Students In Tertiary Institutions Research Articles

Assessment of The Trend of Rental Returns on Private Hostel Investment in Neighbourhoods of Public Tertiary Institutions in Anambra State (2011-2022)

The increasing number of students in public tertiary institutions in Anambra state has prompted serious accommodation problems and on-campus hostels can no longer cope with the attendant demand. The high rate of demand for housing by students led to the development of private accommodation known as hostels or lodges around these institutions of higher learning. Establishment of private hostels requires huge capital outlay; hence, investors need to have a fair idea of returns from such investment before committing their resources. This research aims to assess the trend of rental returns from private hostels investment in selected neighbourhoods of public tertiary institutions in Anambra state from 2011 – 2022. The study adopts stratified sampling technique that represents the entire population. Data for the study were elicited Estate Surveyors and Valuers practicing in Anambra state through the use of structured questionnaire, and analyzed using tables, graphs and trend analysis. The study indicated that the trend of rental returns of private hostels shows a steady increase in all locations over the study period. The study recommends that intending investors should consult real estate professionals for investment advice before delving into hostel property development, and they should also consider public private partnership (PPP) contractual arrangements such as Design Build Operate and Transfer (DBOT) in hostel development.

E-Course Adviser for Students in Tertiary Institutions: An Expert System Design Approach

Course adviser in tertiary institution guides students on course enrolment which is part of the registration process for students. It is a phase where a student formally enrolls for requisite courses in a particular semester. Students on gaining admission are required to enroll into courses offered in their chosen programme of study every semester progressively with certain credit limits in each semester. The courses are arranged in an ascending order of complexity such that the criterion for registering for a higher course is to have passed the lower prerequisite course(s). Academic advisers are appointed for students to guide them on course enrolment but due to human factor, a lot of students end up registering for inappropriate courses which leads to inefficiency in career. This research work developed a model that classifies students as either “registrable” Or “not registerable”. Multi-layered Feedforward Neural Networks was used to develop the model that will classify students. The dataset used consists of 150 records, 4 input layers, one hidden layer, and 1output layer. The train/test split of the dataset was in the ration of 80:20. The Networks was trained for 2000 epochs. The accuracy of the model was 0.97. If a student fails more than 15 credit hours of registered courses, such student will be considered “not registerable” and hence redirected to the expert adviser for proper guidance on the course(s) to register.

What is the Impact of Sexual Harassment on the Wellbeing Tertiary Institution Students?

What is the Impact of Sexual Harassment on the Wellbeing Tertiary Institution Students?

The Effect of Coronavirus on Undergraduate Students in the Gauteng Province of South Africa during 2020-2022: An Interdisciplinary Assessment

The coronavirus pandemic has affected almost every aspect of human life across the entire globe, including tertiary education. This interdisciplinary study explored how undergraduate students in tertiary institutions located in Gauteng Province of South Africa experienced and coped with the effects of the pandemic between the 2020 to 2022 academic years. The article used the Rites of Passage Concept to interpret how they transitioned from in-person learning to online learning, and from the latter to hybrid learning. It then used psychological concepts of self-efficacy, self-regulation and self-control to illustrate how they motivated themselves to continue pursuing their academic studies. To conduct this phenomenological study, the researchers used participatory observation and in-depth interviews to collect data over a three-year period. They then employed concepts from anthropology and psychology to interpret the students’ experience. While recognizing its limited scope, the researchers argued that the study was able to illustrate the symbiotic relationship between anthropology and psychology in social scientific research. It is their hope that the findings of this study contribute to existing scholarship in the field of humanities concerning stressors and coping strategies. Keywords: Interdisciplinary Study, COVID-19, Concept of the Rites of Passage, Coping Strategies

Acceptance of IoT Technology among Students and Staff of Tertiary Institutions in Kaduna State, Nigeria

