October 2011

Attitude and motivation as predictors of academic achievement of students in clothing and textiles

This study investigated attitude and motivation as predictors of academic achievement of students in clothing and textiles. Three colleges of education in Edo and Delta States were randomly selected for use in this study. From each school, 40 students were selected from Year III using simple random technique yielding a total of 240 students. The instruments that were used to gather data for this research include...

Author(s): Uwameiye B. E. and Osho L. E.

October 2011

Grammatical errors produced by English majors: The translation task

This study investigated the frequency of the grammatical errors related to the four categories of preposition, relative pronoun, article, and tense using the translation task. In addition, the frequencies of these grammatical errors in different categories and in each category were examined. The quantitative component of the study further looked at the differences between literature and translation students in the...

Author(s): Hamid Mohaghegh, Fatemeh Mahmoudi Zarandi and Mohammad Shariati

October 2011

Reliability and validity towards environment attitude scale for secondary school students

This research, tries to develop an attitude scale (educational access schemes (EAS) for SS) which determines the approaches of secondary students for environment. First 400 secondary students were invited to write a composition named “The importance of environment and its position in our lives”. The compositions were examined one by one and a pre-pre-form as a draft that has 50 items was composed. This form...

Author(s): Abdulkadir Uzunöz