Peter Akinsola Okebukola

Peter Akinsola Okebukola
Lagos State University | LASU · Department of Science and Technology Education

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Researching my new invention- the Culturo-Techno-Contextual (CTC) Approach designed to break down many of the traditional barriers to the meaningful learning of science. The approach is an amalgam of three frameworks- (a) cultural context in which all learners are immersed; (b) technology-mediation to which teachers and learners are increasingly dependent; and (c) locational context which is a unique identity of every school and which plays a strong role in the examples and local case studies.

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Concerns about declining science performance in Nigerian secondary schools persist, as many teachers still use eurocentric methods that don’t align with Nigeria’s socio-cultural context. This gap makes science seem abstract, contributing to high dropout rates. Addressing this requires culturally relevant methods like the Culturo-Techno-Contextual A...
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This study examines the effectiveness of CTCA on improving students’ retention and promoting meaningful learning of flowchart and algorithm among junior secondary school students. The study's theoretical framework is based on Ausubel's theory of the advance organizer and Vygotsky's theory of social constructivism. The study employed a mixed method...
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The study examined the effectiveness of the culturo-techno-contextual approach(CTCA) in improving the achievement and attitude of students' towards population dynamics as a concept in science. The study was guided with three research questions and three hypotheses. The research design for this study was a quasi-experimental design. The sample was d...
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The study examined the effectiveness of the culturo-techno-contextual approach (CTCA) in improving students’ achievement in biology, with a specific focus on the classical aspects of bioenergetics. The study was guided by four research questions and four hypotheses, and it adopted the mixed methods (quantitative & qualitative) design. Two schools p...
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This study is concerned with the persistent underperformance of secondary school students in Nigeria in physics. The study was conducted in two phases. Phase one was a survey of difficult concepts in physics, while phase two explored the potency of culturo-techno-contextual approach (CTCA) in breaking the barriers to meaningful learning of refracti...
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Studies on reasons accounting for the difficulties in learning public administration is relatively new in the public administration literature though many findings exist regarding students’ difficulties in the study of different subject areas. This paper examines whether the perceived reasons in other subjects are real in the study of public admini...
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Purpose Students' career choices and programmes of study are perceived to influence student understanding of many courses. Yet, research attention is limited on entrepreneurship education that is a panacea for unemployment. Thus, this paper aims to assess the influence of students' career interests on students' comprehension of the entrepreneurship...
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The Culturo-Techno-Contextual Approach (CTCA) is a teaching method based on culture, technology, and context to ease difficulties in students’ understanding of concepts. Python Programming as a concept in computer studies is difficult for students to understand at the secondary school level. This study investigates the efficacy of the CTCA in under...
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The study is concerned with the persistent underperformance of secondary school students in Nigeria in physics. The study was conducted in two phases. Phase one was a survey of difficult concepts in physics while phase two explored the potency of culturo-techno-contextual approach (CTCA) in breaking the barriers to meaningful learning of refractive...
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The study is concerned with the persistent underperformance of secondary school students in Nigeria in physics. The study was conducted in two phases. Phase one was a survey of difficult concepts in physics while phase two explored the potency of culturo-techno-contextual approach (CTCA) in breaking the barriers to meaningful learning of refractive...
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There have been few studies on students’ difficulty in the computer studies curriculum of African senior secondary schools. This study attempts to fill this gap by investigating the concepts students find difficult in the Ghanaian and Nigerian computer science curriculum and the influence of students’ career interests on these perceived difficult c...
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Background Studies in biology have shown that students perceive variation and evolution to be difficult areas to learn. This has sparked rote learning of variation and evolution concepts and is evidenced in poor performance in tests involving these concepts. Purpose In light of the significant role of variation and evolution in a human’s acquainta...
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Student difficulty in public administration has witnessed some writings within the African context. Although these studies are emerging, there seems to be minimal research on the influence of school libraries on students’ understanding of public administration. This gap in the public administration literature precludes educational managers from det...
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This study examined the efficacy of Culturo-Techno-Contextual Approach (CTCA) on secondary school students' academic achievement in biology. The study employed a mixed-methods approach. The quantitative approach employed the pre-test, post-test and control group quasi-experimental design, while the qualitative approach employed a semi-structured in...
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This study examined the efficacy of Culturo-Techno-Contextual Approach (CTCA) on secondary school students' academic achievement in biology. The study employed a mixed-methods approach. The quantitative approach employed the pre-test, post-test and control group quasi-experimental design, while the qualitative approach employed a semi-structured in...
