Thursday, August 23, 2012 3:41:00 PM
evaluation, pragmatic approaches, educational system, criterion reference
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Experience has shown that, there are, of-course, differences among educational systems in Nigerian schools from one state to other (Private and Public schools) the industrial sectors, the university etc. They differ in size from 20 (twenty) students to those with more than 40 (forty) to 1,000 per class, found in secondary schools and tertiary institutions.... Some educational systems offer:-
(a) generalized content, others
(b) very technical and specific contents……
The concomitant effects today are that all educational system shares in having a degree of imperfection in the extent to which they accomplish their goals. With the changes demand in admission into different educational system, it is neither possible nor appropriate for educational system to be perfect, for perfection (in Engineering) is static……Therefore it will probably be fair and reasonable to conclude that these societal changes produce cotemporal evaluation procedure problems and issues since Nigeria independence. These elements of the problems and issues developed the products and philosophy of the normative testing movement (in which our colleges of Education, Technical Teachers colleges, Polytechnics and Universities are having the familiar products of norm reference) which we are now seen as certificates ratchetings and examinations mal practices…
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Sunday, July 1, 2012 6:04:07 AM
Lecture Notes, Work-holder, end life, Manufacture
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The difficulty encountered in holding awkwardly shaped work-pieces in vices, compelled most operators to hold the work-piece with their hands, similar forces in milling and shaping are also found in drilling causing a large number of drills to break and end their life therefore, the design of a universal work clamp as integral part of the Drilling Machine was harness, with a view of producing an efficient condition... Detail drawings of the design and assemble drawing presented...the clamp was manufacture and tested with satisfactory results and reliability
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011 6:24:18 PM
test-takers, depositors’ money, creativity, exam-holist
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Our educational sets up in Nigeria are bad. In the set up, we create nothing but test-takers and exam-holist…cramming their minds with useless facts which have no meaning or use for the student to restate in test and examinations…..
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Monday, October 3, 2011 11:23:16 AM
adjustment, abilities, useful assessment, person free will
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Guidance as a subject matter is a new corner in our schools system and the society: recently introduce and being appropriated in colleges of education and the university as an innovation in our educational system… preparing and directing a person free will…useful assessment of the pupil/student adjustment in class… so that they function within limits of their abilities ….work through adolescence to function as a well adjusted adult member of society…
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Monday, September 26, 2011 6:54:32 AM
product evaluation, process evaluation, combination of both process and product evaluation, evaluating skills
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not many teachers understand the meaning of process/product technique of evaluation of practical skill:....student are encouraged to buy and present ready-made materials for their grades in practical skills. ...teachers agreed that the combination of both process and product evaluation technique is the most effective method in evaluating skills.
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Monday, September 26, 2011 5:03:41 AM
success, supervision, Instructional, judgment
Experience has shown that the Vocational/Technical teacher (processes and product) teaching in the school workshop/laboratory aims for success; while the other teachers observed in classroom interactions with students aims mostly for the exercise of judgment generally....
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Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:07:47 PM
Pedagogies, Structuring, curricular, Effective
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The general rule observed in Nigeria educational policies progress report of Northern Nigeria 1952; Review of Educational system in Eastern Nigeria, 1962; The Taiwo committee, 1968; Recommendation of the 1969,... is that all attempts at curriculum development have to start of a more functional processes in terms of the needs of the child and the community i.e. to start by accepting the challenges of competence training at primary school level.
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Sunday, August 7, 2011 12:41:14 PM
rejection of graduates, Engineering, Nigerian “engineers’” quacks, incapability of rendering qualitative services
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closure of our institution of higher (Tertiary) learning for at least one year renovation for re-direction in policy and curricular of tertiary education system, this in view of the reported rejection {of our graduates of Tertiary Education} on the ground of increasing incapability of rendering qualitative services in their disciplines... because the government of Nigeria doesn’t want to be embarrassed with spate of rejection of our Nigerian graduate.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010 10:53:54 AM
misuse depositors money, syllabuses do not serve their purpose, educational changes needs, Critical Theory and Critical teaching in Nigerian
The world today is different, as we knew it before, courtesy science and Technology -that made her a village…do we refuse to make changes that the young Nigerian will grow in...? … the old cloths (our educational set up) are bad; they just do not serve their purpose any longer…In the set up, we create nothing but test-takers and exam-holist…. People cut corners and use quacks..., Banks misuse depositors’ money..., and appointments are not by merits… Governors not obeying legislated set Laws...some professor(s) who are only interested in crushing dreams, stealing ideas and validating their own ego....
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:47:17 PM
lack of foresight in educational matters, ethnical politics, quarter systems, religious extremism
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we learned that Nigerians came in touch Firstly with merchants, next came Religious nationalism later Imperial Government, politically; lately education, introduced for training citizens for the Imperial selfishness not to serve in the supply of trained, authentic work force to develop the Nigeria economy but imperial interest. These yielded the present derailment in cutting corners, lack of foresight in educational matters, religious extremism, ethnical politics, quarter systems, incompetent legislators we are struggling to correct with less sincerity's to Vocational Technical Education.
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Friday, September 17, 2010 7:32:30 AM
step to wrong answers, use of science or mathematics, Science environment, rote/cramming experts
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when Students cannot recognise and be able to see the immediate use of science or mathematics [Subject theory] to the need of everyday life with practical approach, definitely will be the first step to wrong answers, and to what the theory of such science is all about[instead cramming their minds with useless facts which has no mining or use for the student to restate in test and examinations]
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Friday, January 15, 2010 9:55:53 AM
Technical Education blurring without much meaning, Technical Education...recent goal trends effects i, Changes can negatively be seen in technical, syllabus in Automobile
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syllabus on Automobile mechanic,-with-cultural exploitation,-plus-globalise industrial technology,-made today the- syllabus blurring without much meaning to the economic and social development, Changes can negatively be seen in the functional education,-which the National Policy on Educaton advocated for-for- forty six (46)years after the declaration of technical education,-in Nigeria-three recent goal trends....
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:21:01 PM
teaching methodology, evolutional modal adopted, location of technical subject, ability with opportunities to also asses their wor
vocational education brings about a roller – sharp changes, both for the individual and for any sovereign nation economically,...therefore becomes of paramount importance to its citizens. Technical education, which focuses on competency and manipulative industrial skill: have to be intense, well handled by the Nigerian citizens and government, in the educational policies...teaching of vocational technical education shows that for the government of Kaduna state to prosper in its mission of technical education implementation. It should improve on process of ‘allocation’ using appropriate facilities context...both for intended and intentional student learning activities...with interest for continuous learning through out one’s life...and to know the criteria by which their learning is assess and their ability with opportunities to also asses their work
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Thursday, January 7, 2010 4:18:35 PM
sexual immorality and the like, graft free academic pursuits, examination malpractices, resort to begging
situation where an academician resort to begging to afford the cost of medical care, send children to school, feed and clothe them does not bring about a graft free academic pursuits...exploitation of new technology (as gadgets)and ambition for modern facilities...make the academicians crave for pleasure; leisure and comfortable living...students are not left behind making many students not to study hard; hence they resort to examination malpractices, cheating, sexual immorality and the like....
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Thursday, January 7, 2010 10:45:28 AM
Without good teachers, Schools/Universities are doomed to fail. Yet politicians in Nigeria seem determined to destroy the standards of the profession to international standard. Read more...
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