An Appraisal of the Degree of School Effectiveness among Secondary Schools of Zamfara State, Nigeria

This study was conducted purposely to assess the degree of school effectiveness among public secondary schools of Zamfara State, Nigeria. In order to achieve this fundamental objective, one research question was formulated. A descriptive survey research design was adopted in the study. Population of the study comprised the entire 2361 classroom teachers deployed in the 158 public secondary schools of Zamfara State-Nigeria. From the population of the study, a sample size of 266 teachers was extracted using a ‘Multistage Random Sampling Technique’. A semi-structured questionnaire developed by Lezzote and Snyder (2011) on a five Likert type scale instrument with 21 items was employed as an instrument for data collection. The instrument composite reliability was computed using Cronbach’s alpha method and obtained the value of .949. All data covered in the study were collected through a field survey approach. Analytically, the current study discovered that, the degree of school effectiveness was at a high extent with mean score (M=3.68, SD=0.15). Based on this finding, the paper recommends that, stakeholders in educational sector comprising government’s ministries, departments and agencies, policymakers, secondary schools’ principals, instructional teachers as well as the learners and their parents/guardians should reciprocally work together in the process of appropriate perpetration and advancement of effective school system and its practices.

Some Rare Decays of Particles within R-Parity Violating Super-Symmetric Model

Some Rare Decays of Particles within R-parity violating Super-symmetric Model This thesis compares experimental studies of two and three body leptonic decays of mesons (B and K) with theoretical predictions of R-parity violating Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Observables like branching fraction, forward backward asymmetry and polarization asymmetry are studied regarding these decays. Forward backward asymmetry is found to be significant in the case of K ± → π ± μ+μ− only and vanishingly small in case of B ± → K ± μ+μ−. Polarization asymmetry has also been studied in this research work. It is found to be significant only for two body leptonic decays and comparable with standard model in case of three body leptonic decay of mesons. An error analysis of the branching fraction and CP-asymmetry has also been made for three body leptonic decay of mesons. Theoretical predictions for both branching fraction and CP-asymmetry agree well with present experimental data.