No teacher or instructor will love to see his or her students fail in their departmental examination. It is always believed that students performance have a correlation with the quality of teacher or lecturer. But there are still some situation where the teacher will be good but the students will still failing due to lots of factors such as peer group influence, family background, socio economic status of parents, poor learning environments, inadequate teachers, poor teacher-pupil relationship etc.

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

In educational institutions, academic performance is the outcome of educational goals that are achieved either by students or the teacher…

Is it truly conceivable to work on your memory? In the event that you’ve at any point gotten yourself failing to remember where you left your keys or blanking out data on significant tests then you have most likely wanted that your memory was a bit better. Luckily, there are a lot of things that you can never really work on your memory. Clearly, using a type of update framework can help. Setting up an online schedule that sends suggestions to your telephone assists you with monitoring that load of arrangements and gatherings. Making every day daily agendas can guarantee…

Stress is primarily a physical response and is defined as a condition typically characterized by the symptoms of mental and physical tension or strain, as depression or hypertension, which can result from a reaction to a situation in which a person feels threatened or pressured or sometimes both. Stress is a central concept for understanding both life and evolution. Learning and memory can be affected by stress. Although an optimal level of stress can enhance ability, too much stress can cause physical and mental health problems reduce self-esteem and may affect the academic achievements of students. When stressed, the body…

Every student desires to come top of their class but do not know how to go about becoming the best in their class. In most tertiary institutions in Nigeria some students tend to perform better than other even when they have the same study time and in the same learning. This article will explain the four studying hacks that can help improve students’ performance if all conditions remains constant.

Peer Tutoring

Peer tutoring is a broad learning strategy. It covers a wide range of activities through which people learn through different techniques. These activities ranged from a traditional proctor model…

The importance of education in the society cannot be overemphasized; it is one of the most important thing that every undergraduate students most experience. Without education the world will still be stagnant. Education and career work hand in hand; this is seen in students’ academic performance and career aspirations. Career is the sequence of occupations, jobs, and positions occupied during the course of a person’s working life. Career choice plays an important role in shaping the attitude of students towards any chosen discipline and in the subsequent achievement attained in the field. Many students fail because of an apparently unsuitable…

Teacher belief is a two way thing; some teachers have positive belief about them and their students while some believe that they cannot handle some irregularities in their classroom. One of the most tasking duties of any teacher is to manage their classrooms effectively; there may be a correlation between teachers’ belief, teaching techniques and classroom management.

TEACHER BELIEF

Teachers’ beliefs and teaching practices should be related in a meaningful way, as is the case for other teaching tasks, such as student assessment, in which conceptions of assessment and assessment practices are significantly associated. Teachers’ main argument for using such…

student characteristics is used in the sciences of learning and cognition to designate a target group of students and define those aspects of their personal, academic, social or cognitive self that may influence how and what they learn. Student characteristics are important for instructional designers as they allow them to design and create tailored instructions for a target group.

It is the expected that by taking account of the characteristics of students, more efficient, effective and/or motivating instructional materials can be designed and developed. Student characteristics can be personal, academic, social/emotional and/or cognitive in nature.

STUDENTS’ CHARACTERISTICS:

Personal characteristics

Personal…

Mathematics as a subject is one of the most interesting subjects in secondary and tertiary institutions in Nigeria. There is a correlation between mathematics and other science subjects such as physics, chemistry and biology and some social science subjects such as economics, accounting and banking and finance. Mathematics is very popular among science students; however most students shy away from mathematics; they tend to develop a kind of anxiety towards mathematics. The anxiety students develop for mathematics might because by several factors; it could be as a result of teachers experience, student-teacher relationship, poor mathematics background, experiences from past students…