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the billions of physical devices that are now connected to the internet, collecting and sharing data all over the world. IoT has permeated almost every aspect of human life in recent times, encompassing cities, houses, tertiary institutions, production plants, businesses, agriculture, hospitals, and medical centers. Africa is currently experiencing a delayed adoption of technology particularly IoT technology in the educational sector. Nigeria has immense IoT potential. If it is properly implemented, will likely result in enhanced productivity across all economic sectors, and a higher standard of living for the people. The impact of IoT in Nigeria, however, is not obvious this could likely be due to poor knowledge, poverty, insufficiency and lack of electricity especially in rural areas, religion, corruption, government policy, and the like. User acceptability is essential for the successful adoption of any information technology (IT) or information system. This study investigated the behavioral intentions of students and staff at tertiary institutions in Kaduna metropolis to adopt IoT technology for educational purposes. Also to check how strong the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) predictors were in predicting students and staff willingness to embrace IoT technology. The data was collected from 300 respondents through the use of an online questionnaire (google form). SPSS 25 and AMOS 26 were the statistical tools utilized to capture and evaluate the questionnaire data. Based on the research theoretical model and the research hypothesis, the empirical findings suggest that the factors of Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy, and Facilitating Condition positively influence Behavioral Intentions to use IoT technology, whereas Social Influence has no positive influence on Behavioral Intentions to use IoT technology for educational purposes in tertiary institutions in Kaduna state metropolis.

Factors Associated With Sleeping Quality and Behaviors Among University Students in Malaysia

Background and Objective Sleep is an important physiological process for humans. Students of tertiary institutions, especially those at the university, are often reported to have poor sleep quality due to changing social opportunities and increasing academic demands. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of poor sleeping quality and its relationship with academic performance and psychological distress among university students in Malaysia.Methods An online questionnaire-based, cross-sectional study was conducted among students of tertiary institutions in Malaysia. The questionnaire consisted of respondents’ demographics, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), Horne-Ostberg Morningness-Eveningness Scale (MES) and Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scales (DASS-21). Simple and multiple linear regression were used to identify the relationship between the independent and dependent variables (PSQI score and MES score).Results Of the 403 respondents, about three-fourths were poor-quality sleepers. The cumulative grade point average (CGPA) was the only factor with a significant linear and positive relationship with the PSQI score. Only the depression and anxiety scores showed a significant linear and positive relationship between the PSQI score and the MES score.Conclusions Poor sleep quality was prevalent among university students. Poor sleep was associated with better academic performance. Students with depression or anxiety were significantly associated with poor sleep quality and being a morning bird.

The Effect of Motivation for Learning Among High School Students and Undergraduate Students—A Comparative Study

The current study was designed to identity if and to what extent differences in motivation exist between high school students, for whom school is mandatory, and undergraduate students in tertiary institutions, who make an active choice to study in an academic institution. This study also explores whether and to what extent motivation affects the achievements of these two groups of learners, and whether motivation is related to their personal, family, and socio-economic background and gender. To examine these questions, 121 participants responded to a 22-item questionnaire on motivation for learning. Findings show that undergraduate students are more highly motivated for learning compared to high school students. Associations were found between learners’ personal and academic background and their motivation: Motivation increases with age and as grade average increases. A significant difference was, however, found in motivation levels between learners with average socio-economic status and learners with above-average socio-economic status. No gender effects in learners’ motivation were found. Findings of the study shed light on the significant of motivation in high school, which is a significant period in youngsters’ lives. High school is a scholastic space that also has the potential to strengthen motivation for learning in the future, in academic studies, as both education systems – high school and academic education – affect each other.

The Role of Pedagogy Assistance in Increasing Prospective Student Self-Efficacy in College Preparation

In the concept of lifelong education, there are certain principles that underlie various exercises, activities and engagements that can be considered as a contribution to values education, and these will form the basis for lifelong education programs and activities. Learning in lifelong education is recognized in different forms at each age stage and can contribute to their desire to enhance personal development and creativity as they age. This lifelong education is a contribution to opening up and increasing sophistication in broadening the understanding of certain values for all students, during their study period. Lifelong education seeks to explore ways and means by which students can be encouraged to develop and grow well as individual beings and social agents, throughout their lives. In the process of lifelong learning, parents as individuals can obtain information and knowledge informally during their lives as parents. Parents as two individuals who generally have biological and psychological attachments, and have material responsibility for children's education, have an important role in determining the steps of children's education. For this reason, the knowledge that parents have about education majors and career planning will greatly help children as prospective students in tertiary institutions to consider the best education they will take to achieve the careers that have been planned beforehand. There are several other considerations that support research related to methods of increasing parental knowledge about colleges and careers for children's career planning, namely a great opportunity for parents to continue learning so they can direct and plan their children's future careers appropriately and accordingly. This is closely related to the principle of lifelong education. This research will be conducted using a qualitative research approach. This approach is commonly used to view human behavior as having its own meaning and implications. Through this approach, the author wants to see how the influence of knowledge possessed by parents about college and career can help children plan their future career properly and precisely.

