Adeneye Olarewaju Awofala

• NCE., B.Ed., M.Ed., MSc., PhD., CCA
• Senior Lecturer at University of Lagos

For Nigeria to attain her Vision 20: 2020, the school curricula must change in line with the development in technology. Teachers should be able to adapt technology into the teaching and learning process. Three non-intellectual elements that affect the degree of integration of technology into teaching and learning are attitude toward computer, compu...

Relationships between approaches to learning and achievement in mathematics are well established in the foreign literature. However, studies on relationships between approaches to learning and achievement in mathematics in Nigerian mathematics education community are scarce. Thus, the goal of the present study is to showcase empirical evidence for...

Science, technology and mathematics (STM) education in Nigeria is bedeviled with numerous challenges including poor performance, dwindling enrolment rate, and little integration of technology into teaching. Nevertheless, former investigations have proven the effectiveness of mobile learning (m-learning) in mitigating the difficulties encountered in...

Technology has revolutionised everyday existence. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is essential to society, employment, and education. Improved microelectronics has facilitated the proliferation of inexpensive portable devices such as smartphones. This study, therefore, investigated whether senior secondary school students' nomophobia...

Mathematical concepts are often regarded as difficult to learn. A large percentage of students only study it because of its compulsory nature at the secondary school level. These students go through the learning process without enthusiasm and motivation to learn the subject which often results in frustration and lack of success. This study exam...

Article History The latest eruption of COVID-19 pandemic in December 2019 has led to the complete lockdown of key conurbations worldwide which occasioned the premature shutting down of schools in conurbations affected. With the surging cases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, it is conjectured that COVID-19 may have an undesirable effect on the p...

Perseverance—continued effort and determination—in mathematics learning in the face of daunting challenges and obstacles should be the hallmark of any serious mathematics student. In this study, a revalidation of the mathematical resilience scale developed by Kooken et al. (2016) was carried out with a Nigerian sample (N = 1440) in which the fitnes...

This study examined the perceptions of parents and tutors on the implementation of the Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board (JUPEB) Programme in Nigeria within the scheme of numerical archetype of the descriptive survey research design. The 73 study participants consisted of 28 parents and 45 tutors of the current JUPEB candidates enro...

The study investigated attitudes toward climate change among 480 pre-service science, technology, and mathematics (STM) teachers from four higher institutions of learning in Southwest, Nigeria using the quantitative research method within the blueprint of the descriptive survey design. Data collected using climate change attitude survey were analys...

This study investigated senior secondary school students’ motivation to learning mathematics and gender as correlates of performance in mathematics. The sample consisted of 315 students from two government senior secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria using the quantitative research method within the blueprint of the descriptive survey research...

This study examined the effect of differentiated instruction on senior secondary school students’ achievement in mathematics in Nigeria within the blueprint of the pre-test, post-test non-equivalent control group quasi-experimental research design. The sample comprised 220 students in which three research questions and three null hypotheses guided...

For Nigeria to attain her Vision 20: 2020, the school curricula must change in line with the development in technology. Teachers should be able to adapt technology into the teaching and learning process. Three non-intellectual elements that affect the degree of integration of technology into teaching and learning are attitude toward computer, compu...

The world awoke to a global biological threat in December 2019, which has since changed the course of human relationships across continents. The reality of this is also felt in the educational sector at all levels and has brought about new norms. In rising to the occasion, experts seek the safety of human lives and continuously advocate for an unpr...

The emergence of COVID-19 in Wuhan, the Peoples Republic of China in December 2019 and it spread to Nigeria on February 27, 2020, has made the closure of educational institutions in the country a must and homeschooling inevitable. Aside from social distancing and putting on of the armour of basic health hygiene and using nose masks, COVID-19 p...

This study investigated the effect of personalisation of instruction on the motivation to learn mathematics word problems of 450 senior secondary students in Nigeria within the blueprint of quasi-experimental research of Solomon Four non-equivalent control group design. It also examined the influence of gender on motivation to learn mathematics wor...