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The declining of standard of secondary education in Nigeria poses serious challenge to principals, teachers, and students who constitute the primary focus in quality assurance system. A descriptive design research design was adopted for this study where two instruments were developed. The purpose of this study is to find out (a) the effects of gend...
Preprint
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This preprint is an undergraduate project report titled POTENCY OF CULTURO-TECHNO-CONTEXTUAL APPROACH ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS MUTATION AND VARIATION.
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Subject/Problem The study is concerned with the need for STEM educators in Nigeria to shift the gaze of their research to other determinants of quality education beyond students' achievement in test and examination. The new trajectories for measuring quality and functional education include ability to demonstrate mastery of new competencies such a...
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The achievement level in school and public examinations has failed to climb beyond the average. In addressing this challenge especially as it relates to the methods of delivering the biology curriculum, various methods such as concept mapping, discovery learning, and cooperative learning have been found to improve the learning of biology concepts b...
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The study examined the effectiveness of a relatively new teaching method-The Culturo-Techno-Contextual Approach (CTCA)-in improving students' achievement in biology with specific focus on genetics. It was conducted in two phases. The first phase adopted the Difficult Concepts in Biology Questionnaire (DCBQ) for secondary school biology students ran...
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This PowerPoint was presented at the 95th Annual Conference of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching, Vancouver Canada.
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This paper was presented at the 95th Annual Conference of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching, Vancouver Canada
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The study is concerned with the need for STEM educators in Nigeria to shift the gaze of their research to other determinants of quality education beyond students’ achievement in test and examination. The new trajectories for measuring quality and functional education include ability to demonstrate mastery of new competencies such as the 4C’s which...
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The study is concerned with the persistent underperformance of secondary school students in Nigeria in physics. The study was conducted in two phases. Phase one was a survey of difficult concepts in physics while phase two explored the potency of culturo-techno-contextual approach (CTCA) in breaking the barriers to meaningful learning of refractive...
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The achievement level in school and public examinations has failed to climb beyond the average. In addressing this challenge especially as it relates to the methods of delivering the biology curriculum, various methods such as concept mapping, discovery learning, and cooperative learning have been found to improve the learning of biology concepts b...
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This PowerPoint was presented at the conference of the African Council for Distance Education.
Technical Report
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This is a Technical Report on the 2021 Nigerian University System Rankings based on 12 Indicators developed by the League of Directors of Academic Planning under the supervision of the National Universities Commission.
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Background Science educators around the world have recognised that difference in performance exists between male and female students in chemistry and there have been several efforts and interventions through research and workshops to bridge this gap. Purpose Owing to the current growth of the effects of the use of computer simulations on students’...
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The new senior secondary school physics curriculum for Anglophone West African countries came into use in 2015. Since the beginning of its implementation, even though, the performance of the candidates has not been high, yet reported empirical studies on the difficulty level of the content, and specifically the topics or concepts have been scant. M...
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The study investigated the efficacy of CTCA in improving students' comprehension of concepts in biology in their traditional background attributed to complexity, misunderstanding, and misinterpretation of concepts which are used in the topic. This study was geared by the need for teaching strategies that afford the African child to meaningfully lea...
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The study was geared by the growing need for teaching methods/strategies that afford the African child the strength to meaningfully learn science in the digital world, not as foreign and/or abstract concepts but as a unit of knowledge that exists around him, within his culture and which applies to his everyday life. The study was in two phases with...
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Students’ understanding of public administration (PA) plays an important role in ensuring the quality of human resources that African universities produce. Using a quantitative approach and sample N ¼ 650, this paper draws on empirical evidences of students lived expereinces of what they consider difficult in the study of PA in Ghana and Nigeria; e...
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The world over, there is a love-hate perspective to university ranking. It is applause when the university is well ranked and rejection when not so favoured. The group with positive disposition to ranking (“rankingphilic”) is quick to cite its ranks on websites and annual reports. The negatively disposed (“rankingphobic”), on the other hand denounc...
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Nigeria is experiencing the reality of climate change more than ever with Sea level rise, coastal and riverine flooding; erosion and desertification as 'clouds of witnesses'. People's perception and experiences appears to be the core issues that will influence their climate change anxiety level, a potent factor behind climate action. The younger ge...
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There have been few studies on topic difficulty in the public administration curriculum of African universities. This is further problematized by non-existent literature on the relationships between gender, future career interest and country of study on student difficulty in the study of public administration. This is a gap in the public administra...
