Browsing by Author "Adikwu, James Musa"

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    Challenges of Entrepreneurship Education in Nigerian Universities: towards Repositioning for Impact, Evidence from Nasarawa State University, Keffi
    (Department of Educational Foundations, Nasarawa State University, 2018-02-22) Allahnana, Kwanza Maikudi; Adikwu, James Musa; Labaran, Sarki Ibrahim
    The entrepreneurship education is a relatively new phenomenon in Nigerian Universities. It is a course that was introduced into the undergraduate curriculum of University students in Nigeria in 2006. The focus was to equip graduates with requisite skills for entrepreneurial success after school. The overarching objective of the program was to reduce youths unemployment; especially among school leavers, in Nigeria. Over the years, while graduates unemployment has not abated, there is a growing national discontentment on the socio-economic relevance of the course in Nigeria education. This inability to meet its introduction objectives has led to many uncoordinated revisions and changes in the pedagogical structure of the curricula over the years. To reposition entrepreneurial education for impact, there is a need to critically and comprehensively review implementation challenges as reported over time. The study adopted a review methodology approach of extant literatures and publications in the last decade. The theoretical underpinning of the methodology is based on structural functionalism in order to achieve a holistic system diagnosis. The internal challenges that bother on funding, relevance and harmonization of curricula were found to be more invasive than the external policy-related challenges. It is recommended that the internal and external factors need a redress to refocus and reposition Entrepreneurial Education for impact in the country.
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    FAMILY RELATIONSHIP AS PREDICTOR OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN NASARAWA STATE
    (Department of Guidance and Counselling, Nasarawa State University Keffi., 2020-12-08) Adikwu, James Musa; Ugbe, Lucy Ungie-Ada
    This study examined “Family Relationships as Predictor of Personality traits among Secondary School Students in Nasarawa state. The purpose of the study was to establish how family relationships predict personality traits of secondary school students. Two specific objectives were raised and translated into research questions and hypotheses. Descriptive survey research design was usedfor this study. The Population for this study was 22,073 SSII students. The sample for the study was 650 students selected using Krejcie and Morgan (1970) sampling table. Two instruments were used for the study namely: Family Relations Scale (FRS) and the “Big Five” personality Inventory (BFI). The instruments yielded validity indices of 0.82 for (FRS), 0.86 for (BFI) respectively while the reliability indices were 0.84 for the BFI, and 0.90 for the family relation rating scale. Mean and standard deviation as well as Pearson product moment correlation was used to answer and analyze research questions on the basis of the values of r (coefficient of correlation) .The results showed that family relationship predicts personality traits of secondary school students.
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    INNOVATION IN INSTRUMENT AND INSTRUMENTATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH
    (Department of Educational Foundation, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2018-01-09) Allahnana, Kwanza Maikudi; Adikwu, James Musa; Labaran, Sarki Ibrahim; Vintseh, Iliya Monday Usman
    Innovation in instrument is a change of device typically used to find out something about a person. Most of the times, when you finish a lesson or lessons in a week, your teacher gives you a test. This test is an instrument given to you by the teacher in order to obtain data on which you are judged. It is an educationally common type of device which an individual completes himself or herself, the intent is to determine changes or gains resulting from such instruments as inventory, questionnaire, opinionative, scale etc. To help distinguish between instrument and instrumentation, consider that the instrument is the device and instrumentation is the process of developing, testing, and using the device. Instruments fall into two broad categories, researchercompleted and subject-completed, distinguished by those instruments that researchers administer versus those that are completed by participants. Researchers chose which type of instrument, or instruments, to use based on the research questions. The study concludes that it is important to note the relevance of rapport in the handling of research instrument for data collection. Rapport is of critical importance especially with the interviewee to ensure the right frame of mind for the interview.
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    THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ADOLESCENT SELF-CONCEPT AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KEFFI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, NASARAWA STATE
    (Department of Educational Foundation,Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2016-05-01) Nwosu, Patience Ngozi; Bala, Sani Abdullahi; Adikwu, James Musa
    The study was designed to investigate the relationship between adolescent self-concept and academic performance of Senior Secondary School Students in Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. Two hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted the correlation design. A total of350 respondents which was the population of the senior secondary school students ss 2 were used. Self-concept items developed by Carl Rogers (1957) were adapted and renamed Self Concept Academic Performance Inventory (SCAPI) for use. The data collected was analysis using Pearson Product Moment Correlation and t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study found that there is a significant relationship between positive self concept and academic performance of students. Students with positive self concept should be encouraged to sustain the tempo through the numerous ways. There is a significant negative relationship between negative self concepts on academic performance of adolescent students.