Advanced Journal of STEM Education

The Place of Makerspace of Stem Education in Nigeria

Moses Adenuga Adeniji — 2023-11-29

This research focus on the role of maker- space to promote Stem education in Nigeria, The target audience for the work is learners that are at the stage of learning who are involve in invention creation . Makerspace can be conceived as an avenue for inventors to use their inbuilt talents to bring up an innovation. The word STEM mean Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics a broad term from different disciplines put together under an umbrella of the word . STEM is a ubiquitous word that cuts across every facet of human existence beginning with conception, birthing process, activities that sorround growth and development for the realization of goals and human development in invention exercise.

STEM education is germane to the survival of every developed, under developed and developing nation hence the look at the state of STEM education globally, in the United State of America for instance it has helped her citizen to build a formidable education, health care, economy, social amenities and military system that drawn her strength from STEM education while in in India, Italy and Singapore, we have homogenous international set of comprehensive STEM standards and education for schools based on the demography, availability of resources, qualifications of facilitators and experiences of STEM educators.

While in Canada the youths disengage from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) studies before graduation from secondary schools, this is detrimental to the growth of the nation to therefore address the nation retraced its steps, determined to prepare the youth for a future where disruptive technologies and changes in the labour market will reward highly skilled workers. While in Africa the continent is lagging behind other continents of the world in scientific productivity and knowledge systems.. To achieve the expected the stakeholders the decision makers that focus on education of Africa must be willing to embrace STEM education in its totality and must be willing to make needed resources available for the development and growth of education in African continent.

Implementing Employability Skills Module in Aluminium Fabrication And Glazing Work In Nigerian Technical Colleges

Olusegun Olawale Olakotan — 2023-11-29

Facilities are essential ingredients for an all-round implementation of any skill-based programme in Technical and Vocational Education and Training. In this study, we want to ascertain the facilities that will be appropriate to implement employability skills module in aluminium fabrication in Nigerian technical colleges. Further, we employed Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to reveal that the identified facilities are appropriate for implementing employability skills module in aluminium fabrication having fulfilled all the conditions for convergent, construct and discriminant validity. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that the identified facilities be given priority and procured for the successful implementation of the employability skills module in aluminium fabrication and glazing work

Economics Teachers’ Awareness and Readiness Towards the Use of Podcasting for Teaching and Learning in Bodinga Local Government, Sokoto State-Nigeria

Ismaila Abdullahi Abubakar — 2023-11-29

This study investigated the economics teacher’s awareness and readiness toward the use of podcasting for teaching and learning in secondary schools in Bodinga’s local government area of Sokoto state, Nigeria. Descriptive survey research was used. Qualitative saved as a mode of data collection. The populations of the study were all from secondary schools in Bodinga local government area, the sample was drowned from four secondary schools in Bodinga local government, Sokoto state Nigeria. Eight economics teachers were used as samples, two from each secondary school. Three objectives and three research questions were formed to guide the study. Data Blank was used as an instrument for data collection, developed by the researchers. The instrument has two parts, A and B, part A is for demographic information by the respondents, while part B contained items on teachers’ awareness and readiness towards the use of podcasts for teaching and learning. The data obtained was analyzed. Results of the study showed that economics teachers are not aware of the use of podcasts for teaching and learning. It also revealed that economics teachers are ready to use podcasting in their teaching and learning. Economics teachers have no knowledge and skills regarding the use of Podcasting. The study recommends that economics teachers be mobilized and educated/trained on the use of podcasting for teaching and learning in secondary schools to improve teaching and learning.

Simply Calculating of dye adsorption in ZIF-8 based on external surface area

Ba Luan Tran — 2023-11-29

We use two kinds of ZIF-8 crystals in the different external surface area to examine adsorption performance for three kinds of dye (Rhodamine B -RB, methyl orange -MO and methylene blue -MB). A t-plot method was used to determine external surface area for these samples. By establishing the trend lines from dye adsorption capacities versus external surface area, it was suggested that the RB and MO covered only on external surface area, while MB adsorbed both of inside the structure of ZIF-8 and on the outer surface. Moreover, the detailed adsorption of three dyes on the sorbent can be simulated by this method. As result, the RB and MO occupied 4.7 and 7.9 nm2 of the external surface for each molecule, respectively while that of MB included both inside the ZIF-8 structure, at a loading of 0.11 molecule per unit cell, and on the external surface with 2.3 nm2/molecule).

Perception of University Lecturers on the Effectiveness of Remote Learning Technique for Teaching Educational Courses during Covid 19 Pandemic in the North Western Region of Nigeria.

Nasiru Dogondaji Muhammad — 2023-11-29

Abstract

This Study investigated Perception of University Lecturers on the Effectiveness of Remote Learning Technique for Teaching Educational Courses during Covid 19 pandemic in the North western Region of Nigeria. The study was guided by three objectives, three research questions and two null hypotheses. Descriptive survey research design was employed in the study. The population of the study were 977 lecturers. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample. From the population of 977, samples of 349 lecturers were selected for the study. The instrument used for data collection was adapted. Data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and chi-square of inferential statistics was for testing Research hypotheses. The major findings of the study revealed that, lecturers were aware of Remote learning model but they were not utilising Remote learning model in teaching their courses during covid-19 pandemic. Similarly, majority of the lecturers’ encountered different challenges in utilising Remote learning model for teaching where by lack of constant electricity supply is one of the major challenges. Moreover, the findings showed that, there is no significance difference between lecturers’ awareness and unawareness of remote learning.