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40 A comparative study of the cost-effectiveness of instructional television and conventional classroom
cinstruction in non-formal education.
41 Some Psycho-Social Predictors of motivation for the catholic priesthood in the Ibadan
Ecclesiastical province: A social worker's perspective.
42 The relationship between theory and practice in selected adult education programs in Nigeria. (1944-1974)
43 Labour Education and Industrail relations in Nigeria growth and development.
44 Evaluation of training programs for community development agents in Bendel State of Nigeria.
45 Occupational welfare programs as determinant of job-satisfaction in selected public and
private organisations in Oyo State of Nigeria.
46 The relationship between supervisory climate and quality of instruction in Oyo State continuing education.
47 Comparative cost-benefit analysis of bachelor of education sandwich and conventional degree
programmes in Ondo State
   
 
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  TITLE: A comparative study of the cost-effectiveness of instructional television and conventional
  classroom instruction in non-formal education.
AUTHOR: AKINLEYE, JAMES OLARINDE PH.D. 1988
SUPERVISOR: PROF. J.T. OKEDARA
MATRIC NO: 22269
   
  ABSTRACT
  This study compared the effectiveness of the Instructional Television and the Conventional Classroom Instruction in the teaching of economics at the extra-mural studies of the University of Ibadan. The influence of factors such as sex and age on the performance of learners was also examined. Furthermore, the rate of attendance of learners at lessons was compared for the two modes under examination. The annual average cost of the two modes were compared as well.
  In line with the objectives of the study, a pre-test-post-test experimental design was employed. a study sample of 88 Extra-mural learners, randomly selected from a population of 177 who registered for economics at the secondary level, were drawn from the four extra-mural centres in the city.
  Instruments used in the study include:
 
  • The instructional materials; the content of which is the Economics syllabus for the secondary level of Education;
 
  • The Learners Achievement Test (LAT);
 
  • The Personal Data Inventory and the Instructional Evaluation Questionnaires.
  The same instructor taught the same lesson with the same materials to equal number of learners in both the experimental and the control groups for a period of 8 weeks. Data obtained were analysed, using the t-test statistics and the chi-square where appropriate. All results were decided at 0.05 level of confidence.
The results were as follows:
 
  • Learners in both the experimental and the control groups made statistically significant gain in their knowledge of economics by learning through either the Instructional Television or the conventional classroom.
 
  • There was no significant difference between the mean scores of extra-mural learners in both the experimental and the control groups.
 
  • There was no significant difference in the means score on achievement tests in economics among male and female candidates of the extra-mural studies in both the experimental and the control groups. Also, both male and female extra-mural learners made a statistically significant gain in their knowledge of economics by learning through the ITV as well as through the CCI.
 
  • There was no significant difference in the mean scores on achievement tests in economics among extra-mural learners of different ages in both the experimental and the control groups.
 
  • There was no significant difference in the mean rate of attendance at lessons by learners in both the experimental and the control groups.
 
  • There was also no significant difference in the learners opinions about their lessons through the two modes of instruction.
  It was revealed that same cost should not be expected for the comparative analysis of the average instructional costs of the two modes of delivery. However, it was further revealed that the ITV will be cost-effective provided the system is used to capacity.
   
  The potentials of ITV to upgrade instruction, reduce time space, lower cost as well as improve access to education, which were highlighted in the study have a number of implications for decision makers in the education enterprise and the electronic media.
   
   
 
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  TITLE: Some Psycho-Social Predictors of motivation for the catholic priesthood in the
  Ibadan Ecclesiastical province: A social worker's perspective.
  AUTHOR: REV. FR. J.K. IDOWU
Dip. (Rel. Studies) Ibadan, B.A. (Phil.) Rome, B.A. (Theol.) Rome
M.A. (D. Thol.) Rome, M.A. (Rel. Ed.) Rome
M.Ed. (Guidance & Counselling) Ibadan
   
  ABSTRACT
  This research study aimed at identifying the Psycho-Social Predictors of Motivation for the Catholic Priesthood among the Minor Seminarians in Ibadan Ecclesiastical province. The Ecclesiastical province comprises the Catholic diocese of Ibadan, Oshogbo, Oyo, Ondo and Ekiti and covers Oyo, Ondo Osun and Ekiti states of Nigeria.
   
