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To make sense of the moving towards mastery, literature research was conducted into the fields of Training and Environmental factors as determinants of Adult workers mastery of Assignment in workplace in Ogun State Nigeria. The study begins with an exploration of subjective experience of eleven contemplative workers. Semi-structural personal interviews were conducted with each participant and a small focus group met to discuss the factors affecting training and environment on adults workers in mastery of assignment in workplace. The urgency of expending adult learning to support economic growth and higher living standards has put the focus on “Adult” readiness to engage in learning and mastering a skill in order to be effective and functioning in a particular trade. There is need to develop a better understanding of the factors that determine mastery of assignment in workplace. To this end, this paper examines the factors that determine mastery of particular skill in workplace. It is recommended among others, that, management should provide enabling environment for workers, also endeavour to engage in house training and on-the-job training which will enhance their mastery skill.

Researchers and education stakeholders in South Africa point the need to improve on pre-service teachers’ knowledge of mathematics concepts that they teach to their learners in this 21st century. Preparation of pre-service mathematics teachers to use technology is a critical issue facing teacher education programmes. In this research, the researcher explored how dynamic geometry software, influenced pre-service teachers’ achievement in Euclidean geometry. This study also elicited participants’ opinion of the most important properties of three different software used in this research. Data were generated from the written responses of 130 participants to an assessment as well as short questionnaire to find out most important properties a dynamic geometry software must have in accordance with participants’ opinion. The result showed that pre-service mathematics teachers taught Euclidean geometry using Geometer Sketchpad and GeoGebra software had greater improvement than their counterpart taught same content using Cabri 2 plus software. This result show that the PMTs users of Geometer Sketchpad and GeoGebra software developed a robust understanding of Euclidean Geometry concept that they will be required to teach in future. Findings from the qualitative data provided evidence that GeoGebra, Geometer Sketchpad and Cabri 2 plus software possess the necessary properties required to supplement for effective teaching and learning of Euclidean geometry. The study recommends that pre-service teachers should be provided with more structured technology-oriented opportunities to help develop and improve on their knowledge of basic mathematics concepts that is in line with the 21st century skill.

The impact of English as a language is flet globally and perhaps in every country, only a few people do not speak or come into contact with it. In Nigeria, the status of English as a second language is held in high esteem. Though, the position of English is high in Nigeria among both educated and non-educated but its linguistic texture in the spoken area, is being treated with a negative attitude of perceptibility and comprehensibility. This paper, examines a particular scenario, whereby the spoken English in use is not only a deviant away from the Standard British English, but also the Standard Nigerian English (Odumuh 1987) and Nigerian Phonological English (Hausa) of (Jibril 1982). The paper continues to investigate the dilemma of spoken English from many dimensions, and fears that this deviance is actually imposing on other English phonological varieties of ethnicity around it. If this attitude persists, the Hausa learner of oral English will be either cut off nor tap the full benefits of Information Communication Technology. In conclusion, it shows that the pedagogy of teaching has not really influenced learning, because looking at other scenarios where Arabic is taught as a second language the perception of both segments and prosody is done with ease. The paper warns that, if precaution is not taken at the teaching dimension the attitude of the Hausa learner of the phonological systems of English will completely be negative.

There is a great need to extend library profession base on the fast growing needs of employment in the country as at today. To reduce the unemployed rate that has reached an alarming stage which is due to economic recession and constant decline in industry which would have lead to the drive of the economy of the nation at large. The present economic realities and the challenges in labour market in Nigeria as well as the increase in unemployment of our graduates also justify the need to equip undergraduates with the basic entrepreneurial skills and accurate knowledge that would enable them to be self-employed after graduation. Moreover, users of library no longer see the need to visit the library because library services are not attractive and packaged in ways that will make them visit the library. There is therefore, the need to make library services attractive; this will require that teachers or lecturers need to infuse entrepreneurial courses in their curriculums irrespective of the courses that they teaches at institutions of higher learning. The acquisition of entrepreneurial texts books both hard copies and soft copies should be available for the use of both students and academic staff . Hence library services need to engage in entrepreneurship education in academic school curriculum will greatly enhance entrepreneurial knowledge and skills which will prepare graduate students for the challenge of the labour market and make them to be self employed in the long run.

Melancholically speaking, examination malpractices have become a constant feature, a recurring decimal in Nigerian education system. In spite of the individual and collective efforts of stakeholders in the public school system, the current dimension of examination malpractices is alarmingly high. This study determines the causes and feasible solutions to examination malpractices in Nigerian education system, using West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination and tertiary institutions’ internal examinations. A total of one hundred and twenty (120) people made up of sixty students, thirty teachers and thirty parents was used to carry out the study. These three groups, tagged STP were asked to generate the present causes and feasible solutions to this menace. Data was collected and analysed using simple percentage and correlation methods. The findings include social media, lack of facilities, ineffective and inefficient management, negligence of parents, inadequate coverage of school syllabuses, habitual lazy learning culture of students, indolence of teachers/lecturers, over-population, unfavourable examination environments, among others. The feasible solutions identified include provision of good facilities, employment of competent teachers/lecturers, availability of counselling unit in each school, among others.

