Lecturers’ bits of smiles: strategies of creating students’ invitation to learn in higher educational institutions in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper is on lecturer"s bits of smiles: Strategies of creating students invitation to learn in higher educational institutions in Nigeria.  Descriptive survey research design was used for this study.   Imo State University Owerri, is Among Universities in Nigeria. However, Imo State University Owerri was the university where the population and sample size of this study was selected.  One research question and one hypothesis guided this study.  Population of this study is 8,000 which comprised 4,500 males and 5,500 female students of Imo State University Owerri.   Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 20 male students each in social science education and life science education department departments. On the other hand, 26 female students each were selected from political science and economics departments, which gave sample size of 92 students as sample size.  Researcher developed questionnaire title” lecture's bits of smiles: Strategies of creating students invitation to learn in higher educational institutions in Nigeria” was used, with four rating scale of strongly agree, agree, dis agree and strongly disagree.  The instrument was validated by two specialists in Business Education, Madonna University Nigeria, Okija Campus, Anambra State. Cronbach alpha statistics was used to determine the reliability coefficient of this study at 0.78 and 0.97, which shows that the instrument was reliable for use on this study. The instrument was administered to the respondents with the help of two research assistants.  Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation.  Chi Square -test of independent was used to test the hypotheses.  Findings from this study revealed that lecturer’s occasional smiles create students engagement to learn.  It was recommended from this study that lecturer’s should have open mindedness to students. This would enable students explain their learning difficulties to lecturers and seek learning solutions from them.