TAILIEUCHUNG - Academic performance of students admitted with different entry certificate in Nigeria certificate in education programme in federal college of education (technical), Omoku

This study atempted to determine the levels of academic performance of two groups of students admited with diferent entry certfcates to the Nigeria certfcate in Educaton (NCE) Technical Programme and to fnd out whether either group difered signifcantly in terms of performance. Seventy (70) frst year Technical students at the Federal College of Educaton (Technical), Omoku, were monitored during the 2011/2012 academic year for the purposes of this study. The data consisted of raw scores obtained by these students in fve (5) courses. | Journal of Technology and Science Education ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS ADMITTED WITH DIFFERENT ENTRY CERTIFICATES TO THE NIGERIAN CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION PROGRAMME AT THE FEDERAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (TECHNICAL), OMOKU Japo Oweikeye Morto Amasuomo Departament of Vocatonal/Industrial Educaton, Faculty of Educaton, Niger Delta University. Nigeria japoamasuomo@ Received December 2013 Accepted January 2014 Abstract This study atempted to determine the levels of academic performance of two groups of students admited with diferent entry certfcates to the Nigeria certfcate in Educaton (NCE) Technical Programme and to fnd out whether either group difered signifcantly in terms of performance. Seventy (70) frst year Technical students at the Federal College of Educaton (Technical), Omoku, were monitored during the 2011/2012 academic year for the purposes of this study. The data consisted of raw scores obtained by these students in fve (5) courses. The data were analysed according to their arithmetc means and a t-test. The reliability of t-test results were ascertained by the use of an f-test of group variances. The study established that the secondary school certfcate students performed signifcantly beter than their City and Guilds certfcate counterparts, and both groups difered signifcantly in other aspects of academic performance. Keywords – performance, academic qualifcaton, entry qualifcaton, prior educaton ---------- 1 INTRODUCTION Human civilizaton is quite ofen linked to technological advances and developments. Technical educaton is thus an instrument of technological advancement and industrialisaton (Amasuomo & Biebuma, 1990). This has been corroborated by Ifejika (1990), who reported that the key manpower needed for the rapid development of a naton is technical in nature. This is because it is the technical manpower that induces the acceleraton of scientfc and technological development; in order for a country to advance technologically, it .

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• Journal of technology and science education
• Academic performance of students admitted
• Different entry certificate in Nigeria certificate
• Education programme in federal college of education
• Federal college of education
• The role of informal science centers in science education
• Informal science center
• Attudes toward science
• Scientfic thinking skills
• Emotional responses to innovative Science teaching methods
• Acquiring emotional data
• General Science teacher education class
• Gamification oral presentation
• ICT and inclusive education
• Attitudes of the teachers in secondary education
• The teachers in secondary education
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Field of great scientific interest
• Bring science and technology closer to secondary school
• Technology closer to secondary school
• Secondary school teachers
• Face to face
• Integrating Technology in STEM Education
• The STEM felds
• Efectve classroom experience
• Hands on experiments
• Technology in a model of formative assessment
• Technology in assessment
• European Higher Education Area
• The Computer Engineering
• ‘Standards’ on the bench
• Technological literacy render an adequate image of technology
• Adequate image of technology
• Standards for technological literacy
• Philosophy of technology
• The nature of technology
• Concepts of technology
• Post secondary project based learning in science
• Post secondary project based learning in technology
• Post secondary project based learning in engineering and mathematics
• Post secondary project
• JOTSES internationalisation Goal achieved
• The volumes issues
• Technology and science education
• Analyzing JOTSEs evolution
• Education students think about their ability to write essays
• Education students think
• Write academic essays
• Descriptive cross sectional
• Best practices in academic assessment in higher education
• A case in formative and shared assessment
• Academic assessment in higher education
• Both students and professors
• Proposals for improving evaluation systems in higher education
• Improving evaluation systems in higher education An approach
• The model Working with People
• The Educational Innovation Department
• Joint work among lecturers
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• Research tool in social science didactics
• Social science didactics
• Insofar identifies strengths
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• Making Capstone project a holistic learning experience
• Students of undergraduate computer science engineering program
• Undergraduate computer science engineering programs
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• The impact of environmental resource learning
• Geometry in education for power and citizenship
• Power and citizenship
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• Completely randomized design
• Technological or tradicional tools for documents corrections
• A Case study in higher education
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• Linking climate change education through the integration
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• Analyzing remote sensing data
• Sales education beyond the classroom
• Building participative learning experiences
• Sales management through the CMGS method
• Method with guest speakers
• Evaluation of project based learning
• The area of manufacturing
• Statistics in the degree of industrial technology
• The degree of industrial technology
• Industrial Engineering of Barcelona
• Journal of Science and Technology
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Higher education institution
• Critical success factors
• Science learning motivation as correlate of students’ academic performances
• Students’ academic performances
• Biological Science students
• Specific skills and general
• The influence of Korean Middle School students relationship
• Science class applying STAD cooperative learning
• The communication network change
• STAD Cooperative Learning
• The effectiveness of multiple intelligences based teaching strategy
• Enhancing the multiple intelligences
• Science process skills
• Junior High School students