Educational Technology

The study undertaken the explored the factors of Quality of working-life experiences in organizations. The factor analysis of the component ‘quality of working-life experiences’ led to the extraction of the factors from various organizations. The most points were “Career Growth”, “Work Stress” and “Job Satisfaction”. The results indicate that these factors have substantial roles to play in satiating the needs of the employees and how at middle managerial level different aspects are valued and employed for developing a unique and inimitable quality of working life within their socio-technical systems for eliciting favorable job-related responses.

It is imperative that competent teacher educators are hired by teacher preparation institutions so as to mentor student teachers appropriately. It is expected that a well trained-educator, models teaching practices as it should be in secondary schools. However, some of the teacher-educators are not trained teachers, which raises the question; who should prepare these teachers? This paper sought to establish the factors that influence competence among teacher educators in universities. The study was conducted in six selected universities in Kenya. The research paradigm adopted for this study was social constructivism worldview. The study adopted a descriptive survey design with asample that comprised of Bachelor of Education fourth year students drawn from three Public universities and three Private universities, Teacher Educators and Heads of Departments from the faculty of Education. Stratified random sampling was used to select universities, student-teacher and Teacher Educators. Data was collected using questionnaires, interview schedules, observation checklists and document analysis. It is strongly recommended that teacher education programmes should be urgently reviewed by addressing the various factors that are affecting preparation of teachers at university level. It is hoped that the finding of this study will be useful to University curriculum planners and teacher educators in designing courses that are responsive to the needs of the society.

The country, Kenya, has implemented a policy of free primary education. This is meant to make basic formal education accessible to all. These considerations need to be looked at against the backdrop of the tenets agreed on by Education for All (EFA) and the Education Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The year agreed on for attaining these goals is 2015 and it is fast approaching. In the year 2000, at the World Forum on Education in Dakar, Senegal, over one thousand participants agreed to work cooperatively to help developing nations achieve six education-related goals. Among the goals were, “a call to support early childhood education… basic life skills, adult literacy … and education quality.”

This research is about student’s perception and job search skills and achievement in the 21st century career at Science School of Batu Pahat in sport’s courses. The design is quantitative with 150 student to answer the questionnaire. The skills that they are acquired to express is in marathon and soccer. 4 criterion plan "21st century classroom are core subjects and themes, learning skills and innovation, and information technology skills and career and life skills (Smith, 2008). ). Later, the participants held a quasi experimental before "21st century classroom" held (pretest) and joint 21st century classroom (post-test) were measured using both questionnaires is done online ie before and after the learning and teaching take place on skill attainment search work and career.

The study sought to explore reflective pedagogical needs of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) lecturers for promoting creativity in teacher education in south-south Nigeria. Four research questions and four hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study was 217 TVET lecturers, consisted of 165 TVET lecturers from Colleges of Education and 52 TVET lecturers as experts form Vocational Education University of Uyo. Using simple random technique, the sample size consisted of 80 TVET lecturers from Colleges of Education and 42 TVET lecturers form Vocational Education University of Uyo. A-40 item structured questionnaire instrument tagged Reflective Pedagogical Questionnaire (REPEQ) was used to collect data from the respondents. The instrument was validated by two experts from Vocational Education, University of Uyo, Nigeria and one expert from Vocational Teacher Education University of Nigeria, Nsukka. A reliability coefficient of 0.82 was obtained after trial test. The research questions were answered using Improvement Need Index (INI) while Z-test was used to test the hypothesis at .05 level of significance. The findings of the study showed that peer observation skill, lesson recording skill, teachers’ dairy and evaluation skills of reflective pedagogy were needed by TVET lecturers for promoting creativity in College of Education, South-South Nigeria. It was recommended that the officials of state the Ministry of Education in conjunction with Faculty of Education in the Federal Universities should embark on massive training and re-training of TVET lecturers in College of Education, in the reflective pedagogy skills. It was concluded that the COE lecturers should be abreast with the innovative pedagogy for the 21st century instructional delivery.

The central purpose of education is to help individuals make necessary adjustments towards a constant changing environment. e-learning is efficient as it eliminates distance and subsequent commutes. The different types of e-learning are based on, means of communication, schedule, e-learning class structure and technologies applied. Positive attitudes can help teachers to deal with the new situation with less stress and so enable them to take steps appropriately in tune with the need of the students and the institution. In this view point the researchers have undertaken this study. The present study was conducted in New Delhi and 800 senior secondary level school students were selected. The descriptive study method was adopted; stratified random sampling technique was used in selecting the samples. A well-designed and pre-tested questionnaire was used to collect primary data. The result revealed that Students’ personal variables such as, gender, subject specialization, parents’ education, parents’ monthly income and school management are differed significantly among themselves. Suitable suggestions are given to improve students’ attitude towards e-learning paradigm.

Nowadays, literacy is one of the major challenges that society has been faced, especially in developing countries and on the other hand literacy and learning science are considered as important factors in social, economic, and cultural development of anyone. In this regard, the institution of education in the community can have an inevitable role in the education of the people. Teacher as an influential factor in education can play a unique role in the activities of the Literacy Movement. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the role of teachers in the education of illiterates in community and the reason of their lack of participation in this process. The methodology of this study is functional based on the purpose and based on the nature, is descriptive - analytical. This study used documental and field studies to gather data. In order to achieve the objectives of this study in field studies a questionnaire has been used to gather data. The population of this study are teachers of Shabankareh (385 people). 193 teachers was selected based on Cochran formula and the random sampling method, for example, then the questionnaire was distributed among the target teachers and collected data were analyzed based on SPSS software (Spearman correlation coefficient was used to evaluate the hypothesis of the test) and finally recommendations and solutions have been presented to achieve the optimal level of educating the illiterate in society. The results of this study have showed that there is a significant relationship between the lack of proper planning and the participation of teachers in Literacy Movement activities. Given the importance of reducing illiteracy in the society and its role in the comprehensive development of society, the need for proper planning by relevant authorities strongly has been felt.

Lesson interpretation is an effective teaching and research activity performed by teachers. Physics teachers’ lesson interpretation aims to represent, explain or translate content and knowledge of physic by their own strategies and methods. Lesson interpretation has played a leading role in educating normal students in physics. In order to cultivate excellent physics teachers, normal universities should strengthen the teaching and practice of lesson interpretation.

The current paper is a helping attempt to facilitate those students who are interested in the field of research especially for the partial fulfillment of the degree requirement. In most of the universities of different countries degrees are awarded after conducting a research thesis, but mostly student face problems in the selection and preparation of research proposals. Most of the time supervisors show the negligence for helping the students that, from which area they can select the topic of the research due to which the students who don’t have mastery in the field of research they get confuse and tense. The objectives of this paper were: to highlight the sources for the selection of the topic from different areas, to highlight the steps of the preparation of the research proposal, to give the general steps for preparing the research proposal. The nature of this paper is theoretical for which relevant literature is explored. This paper will help out the researchers for selecting an appropriate way for the selection and preparation of research proposal.

This study was to assess the adequacy of human and material resources for effective implementation of physics curriculum. Four colleges of educations were randomly sampled in four states. Teachers’ opinions questionnaire was used to collect relevant data. Frequency count and percentages were used to analyze the data collected. The result shows that laboratories, school library sizes and non- teaching staff were moderately adequate and science journal was inadequate. It was recommended that lapses in each of the colleges need immediate amelioration for quantitative education.