The study seeks to explore certain variables necessary for the provision of quality science learning in Rivers State. Two sets of questionnaires tagged; “Questionnaire on Quality Science Teaching in Secondary Schools (QQSTSS) and Science Laboratory Apparatus Observational Checkli...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/9826
This study investigated the influence of cultural practice-related misconceptions on achievement among Biology students of senior secondary schools in Zone C of Benue State in central Nigeria using the survey design. A multi-stage method was used to select the sample of 2,879 SS3...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/11163
Aims: To investigate the effects of a theory-based treatment (active control condition) addressing social-cognitive constructs on healthy lifestyle behaviors, and whether additional effects would occur if additional practical exercises with yoga, meditation, and homework to impro...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/12284
The study aimed at investigating the relationship between upper basic pupils’ study habits and their academic performance in English Language in Calabar Education Zone of Cross River State, Nigeria. In order to achieve the objective of this study, three null hypotheses were formu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/4025
This paper discusses the role and impacts of resource availability in driving rural development in Nigeria. Particular emphasis is focused on understanding how the availability of specific resources in Nigeria’s rural areas have shaped policy discourses, initiation and implementa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/11280
This study concerns the effects of Concept Mapping-Guided Discovery Integrated Teaching Approach on the Learning Style and Achievement of chemistry students. The sample comprised 162 Senior Secondary School (SS 2) students drawn from two Science Schools in Nasarawa State, Nigeria...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/11596
Aims: To investigate the role of information technology in optimizing and increasing the efficiency of the teaching of motor habits and skills. Study design: A controlled educational experiment. Place and Duration of Study: Longitudinal research took place during the period 2009-...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/8935
This study employed logistic and linear regression to determine strength of influence of grade point average (GPA), correlation course which is an intervention program offered in the University of Mindanao, Philippines, and the subject clusters of a board exam for admission to th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/11343
Examination, an integral part of the teaching and learning process, has been used for ages as a means of ascertaining the status of achievement of individual learners. However, for some time now, some individuals have avoided the rigours of study and instead depended on fraudulen...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/11162
The development of the oral proficiency of EFL learners is facilitated when conversation textbooks contain two key features: contextualization and realism. The seven critical guidelines for the selection of such textbooks are the students' backgrounds, meaningful activities, cult...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/11920
Many Japanese people in modern society experience stress that may contribute to various kinds of diseases, sometimes resulting in death. One important source of stress comes from an excessive need for approval from others, or sekentei. Recent evidence has shown that ikigai, i.e.,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/4189
Aims: With the rapid expansion of Hong Kong’s higher education sector since the evolution of its knowledge-based economy in the 1980’s, the size and number of government-funded and self-funded higher education institutions in Hong Kong has increased substantially. With the launch...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/11312
This work proposes: 1. to identify the complex nature of the common sense phenomenon, 2. to elaborate a pattern of the psychological and psycho-social structure of common sense, 3. to conceptualise the process of formation and education of common sense. All over the work there ar...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/11266
Aims: The aim of this paper is to explore the extent of information communication technology (ICT) use in University of Tripoli, Libya. Study Design: Qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews with forty four graduate students and eleven academic from Universit...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/8655
Ghana signed to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) also known as the 1973 Washington Convention in 1975. The signing of the CITES demonstrated her commitment to the protection of the environment. It was timely because it ca...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2014/9479