  The descriptive survey research was adopted for the study. The target population was all the 456 students at the Minor seminaries within the Ibadan Ecclesiastical province of Nigeria. A set of questionnaire on scale for Vocational Motivation of Catholic Priesthood (SVMCP) was used as the main instrument for the study. The data collected were analysed, using the Pearson Product-Movement of Correlation Coefficient and the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) at 0.05 degrees of freedom.
   
  Based on the study, the following findings were established, viz: Adequate knowledge of the theory and practice of social work by the seminarians motivates their priestly vocation; seminarians are motivated by the altruistic values, adequate job security and the good conditions of service contained in the priestly vocation. These findings have therefore necessitated a few recommendations which include: the need for priests to expose themselves to social work knowledge and skills, for their twin role as social workers within the religious and secular communities. At the same time, the ecclesiastical authorities should incorporate social work practice in the formation of future priests.
   
   
 
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  TITLE: The relationship between theory and practice in selected adult education programs in
  Nigeria.(1944-1974)
  AUTHOR: SYDNEY NWANAKPONNA OSUJI
B.ED. HONS (IBADAN)
   
  ABSTRACT
  The Theory/Practice dichotomy, or how theory and practice of education relate to each other, has been an issue of debate in educational discourse. Many people, more especially the activities, dismiss theory as a useless exercise that has no bearing on practice. On the other hand, among the people who acquiesce in the idea that theory is a necessary framework that directs practice are the extremists who view the relationship between theory and practice on a one-to-one basis. To these extremists, any theory fits into practice as hypothesized, no matter the societal, cultural, political and economic backgrounds of the consumers. It is in the light of the divergence of opinions and fuzziness surrounding relationship between theory and practice in education that this study is undertaken. The objective is to explore how theory and practice interacted with each other in selected programmes of adult education in Nigeria between 1944 and 1974, with the ultimate aim of discovering the model or models of relationship that existed between the theory and practice of adult education.
   
  In consideration of the nature of the study, the methodology used in philosophical-cum-historical. This methodological approach is thought adequate because the study requires collection of data about past educational practices, interpretation and rationalization of the data, in order to be able to abstract well-reasoned conclusions.
   
  The study is organized into six chapters. Chapter one provides a philosophical analysis of the concept ‘theory of education’, and different notions of its relationship to practice. CHAPTER Two is a survey of developments in the practice of adult education in Nigeria. Chapter Three probes the implementation of Mass Education programme, while Chapter Four investigates the translation of the theory of functional literacy into practice. In Chapter Five, the execution continuing education programmes is discussed. Chapter Six is the concluding chapter in which the factors - cultural, economic, political and social - which promoted or hindered the relationship between theory and practice in all the programmes are highlighted.
   
  Four prepositional statements are put forward in order to help the researcher have adequate focus on the subject:
  1. That the programmes studies reflected the theories of adult education in existence at the
    time
  2. Local socio-cultural factors affected the translation of theory into practice.
  3. Lack of professionally trained personnel affected the translation of theory into practice.
  4. That though theory guided the practice, yet the practice helped to reformulate theory.
  Through the examination of the propositions, the study upholds the idea that theory of education provides indispensable the guide to educational practice. But the findings support the view that the relationship between the theory and practice is mediated by situational constraints which could emanate from cultural, economic, political and social factors. In the programmes investigated, two models of relationship-namely, Direct and Symbiotic-prevailed. In the Direct Relationship Model, there was congruence between theory as conceived and the practice. But in the symbiotic Relationship Model, experiences gained during the implementation of the programmes were used to reformulate the theory to suit the aspirations of the consuming society.
   