Determination and Utilization of Mentoring and Scaffolding Mechanisms by Lecturers for Teaching Vocational Agricultural Education to Students in Tertiary Institutions of Taraba State, Nigeria

The study was to determine the utilization of mentoring and scaffolding techniques by lecturers for teaching Vocational Agricultural Education to students in Tertiary Institutions in Taraba State. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Four research questions guided the study. The areas of the study were the Tertiary Institutions in Taraba State that offer Vocational Agriculture. The institutions include; College of Education, Zing, Taraba State University Jalingo, College of Agriculture Science and Technology and Federal University Wukari. The population of the study was 200 lecturers of Vocational Agriculture from which a sample of 132 were drawn by stratified random sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire named “Mentoring and Scaffolding Utilization Mechanisms Questionnaire” (MSUQ). Five experts in vocational agriculture validated the instrument for data collection and was trial tested. A Cronbach Alpha coefficient of 0.80 was established after analyzing the trial testing of the instrument. The Cronbach Alpha coefficient of 0.80 was high enough and indicates that the MSUQ was reliable to elicit information for the study. One hundred and thirty-two copies (132) of the questionnaire were administered on the respondents with the help of research assistant in each of the institutions. The research assistants were able to retrieve 100% of the questionnaire administered. The data collected were analyzed using weighted mean and standard deviation to answer the four research questions. The result revealed that the ten mentoring techniques presented were accepted by the lecturers as mechanism for teaching Vocational Agriculture. So also, the seven scaffolding techniques were accepted by them. Furthermore, the result showed that the utilization of mentoring and scaffolding techniques were not impressive as the utilization falls below 30% of the techniques presented to the respondents. Techniques not utilized for mentoring among other include: friendliness to learners, approachable to learners, give feedback to learners while those techniques not utilized for scaffolding among others include; activate prior knowledge, learner participation, provide support as learners learn, pre-teach vocabulary. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that lecturers of Vocational Agriculture should sustain the techniques of mentoring and scaffolding while proprietors of the institutions are to motivate the lecturers to attend seminars, conferences and workshops on utilization of mentoring and scaffolding techniques to bring about the required learning of vocational agriculture by students in the tertiary Institutions in Taraba State.

Service Quality, Price and Consumer Switching Behaviour in The Nigerian Telecommunication Industry, Moderating Effect of Value Added Services on the Relationship

The main objective of this study is to examine the Determinants of consumer switching behaviour in Nigerian telecommunication industry, the moderating role of value added services. Data were collected from the students of tertiary institutions in Borno state, North eastern Nigeria using a cross-sectional study design. The study adopted Kriejcie and Morgan (1970) rule of thumb and arrived at 382 respondents and questionnaires were distributed and collected through the personally-administered method. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to test the study hypothesis. This study finds that Value Added Services have significant influence on consumer switching behaviour, while Service Quality and Price have no significant influence on consumer switching behaviour, it also finds that value added services does not moderate the relationship between service quality, price and consumer switching behaviour. The results of this study provide important insights to managers, mobile operators and researchers to further understand the factors that influence consumers to switch from one service provider to another in the Nigerian telecommunication industry. Mobile operators should concentrate on factors like value added services so as to attract more customers to their network.

The Impact of Social Media Use on the Academic Performance of Students of Private Tertiary Institutions in Ghana: The Valley View University Perspective

This paper examines the impact of social media use on the academic performance of students in private tertiary institutions in Ghana. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The Valley View University, Oyibi Campus, Accra, was used as a case study. The population for the study was 2,172. The simple random sampling technique was used to sample 388 students. The questionnaire was used to solicit data for the study. 388 copies of the questionnaire were administered to the students. However, 362 copies were filled correctly and used for the analysis. The data were analysed using the IBM Statistical Product and Service Solutions (IBM-SPSS) version 22.0. The findings revealed that entertainment and relaxation, posting pictures and chatting with friends were students' motivators for social media use. The study found out that the frequent use of social media had negatively affected the academic performance of some students. The study recommended that the Management of the University should motivate students to use the various social media platforms for educational activities rather than non-academic ones. The study also suggested that students should be advised to reduce the number of hours spent on social media platforms.

