Browsing by Author "Labaran, Sarki Ibrahim"

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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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    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.