 
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  TITLE: Labour Education and Industrail relations in Nigeria growth and development.
  AUTHOR: MORAKINYO AJILEYE LANREWAJU OMOLE
B.ED. HONS, DIP, IN ADULT EDUCATION,
M.PHIL. (IBADAN)
   
  ABSTRACT
  The study examines the growth and development of labour education in the country with reference to industrial relations from the passing of the Trade Union Ordinance in 1938 under the following headings:
  (i) Early efforts in the promotion of labour education and the part played by the then Central
    labour Organisations.
  (ii) Efforts of the government at its agencies, particularly the Universities, in the promotion of
    labour education.
  (iii) Early efforts of the unions and their efforts after the restructuring.
  (iv) The contributions of International Trade Union agencies to labour education in the country.
     
  For the study the historical method was adopted and records, both written and unwritten, at the archives and at the union offices were used. These were complemented with interviews from actual participants in industrial relations and labour education. The final outcome of the study is divided into eight chapters.
   
  Chapter One examines the beginning of industrial relations, through the passing of the 1938 Trade Union Ordinance to the restructuring exercise of 1976. In Chapter Two an attempt is made to look at some related literature particularly those aspects that touch on labour education. The Chapter also deliminates the scope of the study.
   
  Chapter Three is devoted to early efforts at labour education and aspects discussed include the problems of the union, their ideological differencies which led to proliferation of central labour organisations and how all these influenced labour education in the country. Chapter four discusses the policy of the government from the inception of industrial relations.
   
  In Chapter Five, the efforts of the trade unions in the area of labour education are examined with particular reference to finance, organization of courses and prospects of labour education as a result of the improvement in the conditions of the union. Chapter Six focuses attention on the activities of the international trade unions with particular emphasis on the contributions of the W.F.T.U. the I.C.F. T.U. and the I.L.O.
   
  Chapter Seven discusses the advantages derivable from labour education and the impact of labour education. The last Chapter which is also the concluding one, highlights areas for further research.
   
   
 
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  TITLE: Evaluation of training programs for community development agents in Bendel State of
  Nigeria.
  AUTHOR: AKPOVIRE BOVADJERA ODUARAN
B.ED. (BENIN), M.A. (IFE)
   
  ABSTRACT
  This study was the first externally conducted evaluation of the Community Development (CD) agents training programmes in Bendel State. It was designed to assess the programme objectives, selection procedures, training techniques and the discrepancy between quantity of facilities and the staff available and required. The other major objective was to investigate the effectiveness of the Community Development (CD) agents training programmes as perceived by the trainees, trainers, sponsors and community leaders.
   
  The evaluation study became necessary because since the inception of the Community Development (hereinafter referred to as CD) agents training programmes in the State, on known elaborate external evaluation had been done on the implementation o the programmes; and this was what the present study sought to do. The study was focused on two of the four regular CD agents training programmes in the State, namely the Centre for Community Development Education, Benin City (herein after referred to as programme A) and the Rural Development Training Centre, Benin City (hereinafter referred to as programme B).
   
