Browsing by Author "Olujuwon, Tola"

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    Assessing the Management of Motivational Needs and Career Aspirations of In-Service Teacher Trainees of Lagos State Junior Secondary Schools
    (Faculty of Education, University of Benin, Benin-City, Nigeria, 2018-11) Ogunjimi, Mayowa Olurotimi; Olujuwon, Tola; Udofia, Imoh Godwin
    Motivation is understood as a concept of management practice used to enhance productivity at work place. Therefore, this study examines the motivational needs and career aspirations of in-service teachers of Lagos State junior secondary schools. The study is a descriptive survey research design. the population of the study consists of all in-service teachers of Lagos State junior secondary schools that are undertaking sandwich degree programmes while a sample of 240 in-service teachers was selected purposively across each of the six educational districts in the State. A self-constructed questionnaire titled "In-Service Teachers' Motivational Needs and Career Aspirations Questionnaire" (ITMNCAQ) was used for data collection. The Cronbach Alpha reliability value of the instrument is 0.73. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to test the stated hypothesis. The findings of the study revealed that counselling by people around and family members is the most significant motivational needs of in-service teachers while the highly rated career aspiration is finding stable economic security in teaching. A significant relationship was established between motivational needs and career aspirations of in-service teachers. It was recommended that in-service teachers motivational needs in the teaching profession should influence the way schools prepare and plan their curricula. The school management should increase the number of developmental programmes and develop career counselling strategies to enhance in-service teachers self-efficacy in several aspects of the teaching profession.
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    Digital Learning Devices Utilization and Learning Effectiveness amidst COVID-19 Pandemic in Universities in Kwara State, Nigeria
    (Department of Educational Management, University of Ibadan, Nigeria., 2021) Ojo, Olubukola James; Atolagbe, Adetiba .A; Olujuwon, Tola; Awodiji, Omotayo
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    Influence of Systems Approach on Teachers’ Effectiveness in Lagos State Colleges of Education
    (Published by the Faculty of Education, University of Lagos, Akoka-Lagos, Nigeria, 2019) Ogunjimi, Mayowa; Olujuwon, Tola; Udofia, Richard
    The study examined the influence of systems approach on teachers' effectiveness in colleges of education. A survey type of descriptive research design was used while the target population comprised of final year teacher trainees from Colleges of Education in Lagos State. A fifteen item self-constructed questionnaire on a 4-point Likert scale was used for data collection. Content Validity was carried out by four experts in Measurement and Evaluation while the final draft of the instrument was tested on a sample of thirty students different from those used in the main study in order to determine the reliability using Cronbach Alpha reliability method which yielded an index of 0.89. Data collected were analyzed and tested at 0.05 level of significance through Pearson Product Moment Correlation Statistical Analysis. The findings revealed that the educational system can be improved when a system approach to teaching is well embraced and that the approach promotes quality teaching and learning in the colleges. It concludes that the system approach goes a long way to improve teacher effectiveness and recommends that periodic assessment of system approach to education should be carried out in other to keep abreast of the dynamics of teaching methodology, curriculum change, and use of technology in the classroom among others.