Teaching practice is considered a professional development tool for boosting science, technology and mathematics graduate teachers‟ employability. This study examined Nigerian school administrators‟ perception of the skills central to the employability of preservice STM teachers in order to make them work-ready when they graduate and increase their...

Attitude is not only one of the significant factors that characterises human uniqueness but a factor that influences achievement. This study investigated preservice mathematics teachers' attitudes toward mathematics and found out gender difference in attitude towards mathematics within a blueprint of a descriptive survey research design involving 3...

Introduction: Investigation into the factor structure of Domains of Creativity Scale has been on for sometimes now. The purpose of this study was to test the validity of the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale on Nigerian preservice science, technology, and mathematics teachers. Method: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed on...

The global acceptance of information and communication technologies in education is not without barriers and one major barrier on the part of teacher educator implementation effort is preservice teachers’ perception of and capabilities for applying computer technology. Although the construct of computer self-efficacy has gained widespread investiga...

This study investigated the effect of a personalised print-based instruction versus a non-personalised print-based instruction on the attitudes toward mathematics word problems of 350 senior secondary school year one Nigerian students within the blueprint of a quantitative research of pre-treatment-intervention-post-treatment non-equivalent control...

The study investigated adult learner numeracy as related to gender and performance in arithmetic among 32 Nigerian adult learners from one government accredited adult literacy centre in Lagos State using the quantitative research method within the blueprint of descriptive survey design. Data collected were analysed using the descriptive statistics...

The study investigated the effect of students' background knowledge of mathematics on academic achievement in physics. The moderating effect of gender was also examined. The sample consisted of 300 senior secondary school year one science/mathematics students in Lagos State. The study adopted pre-test and post-test control group non-equivalent quas...

The study investigated the effect of problem-based learning (PBL) on senior secondary school students' beliefs about Further Mathematics in Nigeria within the blueprint of pre-test-post-test non-equivalent control group quasi-experimental design. Intact classes were used and in all, 96 students participated in the study (42 in the experimental grou...

Introduction. The stability of the achievement goal orientation across different contexts has been a source of further research since the new millennium. Through theoretically-driven and empirically-based analyses, this study investigated the psychometric properties of the Elliot and McGregor 2×2 framework for achievement goal questionnaire within...

This study investigated the effects of test response mode and locus of control on student's achievements in senior secondary school mathematics and sciences within the blueprint of casual-comparative research of an expost-facto type. The sample consisted of 240 senior secondary school year two students drawn from seven randomly selected senior seco...

This study dealt with the development and factorial validation of a students’ evaluation of teaching effectiveness scale in mathematics (SETES-M) which could be used to evaluate Nigerian Secondary Schools mathematics teachers’ teaching effectiveness. The effect of SETES-M on achievement in mathematics was also considered. In its final form, the 60-...

This study investigated the effect of personalized print-based instruction on the achievement and self-efficacy regarding mathematics word problems of 320 senior secondary students in Nigeria. The moderator effect of gender was also examined on independent variable (personalization) and dependent variables (mathematics word problem achievement and...

This study investigated the effects of a problem context variant- personalisation and reasoning complexity on mathematics problem-solving achievement and transfer of 126 junior secondary school students. Students received personalised or non-personalised instruction involving either simple or complex reasoning. Two types of achievement questions we...

The mathematics performance of graduating senior secondary year three students over a period of 10 years was investigated for possible gender differences. Data were drawn from students' (880 males and 900 females) mock examination mathematics results from eight secondary schools (2 rural schools, 2 urban schools, 2 single-sex schools and 2 co-educa...

This study investigated the effect of personalized, computer-based instruction using individual student interests and preferences on students' achievement in solving two-step word problems. 80 junior secondary school year three students were grouped by ability level based on pre-test scores, then randomly assigned to a personalized or non-personali...

This study investigated the effect of concept mapping strategy on achievement in mathematics of 88 junior secondary year three Nigerian students. The study adopted a pre-test, post-test non-equivalent control group quasi-experimental design and data collected for the study were analysed using the t-test statistic. The experimental group, taught wit...