  To achieve the objectives of the study, then, thirteen orienting questions were formulated.
  The sample size was 427 persons; this is made up of 288 community leaders, 10 sponsors, 37 trainers, 90 trainees and 2 directors.
Data were collected with the aid of the following:
  1. The Directors’ Questionnaire (DQ);
  2. The Instructors’ Questionnaire (DQ);
  3. Trainees, Trainers, Sponsors and Community Leaders’ Questionnaire (TTSCLQ);
  4. Scrutiny of programme documents;
  5. Government records; and
  6. Unstructured interview and free discussion with trainees, trainers and some top government
    officials in the Community Development Division of the State’s Ministry of Local
    Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.
  The data collected were analysed using simple content analysis, frequencies and percentages, the t-test and the analysis of variance statistics.
  The major findings of the study were as follows:
  1. Most of the training programme objectives were being achieved.
  2. Trainees’ selection procedures were being properly adopted by the operators of the
    training programmes.
  3. More part-time than full-time academic staff were being used as trainers.
  4. The implementation of the training programmes was affected by inadequate provision of
    accommodation, facilities and equipment.
  5. Although appropriate training techniques were used by the trainers, there was no
    uniformity in the pattern and frequency of their usage.
  6. Trainees, trainers, sponsors and community leaders perceived the training programmes to
    be effective.
  7. Significant difference existed in the community leaders perceived effectiveness of the two
    training programmes.
  8. Trainers’ length of involvement in CD work had no significant effect on the perceived
    effectiveness of the training programmes
  9. Sponsors’ length of involvement in CD work had no significant effect on the perceived
    effectiveness of the training programmes ‘B’.
  10. Community leaders’ length of involvement in CD work had no significant effect on the
    perceived effectiveness of the training programmes ‘A’ and ‘B’.
  11. There was no significant discrepancy in the sponsors’, trainees’ trainers’ and community l
    leaders’ perceived effectiveness of the training programmes ‘A’; but the reverse was the
    case for training programme 'B’.
  Other findings were that:
  1. Lack of well-stocked libraries was perhaps the most serious problem of facilities shortage
    facing both training programmes.
  2. Most of the trainees were contented with the quality of instructions.
  3. Graduates from the training programmes and avenues for further academic pursuits.
  Possible explanations of these findings were offered.
  On the basis of the findings, the following recommendations were made:
  1. More full-time academic staff should be provided.
  2. Sufficient accommodation and facilities and equipment should be provided.
  3. Regular workshops at which the trainers review their training techniques and develop new
    instructional materials should be organised.
  4. More avenues for the interaction between trainers and community leaders should be
    created.
  5. Steps should be taken to sell the credibility of the diploma and certificate awarded by the
    centres to other Nigerian University to further expand the venues for the academic
    advancement of the graduates.
  6. More regular in-house evaluative studies should be undertaken in both training
    programmes.
   
   
 
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  Occupational welfare programs as determinant of job-satisfaction in selected public and
  private organisations in Oyo State of Nigeria.
 

AUTHOR: ISAAC ADEBAYO AKINOLA
B.SC. (HON.) PSYCHOLOGY, (IBADAN)
 M.ED. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS/EDUCATION, (IBADAN),
POST-GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN SOCIAL WORK, (PENNSYLVANIA)

   
  ABSTRACT
  The study examined the effects of occupational welfare programmes on job satisfaction randomly selected work organizations of both public and private sectors in Oyo State of Nigeria. The descriptive survey research design was employed for the study. A total of 400 workers were randomly selected as subjects for this study out of a population of 4457. A set of questionnaires designed using a five points likert scale was used as the instrument for this study; namely, the Industrial Staffer Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (ISJSQ), the Structured Interview, and the Workers Welfare Questionnaire, (WWQ).
   
  Seven null hypotheses were postulated. The data colleted were analysed using a set of statistical tools like percentages, Chi-square (X2), T-test, and Pearson Product Moment Correction (r) at 0.05 level of confidence. The study established the following:
  (i) There was a significant difference in the level of job satisfaction among workers in both
    public and private establishment.
  (ii) There was no significant difference in Management staff knowledge of occupational
    welfare programmes as a means of promoting job satisfaction in public and private
    establishments;
  (iii) There was a significant difference in the level of job satisfaction among workers in both
    public and private establishments;
  (iv) There was no significant difference in management and staff belief in occupational
    welfare programmes as a means in both public and private organisations;
  (v) There was a significant difference between determinants of job satisfaction among
    workers in both public and private organisations;
  (vi) There was a significant correlation between occupational welfare programmes and job
    satisfaction among workers in public and private establishments.
  Based on these findings, the researchers established that Occupational Welfare Programmes in work organisation lead to job satisfaction with positive externalities on workers efficacy, productivity and commitment. The introduction of occupational welfare programmes in all work organisations (public/private) should be strengthened and enriched to cater for the psycho-social and economic needs of workers; and introduced where they are not.
   
  They management and staff of organisations should be encouraged to be conversant with the concept, knowledge and content of occupational welfare programmes as they affect their workers. There is need for further research efforts in this direction using a larger scope.
   
