Research Article
Sandra Eberechukwu Augustine, Ebere Pearl Ezeoguine
MEDITERR J SOC BEH RES, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 3-11
ABSTRACT
This analytical survey focused on investigating the level of student-teachers’ self-determination towards learning online during COVID-19 at the University of Port Harcourt and the hindrances they experienced. Two objectives and six hypotheses guided the study. The population was two thousand, seven hundred and sixty-seven (2,767) student-teachers in the Faculty of Education with a sample size of six hundred and twelve (612) drawn randomly from the population. The study gathered data using the researchers’ developed questionnaire with a 0.76 alpha reliability coefficient. Data analyses were through mean, standard deviation, t-test, and Welch test. The results disclosed that the University of Port Harcourt student-teachers’ self-determination level to learning online during COVID-19 was high; this varies significantly based on study years, departments and gender. Lecturers’ inability to develop online courses and distractions during learning online, among others, were the hindrances that affected the student-teachers’ self-determination towards online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. These hindrances vary significantly based on the student-teachers’ study years and departments but were insignificant on a gender basis. Among the recommendations were that the University of Port Harcourt should train its lecturers to develop online courses and deliver them through Learning Management Systems dedicated solely for online learning purposes.
Keywords: Self-determination, motivation, COVID-19, online learning, hindrances, student-teachers
Research Article
Anas Seidu Salifu, Adamu Bakari
MEDITERR J SOC BEH RES, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 13-20
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between students’ perception, interest and mathematics achievement using purely quantitative approach. The research design used was descriptive survey. The study adopted purposive and simple random sampling techniques to choose a sample of 232 senior high students. The instruments used were questionnaires for measuring students’ perception and interest and achievement test. The results were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results revealed that students had negative perception towards mathematics and positive interest towards mathematics. Also, the results revealed that student’s interest and perception significantly predicted students’ achievement in mathematics. Again, a positive, moderate and significant relationship was recorded between students’ interest and achievements in mathematics. Furthermore, there was a positive weak correlation between students’ perception and achievement in mathematics which is also significant. Finally, weak positive significant correlation was recorded for the relationship between students’ perception and interest towards mathematics.
Keywords: perception, interest, achievement, relationship, correlation
Review Article
Mona Masood, Kamaludeen Samaila, Kien T. Chau
MEDITERR J SOC BEH RES, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 21-26
ABSTRACT
There is an agitation from teacher educators and experts that the traditional lecture-based method is no longer appropriate in teaching Information and Communication Technology (ICT) courses. Though, the government through its policies and reforms introduced ICT courses to schools and colleges to boost students’ ICT knowledge and skills for economic and national development. Studies from across all parts of the world show that using the traditional lecture-based method in teaching the ICT courses had affected students’ academic achievement and engagement. Scholars suggested using technologies and student-centered learning approaches to improve students’ achievement and engagement, particularly in the ICT courses. Flipped classroom model is one of the teaching and learning pedagogies that can overcome the limitations of the traditional lecture-based method. Few studies have investigated the effect of flipping classroom model for the students taking ICT courses. Hence, this paper presents a modified flipped classroom model to improve students’ achievement and learning engagement. The modified flipped classroom model comprises of social constructivist learning theory, bloom taxonomy, cooperative learning model, and study-quiz-question (SQQ) learning strategy.
Keywords: ICT knowledge, flipped classroom model, cooperative learning model, bloom taxonomy, social constructivism, SQQ
Research Article
Inuusah Mahama
MEDITERR J SOC BEH RES, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 27-33
ABSTRACT
The study was about the creative nurturing behaviors of in-service teachers in Ghana. Using the descriptive cross-sectional survey design, a sample of 768 (out of 1,321) in-service teachers were surveyed using online Google forms. The data for the study were collected with an adapted version of the Sharma and Sharma (2018) creativity nurturing behavior scale (15-items; α=.79). The data were descriptively and inferentially analyzed. Overall, the study found that majority of respondents exhibited low levels of creativity nurturing behaviors. Specifically, most of the respondents had moderate levels of creative curiosity and creative motivation, but some respondents had low levels of creative abstractions and critical thinking. Again, the study revealed that male and female respondents did not differ in their creative nurturing behaviors. Finally, differences were not established in creativity nurturing behaviors of in-service teachers based on the experience. In-service teachers were found to have insufficient knowledge on creative teaching. Therefore, it was recommended that in-service teachers need to be re-trained in the core competent areas of the new standard-based curriculum.
Keywords: curriculum, creativity, teachers, teaching