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This paper describes the state of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Africa with Ghana as case study. It presents a detailed gap analysis relative to where Africa should be and provides suggestions for bridging the gap. It underlines the importance of political will among African leaders in ensuring that the potential of Tech...
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This paper examines the critical role played by higher education in a knowledge-driven economy. It reviews the challenges faced by African higher education systems in fostering the growth of knowledge-based economies and offers far-reaching suggestions for scaling the hurdles.
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In line with the functional, organizational and political approach to regionalization of higher education which is discussed in the first chapter of this book, quality assurance is one of the core functional element of higher education regionalization process that this chapter will be discussing.
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As discussed in Chapter 1, the recognition of qualifications and the development of qualification frameworks are key elements of higher education reform in the functional approach of the FOPA model. Policies that enable the recognition of qualifications are normally established at the national, bilateral, sub-regional and regional level. Qualificat...
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The world over, there is a love-hate perspective to university ranking. It is applause when the university is well ranked and rejection when not so favoured. The group with positive disposition to ranking (“rankingphilic”) is quick to cite its ranks on websites and annual reports. The negatively disposed (“rankingphobic”), on the other hand denounc...
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This paper dissects the quantity versus quality debate in the Nigerian university system and proposes recommendations that will ensure that quality does not suffer much in the face of massification. It highlights challenges to science and technology delivery systems and recommends how Nigerian universities can be repositioned to scale these challen...
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This paper begins with a short historical context of ranking of universities in Africa and presents a Nigerian national example while the section that follows describes the emergence of the African Quality Rating Mechanism. The findings of a study on the perception of African university managers and scholars on the issue of ranking is then reported...
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An examination of the relationships between the manner of utilization of human and material resources and students’ achievement in and attitude toward science was undertaken in this study. The results show that the frequency of use of laboratory resources had the highest positive correlation with achievement (.57) followed by the quality of use of...
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This article is a critical review of quality assurance in higher education in Africa with the purpose of identifying recent results, challenges still to be faced, and actions required to forcefully move towards the construction of an African higher education and research space (AHERS). The article identifies factors responsible for the decline in q...
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This study examined the extent to which Lagos Eko project training had enhanced the teachers’ performance and the academic performance of the students in . It also investigated the perceptions of teachers and students on the school provision of supportive facilities to aid the Eko Project training. The study adopted descriptive survey and ex-post-...
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The forecast for the first quarter of this century is that the issue of teaching science in the language to which the learner is most familiar will receive more attention in our quest to win more students for science. Over two-thirds of countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe have developed policies on the use of the mother tongue for teaching scienc...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate how postsecondary school science education students rank some identified science education program standards, as well as to seek their opinions regarding their perception of the desirability and achievement of the standards in Nigeria. A total of 265 final-year science education students in 10 colleges o...
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Stress, a condition of mental and physical exertion brought about as a result of harassing events or dissatisfying elements in the environment, has been found among teachers of science. If science teachers experience stressful conditions in their work, do students also experience stressful conditions in the learning of science, especially as studie...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the views of high school students with regard to food chains and food webs. This investigation included 96 randomly selected students from three countries (32 from each country): the USA, Australia and Canada. Each subject was individually interviewed using the interviews about events method. During each int...
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Recent studies in educational productivity and effectiveness of schooling have shown that certain factors could be altered within the classroom to result in enhanced achievement and positive attitude towards the study of science. A learner who is not positively disposed to, or has a socio-cultural background that is indifferent to the learning of s...
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The purpose of the study in this short report was to examine the issue of gender as it influences students’ perceived anxiety towards the use of computers and interest in computer usage. Data were collected from 142 boys and 139 girls enrolled in Year 11 in 14 senior high schools in Western Australia. The boys and girls were matched in four variabl...
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Concept mapping and vee diagramming are metalearning tools that have recently appeared on the science education scene. Literature attesting to their metacognitive potentials for students provide reason for optimism regarding their use for tackling rote memorization of scientific concepts. Are teachers who are key agents in the diffusion process of...
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An amount-of-learning outcome variable has been attributed to the environment in which teaching and learning are conducted. Studies carried out so far have, however, not focused on the sociocultural aspect of the classroom environment, which has been theorized to have potential influence on students' learning. The intent of this study was to examin...
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The primary interest of this study lay in exploring the potential of the personnel relations in "schools villages" in reducing science teacher stress. The schools-village concept which has a Greek origin and is gaining wide acceptance in many countries of the world, is built on the philosophy of maximum resource utilization and the engendering of c...