   
 
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  TITLE: The relationship between supervisory climate and quality of instruction in Oyo State
  continuing education.
  AUTHOR: DEBORAH ADETUNBI EGUNYOMI (MRS.)
N.C.E. (ILORIN), B.ED, M.ED. (IBADAN)
   
  ABSTRACT
  There has been an increasing awareness of the persistent problem of improving quality of education for learners at formal and non-formal levels in Nigeria in recent times. This has given rise to more attention being focused on within-school instructional supervision and supervisor-supervisee interaction. Although studies in many countries have revealed that the quality of instruction is a product of appropriate instructional supervisory behaviour, such studies are surprisingly scanty in Nigeria.
   
  The purpose of this study therefore, is to examine the type of climate created during the supervisor-supervisee interaction and its impact on the quality of instruction (measured by the performance of learners) in Oyo State Continuing Education Centres. The supervisors in this study are the proprietors and the organisers while the supervisees are the tutors.
   
  The research involved 20 averagely large Continuing Education Centres with a minimum population of 500 learners with a wide curriculum offering and having been operating specified subject-group for at least 3 years. The centres were randomly selected from all the 4 educational zones and 12 of the 24 Local Government Areas of the state. Two research instruments were used; namely, the supervisory climate Questionnaire (SCQ) and the Quality of Instruction Tests (IQT). A pilot study was conducted to standardize the instruments and to ensure their validity and reliability. The Analysis of Variance (Anova) F-Ratio and multiple step-wise regression statistics were used to test the study hypotheses.
The major findings of this study are:
  1. The organiser-tutor relationship is more cordial than the proprietor-tutor relationship in
    fostering the quality of instruction.
  2. An “open” supervisory climate interaction between supervisors-supervisees is more
    positively related to the quality of instruction than the “closed”
  3. The supervisors interact much less with the supervisees at the professional dimension and
    much more at the personal dimension.
  4. Tutor’s qualification is one of the most effective personal variables in enhancing the quality
    of instruction.
   
  The findings suggest that emphasis should be placed on improving the professional relationship between the supervisors and the supervisees in an attempt to effect tutors disposition to quality of instruction. The results of the study also show the important role of the organiser in enhancing the quality of instruction and argue strongly for the establishment of functional Continuing Education Centres manned by academically qualified professional tutors. Furthermore, the study points out the need to develop a less controversial and more reliable methodology for conducting non-experimental research involving interpersonal relationships and attitudes in educational institutions. There is need for further research to establish the impact of learners variables on quality of instruction.
   
   
   
 
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  TITTLE: Comparative cost-benefit analysis of bachelor of education sandwich and
  conventional degree programs in Ondo State.
  AUTHOR: BORODE MATTHEW
B.ED, MED. (IBADAN)
   
  ABSTRACT
  This work set out to: (i) analyse the cost and benefit of B.Ed sandwich course as well as that of conventional degree programme; (ii) find out whether the B.Ed sandwich programme is a chseaper alternative to the conventional B.Ed programme for both the society and the individuals; and (iii) determine the economic returns for both sandwich and the conventional programmes.
   
  The target population comprises: undergraduate B.Ed students of both conventional and sandwich programmes in Ondo State University, Ado-Ekiti. This population is made up of 1,800 sandwich and 929 conventional students. Seventy per cent (70%) of this population was selected using simple random sampling technique.
   
  Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Two sets of questionnaire using 4 point-linkert scale were used for the study. These were complemented with oral interviews, extraction and analysis of available records from the State Teaching Service Board. The net present value for the analysis of data collected.
Bases on the analysis of the data, the following were established:
 
  • The total private and social costs of the conventional Bachelor of Education degree were consistently greater than those of the Sandwich programme at Ondo State University for the students generation that gradated in 1992/93.
 
  • The study also established that the economic returns viz. both social and private benefits of Sandwich programme were consistently greater than those of the conventional B.Ed. programme of Ondo State University.
  Based on the findings, the following recommendation are made:
 
  • Government should encourage their deserving teachers to participate in the sandwich B.Ed programme where study leave with pay cannot be guaranteed for serving teachers ton increase their efficiency and productivity.
 
  • Government should recognize the contribution of graduates of the sandwich programme to the overall development of the education sector of the state without any cost to the government by giving incentives through bursary award and enhanced salary to compensate for the additional qualifications acquired.
   
   
 
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