Exploring Problematic Use of Mobile Internet in a Nigerian University

The study identified the prevalent ways by which students experience problematic use of mobile internet. It determined the level of problematic use of mobile internet experienced by the undergraduates of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Nigeria. It also investigated factors that may predict problematic use of mobile internet among the students. The study employs a survey research design to obtain data from 201 undergraduates selected by randomly from faculty colloquiums during the 2012/2013 session. A self-constructed questionnaire comprising items adapted from Demetrovics, Szeredi, and Rózsa (2008) was used to collect data from the respondents. Data collected were analysed using frequency, percentages, Relative significance index, Multiple regression, t-test and ANOVA. The results indicated that the prevalent ways by which students experience problematic use of mobile internet was in terms of feeling tense, irritated, or stressed when they cannot use their mobile internet for several days (RSI = 0.738). 17.9% of the participant experienced no problematic use of mobile internet while 27.4%, 45.3% and 9.5% of the participants have experienced low, high, and debilitating levels of mobile internet respectively. Also, there was no significant difference in the problematic use of mobile internet experienced by students at different academic levels in the university (F = 2.385, p=0.071). The study concluded that tertiary institution students are very susceptible to problematic use of mobile internet. Keywords: Mobile internet; Problematic use; Internet addiction; Undergraduates; University. DOI: 10.7176/JEP/14-6-09 Publication date: February 28 th 2023

Students’ Preferences Regarding the Techniques of Oral Corrective Feedback in a Tertiary Institution

Oral corrective feedback (OCF) is an important topic for English as a second/foreign language (ESL/EFL) teachers involved in foreign language acquisition. Several studies have been conducted on OCF in learning and teaching English. Although there are extensive published studies on OCF in Thailand, to the best of my knowledge, little research has been conducted on the sources of OCF in tertiary institutions in southern Thailand. The current study bridges this research gap by investigating students’ preferences regarding the sources of error of OCF at a Thai university in the southern province of Thailand. A questionnaire was designed using six five-point Likert scale questions, and data were also collected through observation. Participants were 60 undergraduate students from a tertiary institution in southern Thailand. Analysis of student responses was carried out using mean and standard deviation statistics. The findings from this study reveal that the participants preferred that the teacher point out their errors rather than themselves or their peers. In addition, participants chose error correction by their teachers above peer or self-correction. Although the students who participated in this study preferred the teacher’s feedback to their peers, some were open to being trained in self-correction. The value of this study is that the findings may assist both teachers and students in error identification and correction and serve as the first step in ensuring that students in tertiary institutions in Thailand are more confident in expressing themselves using the English language. Future studies can be carried out to explore the preferences of students from other Thai regions.

The impact of internet use on tertiary institution students’ academic performance: An exploratory study

This study investigates the impact of internet use on tertiary institution students’ academic performance (AP). The objectives of the study are to ascertain the impact of internet usage on the AP of students in tertiary institutions, find out some of the difficulties encountered in the utilization of the internet by students in tertiary institutions, and determine some of the benefits of internet usage to students in tertiary institutions. The sample size for this research consists of 300 students whose data were collected through the administration of questionnaires. The study employed the survey research method and the Chi-square (X2) method to analyse and test the various hypotheses formulated. Findings from the study show that there is a significant relationship between internet usage and the AP of students in tertiary institutions. Even though internet usage makes work faster and easier, there are various difficulties encountered in the utilization of the internet by students in tertiary institutions, and the study recommends some ways that will assist to mitigating these difficulties, as well as ways to improving internet use by tertiary institution students. Keywords: Academic performance, Institution, Learning, Student, Teaching

Perceived potential of web2.0 technologies in agriculture among agricultural students in tertiary institutions of Osun State, Nigeria

Perceived potential of web2.0 technologies in agriculture among agricultural students in tertiary institutions of Osun State, Nigeria

Implementation of Strengthening Integrity Character Education in Pancasila and Citizenship Education Learning for STIE Indragiri Rengat Management Study Program Students

The purpose of this study was to analyze the implementation of strengthening integrity character education in learning Pancasila and civics education for Management Study Program students at STIE-I Rengat. Pancasila and Citizenship Education is one of the basic general subjects in tertiary institutions which is the leading sector in the implementation of strengthening student integrity character education. However, in reality the Pancasila and Citizenship courses have not been optimal in carrying out this role because the processes that occur are still oriented towards cognitive achievement. In fact, Pancasila and civics education courses have not been successful enough to carry out this role properly because the processes that occur in educational learning are only activated in achievement, affective/attitude management is ignored. To overcome this, it is necessary to examine modifications in educational learning, one of which is by integrating the concept of character into its development so that it is better able to develop and shape the character of students in tertiary institutions, especially students of Management Study Program, STIE-I Rengat.

