July 2010

Active learning

Active learning refers to models of instruction that focus the responsibility of learning on students by allowing students to engage in learning that promotes higher-order thinking. Active learning involves learner-centeredness, and occurs within the classroom, as well as outside the classroom. By active learning, students not only become engaged with the ideas being communicated among themselves, and between the...

Author(s): Icy D’Silva

July 2010

Principals’ leadership styles and teachers’ job performance in senior secondary schools in Ondo State, Nigeria

This paper investigated principals’ leadership styles and teachers’ job performance in senior secondary schools in Ondo State, Nigeria. The study population comprised all the 281 secondary schools in the State. Out of this population, a sample of 240 senior secondary schools was taken and selected through the stratified random sampling technique. Out of 7460 teachers (including principals) in the schools, a...

Author(s): T. O. Adeyemi