Developing countries have limitations in almost every area of modernization. These limitations are not limited to only education and the classroom in which teachers and learners exercise their duties but also other aspects of human endeavours. Scholarly approaches embraced by educators in the quest to evolve knowledge, especially, those whose basis arise from Science and Mathematics have generated considerable improvement over the years. These approaches beget a pattern aimed at preparing emerging learners with up to date knowledge on how best to solve challenges required of complex, yet human everyday life. The goal of education and by extension science is to equip citizen with requisite skills to embrace challenges and solve human everyday problems. This article exposes the trend in STEM, STEAM and STREAM approaches, as well as, the rationale for each of the appendage component of the evolution. The global application of robots in areas with shortage of manpower is a trend in global economy and governance. Africa’s classroom integration and limitation of technology in classroom learning can potentially be resolved with solutions from robotics. A measure of the grounds covered in the developing countries and the gap expected to be covered were extensively explored. The limitation in knowledge, expertise and resources to cope with these emerging trends for purposeful and meaningful classroom integration in Africa were investigated.
This study examined the effect of mind mapping instructional strategy on students' retention in physics in senior secondary schools. The research is a quasi-experimental design of the pre-test, post-test, non-equivalent and non-randomized 2 X 2 X 3 factorial design. 64 students were sampled for this study out of which 28 formed the experimental group (mind mapping instructional strategy) while 36 of the respondents constituted the control group (conventional method). The pre-test and post-test contained 20 multiple-choice questions with four options one of which was the key factor while others were distractors. Multiple-choice questions were validated by three university professors. A retention test was also conducted after 2 weeks of the whole exercise. Data collected were analysed using the mean and standard deviation to answer the research question while hypotheses were tested using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) and independent t-test at 0.05 significant level. Findings revealed among others that there was a significant effect of the mind mapping instructional strategy in physics in senior secondary schools It was therefore, recommended among others that mind mapping instructional strategy should be used to teach physics concept at the senior secondary school level of education for a better performance because it improves students' performances in physics.
For internet facilities to be adopted and integrated in schools, the resources should not only be available, it must also be accessible. The objectives of this study were to: identify internet facilities available for second-ary school teachers; determine whether secondary school teachers are able to access the internet facilities; and investigate how teachers’ gender influence the accessibility of internet facilities in secondary schools in Ilorin. The population of the study was limited to secondary school teachers in Ilorin, Nigeria and 251 re-spondents were randomly selected. There was no significant difference between male and female secondary school teachers’ level of accessibility of internet facilities for instruction. The study concluded that teachers have access to the available internet facilities for advanced instruction. It was recommended that, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should be allowed to establish centres on campus in order to bring online services close to teachers.
The general poor performance of students in national examinations in recent past have brought about doubts from relevant quarters as to the activities of stakeholders towards improving students' performance in Science and generally Science Education. Researchers have succinctly identified causes of poor performance among students and have acted in various capacities to remediate this occurrence. However, government, teachers and students have peculiar challenges for effective and successful improvement from the status quo. Whether the roles are practicable under the current socioeconomic realities in Nigeria remains a probable question. Hence, this study researched the responsibilities of government, teachers and students in qualitative development of science education in Nigeria. The researcher reviewed the global educational practices to what is obtainable in Nigeria vis-à-vis the UNESCO benchmark. Also, this study suggests plausible solutions to the peculiar problems arising from the neglect of global and international best practices in Nigeria.
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