Factors Affecting the Utilization of E-Resources Among Undergraduate Students of Tertiary Institutions in Kebbi State

Factors Affecting the Utilization of E-Resources Among Undergraduate Students of Tertiary Institutions in Kebbi State

Some Social Predictors of Gamophobia Among Unmarried Postgraduate Students in Tertiary Institutions in Rivers State

This study was carried out to determine some social predictors of gamophobia among unmarried postgraduate students of Universities in Rivers State. To achieve this aim, three specific objectives were formulated and transformed into three research questions and three corresponding hypotheses. Consequently, correlational design was adopted and two instruments titled Gamophobic Behaviour Inventory (GBI) and Psychosocial Variable Questionnaire (PVQ) which were well validated and had reliability coefficients of 0.76 and 0.86 respectively through Cronbach Alpha. The sample of the study included 522 unmarried postgraduate students carefully and purposefully identified for the study. Furthermore, in both research questions and hypotheses, predictive relationship of the variables was the focus, therefore simple regression statistic and analysis of variance (ANOVA) associated with it were used to answer the research questions and test the tenability of the stated null hypotheses respectively at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the study revealed that two out of the three variables significantly predicted gamophobia among unmarried postgraduate students of Universities in Rivers state. The variables were masturbation (p=.009<.05) and parental marital background (p=.000<.05). On the other hand, mate sellection preference (p=.793>.05) was not a significant predictor of gamophobia among unmarried postgraduate students of universities in Rivers state. Based on these findings it was recommended among others that in the area of marriage, pre-marital counselling and counsellors should be made available to as many unmarried adults as possible. This is because many other things influence love. Adult men and women should be taught to give attention to such factors as masturbation, parental marital background etc. to avoid breaking each other ‘s heart culminating in nuptial-phobia or gamophobia.

Understanding phishing awareness among students in tertiary institutions and setting-up defensive mechanisms against the attackers

The average loss by companies to phishing in 2021 is $14.8 million, more than triple what it was in 2015. That translates to hundreds of billions of dollars in total losses from phishing attacks on global businesses, and the vulnerability of these attacks is every day increasing, particularly among the younger generation less than 40 years of age. This paper begins with a background exposition on phishing trends and highlights previous findings concerning users' susceptibility to phishing attacks. It however explores the term Phishing itself, its kinds, types and some basic measures necessary for defense against phishing activities. The research was employed with a major focus on the email aspect of phishing. Alongside the website aspect of phishing, the certificate of a website was also considered. The purpose of this study was to identify the level of student awareness related to specific phishing tactics. Findings revealed that while students are unlikely to provide personal information in response to an email/SMS request, they can be easily tricked by numerous other tactics. This paper reports the findings of the study in addition to listing suggested points to employ for creating phishing awareness.

Breakfast intake and associated factors and barriers among tertiary institution students in the Western Region, Ghana

BackgroundBreakfast is considered the day’s most important meal. Skipping breakfast consumption is detrimental to health and intellectual performance. University life has tight schedules and rigorous intellectual activities often very early in the morning. This study aimed at assessing breakfast intake and its associated factors among the students of Takoradi Technical University (TTU).MethodsThis was a descriptive cross-sectional study. Data was collected from 347 students in TTU using pre-tested questionnaire. Data collected were analysed using STATA v17. It employed descriptive and inferential statistics such as logistic regression. P-value less than 0.05 was set as statistical significance at 95% confidence interval.ResultsRegular breakfast was taken by 35.7% of the students. Higher odds of regular breakfast intake were found among respondents aged 25–29 years (AOR = 3.13, 95%CI = 1.57–6.24) and those who buy their breakfast (AOR = 5.13, 95%CI = 2.16–12.19). However, lower odds of regular breakfast consumption were found among respondents who were females (AOR = 0.40, 95%CI = 0.18–0.85). Barriers to regular breakfast intake included negative mood, insufficient funds, health condition, weight management, religious reasons such as fasting, limited time/unfavourable academic schedules, daily activities/workload, and cost of food on campus.ConclusionThe study stressed on the need for external and personal factors such as sex, age, religion, limited time/unfavourable academic schedules among others that hinder habitual breakfast intake to be addressed adopting innovative approach such as peer education and campaigns. University management should implement favourable policies on academic schedules, canteens/cafeterias, less stringent regulation on cooking at halls of residence.