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Discussion of the use of computers in classrooms in Third World countries focuses on a survey of secondary school students in Lagos (Nigeria) that examined pupils' conception of a computer and their perceptions of the role and sociocultural consequences of computers in the classroom. (18 references) (LRW)
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This study examined ways in which experience in computer usage influences the manifestation of computer anxiety and computer interest in high school students in Western Australia. Use of the Computer Anxiety Scale and the Computer Interest Scale are discussed, and a decline in anxiety level corresponding with an increase in experience is shown. (21...
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Problem solving is an enduring issue in science education, ostensibly because science itself is basically concerned with problem solving—exploring the universe and seeking answers to intriguing phenomena in nature. Remarkable strides have been made in psychology about recording the minutiae of problem solving as a cognitive process. Concept mapping...
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Most of the curriculum design models within the technical-scientific approach utilise the rational and sequential process of designing and inter-relating the various elements of the design process. While this procedure may be efficient and adequate for conventional education in which the designers are professional science educators, there is doubt...
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This paper reports a study on concept mapping involving 14 Australian and 9 Indonesian science teachers. After a training and practice session in concept mapping, the teachers were surveyed on four scales: “Learning it”, “Teaching it”, “Useability by students”, and “Perceived benefits”. While the teachers' attitudes were generally favourable intere...
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Although recent studies have shown that the sociocultural characteristics which children in non-western society bring into the classroom from their environment create a wedge between what they are taught and what they learn, very little has been done to solve the problem. A learner who is not positively disposed to, or has a socio-cultural backgrou...
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The significance of the process skill of observation cannot be overemphasized in the teaching and learning of school science to which the provision of explanations about natural phenomena in the world is central. The study investigated the supposition that observational skills can be influenced by students’ belief in traditional African cosmology,...
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The shift towards a computerized society is stimulating active research in students' expressed computer anxiety and computer interest. This study examined how experience in computer usage influences the manifestation of computer anxiety and computer interest in high school students. Data collected from 426 students in Western Australia showed a cle...
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This study confirmed the potency of concept mapping set in a cooperative learning context in improving students' performance in difficult concepts in biology.
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The results of recent studies into the use of the concept mapping heuristic seem to demonstrate that meaningful learning results through its use in science classrooms. While this underscores the need to use more effective instructional strategies in science teaching, the issue of the intervening variable of anxiety in learning and science achieveme...
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It is becoming increasingly evident that the nature of the environment (ecology) influences the culture of a people. The prediction that such eco-cultural variables could exert influence on students' concept attainment in science was tested in this study using a 2 (general environment) × 2 (reasoning pattern) × 2 (nature of home) × 2 (goal structur...
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Studies have shown that in their study of biology, students perceive genetics and ecology to be difficult areas to learn. This has translated into rote learning of genetics and ecological concepts and reflected in poor performance in tests involving these concepts. Considering the importance of genetics and ecology to man's understanding of himself...
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In recognition of the vital role socio-cultural variables play in science classrooms, researchers are now beginning to call attention to, and encourage serious considerations of the socio- cultural background of pupils which affect their learning and understanding of science. An effective point to begin the empirical study of socio-cultural influen...
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The search for more effective, alternative instructional strategies has led to focusing attention on the metacognitive strategy of concept mapping. The heuristic of concept mapping assists learners in understanding concepts and relationships between them and seeing the hierarchical conceptual propositional nature of knowledge. While the search for...
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The growth of the literature on topic difficulties within the last two decades has indexed an increase in students’ aversion towards key concepts in the sciences. This study explored the possibility that the concept‐mapping strategy could be a fruitful way of reducing the anxiety levels of students as well as helping to change their attitudes towar...
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Although it is a truism that the natural sciences do transcend cultural and national boundaries, the issue of the effect of culture on the teaching and learning of science continues to preoccupy the minds of researchers. The learning of the natural sciences calls into question, very often, beliefs and practices that are part of the contemporary cul...
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This study examined the influence of selected factors on students' performance in practical chemistry. Twelve factors were extracted by principal component analysis. These factors accounted for 64% of the variance of the scores in practical chemistry when stepwise multiple regression analysis was applied on the data. Students' participation in labo...
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The intention of this paper is to determine the effects ofa prolonged period of cooperative and competitive relationships among students on their performance in science. Among the results obtained using 131 class one (seventh grade) students were the following. (1) No significant difference was found to exist in the performance of students in the e...
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The purpose of this investigation was to examine a number of factors which affect students' attitudes toward chemistry laboratory work. Keywords (Audience): High School / Introductory Chemistry

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