There are lots of opportunities in the world today, but these opportunities are hardly noticed by the people, talk-less of moving towards mastery. There are many poor people in the world today because they lack the capacity to maintain at least basic level of decent living. Many countries of the world, most especially African countries have initiated programmes and policies aimed at combating these conditions but these policies and programmes are not yielding the desired results. This paper examined the role of Adult and Non-Formal Education in a universe of opportunities, as well as, helping to show the act of moving towards mastering them. Adult and Non-Formal Education is a programme designed to provide education for all men and women who are aged twenty-one (21) and above years as well as for those who are though adults but are in vocational disciplines so as to improve on their trade. This study that is purely descriptive has essentially analyzed relevant documents relating to Adult and Non- Formal Education in terms of opportunities that are available to all and how they can move towards mastering these opportunities for their own good, the paper has therefore recommended among others: that for discovered opportunities to be mastered in the universe, the place of Adult and Non-Formal Education should not be taken for granted.

Education is a very vital part of human existence be it formal or informal. It is the type or level of education we acquire that determines our level of prosperity and place whatever type of education we have or want cannot be acquired without the use of language, which means without language human beings will find it very difficult to achieve anything meaningful. An adage says “anything worth doing is worth doing well” meaning that any field of work we choose or find ourselves in ,we must utilize all the available means to be successful and outstanding. The available means to utilize taken from Yoruba cultural heritage and how to utilize them is the main focus of this paper. Major keywords of this paper were defined, some cultural heritage of Yoruba people which can be taught to people (even from cradle) with the use of Yoruba language were listed and discussed, for example respect, truthfulness, hardwork, endurance, prudence etc. The paper therefore suggested advertisement, neatness, good approach to customers, attending private and government organized seminars relating to one’s field etc. as a way of moving towards mastery for artisans. Lectures for farmers on mechanized farming or modern day farming will definitely help the farmers in moving towards diverse opportunities and make their work less strenuous as these will put more money in to their pockets and give them job satisfaction and fulfillment.

The teacher is a key variable in the teaching-learning context, implying that no meaningful talk about improved English teaching and learning is possible without attention to teacher development. The point is this: whatever students will benefits from English instruction is a function of who the teacher is academically and professionally-what he knows, believes and does. Ukeje (2000) captures this supreme importance of the teacher as follows:If the child is the centre of the educational system, teachers are the hubs of the educational process. For it is upon their number, their education and training, their quality and devotion to duty, their effectiveness and efficiency, their competence and their productivity depend on the effectiveness, the capability and the possibilities of the entire educational system and enterprise. The realization of the potentialities of organized education as a veritable instrument for social change and national reconstruction depends largely on the teachers. Excellent educational policies are meaningless unless there are equally excellent teachers to see to their realization. Various governments may vote sufficient funds as enabling resources for education, adequate material resources may be procured, but unless the teachers are properly prepared and positively motivated, little productivity will happen. From what has been said so far about the critical role the teacher plays, it is perhaps clear that if the English teaching efforts are not yielding the desired results, the teacher factor is the first place is to look for the cause, that is why the logical question to ask at this point is, what arrangement is in place for preparing English teacher? It is of course clear that the question can only be answered intelligently within the context of teacher education programmes generally. The objective of this paper is to show how adequate subject matter and instrument can be used enhance effective teaching of English language.

The study investigated the impact that mastery of communication skill has on teaching and learning of science courses in Kwara State colleges of education, Nigeria. Descriptive survey type of design was adopted for the study. Simple random sampling techniques were employed to select two hundred (200) science students in 200level from the four government-owned colleges of education in Kwara state. A researcher-designed questionnaire entitled “Mastery Communication Skill Questionnaire” (MCSQ) was used to collect the data. The data collected were analyzed using frequency counts, percentages and means to answer the research questions while chi-square was used to test the hypothesis. The results of the finding revealed that mannerism, misinterpretation and overloading of the information can affect communication while teacher's methods of teaching and establishment of good students/teachers' relationship enhance adequate flow of communication. Mastery communication skill has greater influence on science teaching and learning process in colleges of education in Kwara State. Recommendations were made that; both science teachers in colleges of education and pre-service science teachers should improve on their communication skill to enhance enabling environment for teaching and learning; good teaching method by the teachers in the classroom should be improved to reduce overloading of information and mannerism in the classroom discussion

Inappropriate use of instructional strategies by teachers has been linked to one of the problems of poor performances of senior secondary school students in Biology at the Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) in Nigeria. Therefore, mastering instructional strategies appropriate for effective teaching of Biology is required to improve students’ performances. This study examined the effects of learning cycle instructional strategy on students’ performance in ecology. The influence of (i) gender (ii) and cognitive style were examined on senior school students’ performance after instruction. A quasi-experimental study was adopted for the study. Population for the study was all SSII students offering Biology. A purposive sampling technique was used to select two public secondary schools in Ilorin city. A researcher-designed Ecology Achievement Test (EAT) and adapted copies of cognitive style questionnaire were used for data collection. Mean was used to answer research questions and ANCOVA was used to test hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The Findings of the study were that: there was a significant difference in the performance of senior school students’ taught ecology using learning cycle as to those taught with conventional method, there was no significant difference in the performance of male and female senior school students exposed to learning cycle; there was no significant difference in the performance of senior school students exposed to Learning cycle based on cognitive style. It was recommended among others, that Biology teachers should be encouraged to adopt Learning cycle Strategy to teach biology in order to enhance students’ performance in biology particularly in ecology.