSAT was a single multiple-choice objective test with an expected response of either pass (1) or fail. This helped in determining the construct validity of the instrument as well generating items for the business studies achievement test. The generated instrument was pilot tested in six secondary schools in the six educational zones in Anambra state. The developed instrument was found to be valid and reliable with an estimate of 0.96 obtained for placing students in business studies in senior secondary schools in Nigeria. Based on the findings of the study it was recommended that teachers, researchers, and relevant agencies should Relevant educational agencies, teachers, researchers should endeavor to establish the validity of any instrument they develop for any educational purpose to ensure the items are valid and relevant to the subject objective also instrument for educational purposes should be reliable, this will facilitate the better decision for students’ placement and achievement.

Research Trends in Library and Information Science in South Africa and Nigeria: A Content Analysis

Abstract A review of the research trends in library and information science (LIS) is important as it provides insight into the research practices of scholars in the field. This study investigated the research trends in master’s and doctoral research outputs relating to LIS produced in Nigeria and South Africa between 2009 and 2015 to identify the most researched subject areas and the most neglected subject areas in LIS research in the two countries. A total of 400 master’s and doctoral research outputs produced in Nigeria and South Africa were analysed by means of a qualitative content analysis, and 15 research areas were created by means of modified subject categorisation adopted from the extant literature. The findings were that the most researched subject area in both countries was human information behavior in respect of both master’s and doctoral research outputs. The least researched areas in LIS research outputs in Nigeria were archives and records management, LIS history and developments, bibliometrics, scientometrics and informatics, knowledge and information resource management. In South Africa, bibliometrics, scientometrics and informatics were the least researched areas in respect of doctoral research outputs, and LIS education and pedagogy were the least researched areas in master’s research outputs. The positivist research paradigm was more prevalent. The implication of the findings is that LIS schools in Nigeria and South Africa need to focus more on research areas that deal with current trends and challenges confronting the profession. In today’s world of work, most services are driven by information technology and research should be directed towards addressing the implementation of recent trends in the profession. Since the sample framework used for Nigeria was low, it may not be appropriate to generalise this finding to other institutions.

Instructional Materials and Quality in Public Primary Schools in Southwestern Nigeria

The study identified the instructional materials that are available and examined the level of its utilization in public primary schools in Southwestern Nigeria. In addition, it established the influence of instructional materials on instructional quality in public primary schools in Southwestern Nigeria. This study adopted descriptive design with a sample size of 450 respondents selected from the population of the study with the use of multi-stage sampling procedure. Instructional Materials Availability, Utilization and Instructional Quality Questionnaire (IMAUIQ) was used to collect data from the respondents which was trial tested on 90 respondents from selected public primary schools in local governments outside the selected ones for the study. The result revealed that chalkboard 450(100%) and textbooks 300(67%) are the predominant instructional materials available. Chalkboard 450(100%) was found to be sufficiently utilized. The result further showed that instructional materials have significantly influence on instructional quality in public primary schools in Nigeria. This is because the calculated value (4.82) is greater than the critical value (3.84) at 0.05 level of significance. The study concluded that there is inadequate utilization of instructional materials with their attendant consequences on instructional quality in public primary schools in Southwestern Nigeria.

Imperativeness of Teacher Registration Council of Nigeria on Teaching Professionalism of Teachers in Secondary School in Nigeria

This paper examines imperativeness of Teacher Registration Council of Nigeria on Teaching Professionalism of Teachers in Secondary Schools. Teacher Registration Council act as for reaching implication for the teaching profession in post primary education in Nigeria contributed meaningfully to the teaching and learning of the students. However, this reality can be appreciated by the fact the content of the TRCN Act is one and control with the contents of the Acts that established the council regulates the teaching. Presently, it is compulsory for all qualified and trained teachers to belong to the members after participated in examination and passed the examination. Yet, anyone of the teacher who does not belong to their member is not qualified to teach especially public in secondary schools in Nigeria. In addition, TRCN improves teaching in all pubic secondary schools in Nigeria. Similarly, it also improves the academic performance of students. yet, it creates room for only qualified, trained and intelligent teachers in all secondary schools. Undoubtedly, Teacher Registration Council of Nigeria make the teaching as professionalism like other fields in Nigeria. Consequently, it does not create room for non – qualified teachers to teach the students in all public secondary in Nigeria.

Relationship Among Teachers’ Occupational Interests, Job Satisfaction and Performance in Government Secondary Schools in North Central Nigeria

This study investigated the relationship among teachers’ occupational interests, job satisfaction and performance in government secondary schools in North-Central Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey design using teachers in government secondary schools in the North-Central Geopolitical zone of Nigeria. A sample size of 384 teachers comprising 153 males and 231 females participated in the study through stratified random sampling procedure. Three instruments were used for the study – Vocational Interests Inventory (VII) Job Satisfaction Inventory for Teachers (JOSIT) and Teachers Job Performance Inventory (TEJOPI). The reliability of the instruments was determined through test re-test method using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient which yielded reliability indices of 0.92, 0.84 and 0.81 for VII, JOSIT and TEJOPI respectively. One research question and three hypotheses guided the conduct of the study. Data generated was analyzed using mean scores and standard deviation for the research question. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used for hypotheses one and two while Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to test hypothesis three. The findings revealed that teachers in government secondary schools in North-Central Nigeria were dissatisfied with their jobs as reflected in the sectional mean of 2.712. The findings further revealed that a significant relationship existed between occupational interests and job satisfaction but not with job performance. The findings further indicated that there was no significant relationship between jobs satisfaction and Job performance. The researcher recommended among other measures, that government as the major employer of labour should ensure periodic improvements in the working conditions of teachers to enhance their job satisfaction and boost productivity.