The paper examined the effects of Mastery Learning Strategy (MLS) on secondary school students’ performance in Mathematics. It investigated differences in the performance of Mathematics students in conventional and MLS groups. The study adopted a pretest, posttest and control group quasi-experimental research design. The population for the study comprises all secondary school students in Ekiti State. 60 students were the sample selected using the stratified sampling technique. Achievement Test in Mathematics (ATM) was the instrument used for the study. The validity of the instrument was ensured by experts in Mathematics education while the reliability coefficient of 0.83 was obtained, which adjudged the instrument suitable for the study. The findings of the study revealed that there is a significant difference in post-test mean scores of students taught using MLS and the Conventional method. Also, there is no significant difference in the post-test and retention mean scores of students taught using the MLS and Conventional method. There is no significant difference in the post-test mean scores of male and female students taught using MLS and Conventional method. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that the use of MLS should be encouraged in Mathematics teaching.

This study investigated the performance measure and job constraints of women academics in the Nigeria universities. The purpose was to examine the constraints of women academics in their job performance in the universities. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to select three hundred academic women from SouthWest Universities. Data collected were analyzed and reliability coefficient by 0.87 was obtained. The questionnaire was administered on the respondents in the various institutions. Percentages were used to analyse demographic data and answer research questions, while, t-test and multiple regression were used for hypotheses at alpha level of 0.05. It was found that performance measure and job constraints among women in academic had enabled the women to look beyond their limitations and faced their world in academics with courage and passion in order to discharge their duties favorably with their men counterparts. Recommendations includes that researches done by women be less evaluated. Women achievement should be celebrated to encourage them for the major work done at home.

This study examined Programmed Instruction (PI) a panacea to students' dwindling interest in mathematics. Descriptive research of survey design was adopted for the study. A questionnaire was designed to collect data from a sample of seven hundred and fifty (750) respondents which include 700 Students and 50 Teachers from Public and Private Secondary Schools in Ado-Ekiti Local Government Area of Ekiti State in Nigeria. The study revealed that usage of programmed instruction beef up curiosity in mathematics students and resulted to greater retention and mastery of subject matter. Also, the study revealed that lack of trained personnel to help guide students in the use of programmed books, scarcity of programmed books in the society, high cost of procuring programmed books and machine and lack of necessary infrastructural facilities have been the factors militating against the implementation of programmed instruction in schools. Based on the findings, it was recommended that curriculum experts should develop various using the programmed instruction approach. Government should release fund for the development of programmed books and school authority should encourage their teachers to attend seminars and workshops, were they could gain knowledge of how to implement programmed instruction and other pedagogical skills that will enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics. Also, there should be provision of necessary infrastructural facilities in schools for easy implementation of programmed instruction.

The study examined the effects of graphic organizer and animation on students learning outcomes in Mathematics. The study employed pretest, post test quasi experimental design. The sample for this study consisted of 227 SSII students using multistage sampling procedure. One local government was randomly selected from the state together with three schools selected randomly with two experimental groups and one control group. Intact classes were used in each of the selected schools. Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT) and MathematicsAttitudinal Questionnaire (MAQ) were the instruments used to collect data for the study. The instruments were validated through the assistant of experts and the reliability coefficient of 0.81 and 0.76 were obtained respectively. The data collected was subjected to descriptive and inferential statistics, all at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that there is significant difference in the learning outcomes of students taught using graphic organizer, animation and conventional strategies. Based on the findings of this study, recommendations were made.

The study investigated an assessment of ICT skills needed for mathematical proficiency among secondary school students. Mathematics proficiency made up of procedural fluency (PF), conceptual understanding (CU), strategic competence (SC), adaptive reasoning (AR) and productive disposition (PD) were examined in the study. The research design employed was descriptive survey, as it enables the researcher describe the existing situation regarding participants’ opinion towards the integration of Information Communication Technology (ICT) into teaching and learning of mathematics. The population of this study consists of mathematics teachers and students of senior secondary schools in Ado-Ekiti Local Government of Ekiti State. The sample for the study consists of 1000 students selected from 189 public and private secondary schools in Ado-Ekiti. The instrument used in carrying out this research was a questionnaire on the level of students’ use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and mathematics proficiency. Face and content validity of the instrument was ascertained while the reliability of the instrument was ensured by administering it on 20 students outside the sample used in this study. The Pearson's Product Moment Correlation analysis was used which yielded a reliability co-efficient of 0.80. Data collected were analyzed using the descriptive statistics of frequency, percentage, and inferential statistics such as t-test, regression and analysis of variance. The findings of the study revealed that the procedural fluency in ICT makes students more effective in learning mathematics. Also, there were significant possible correlations among senior secondary school students’ conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, strategic competence, adaptive reasoning, productive disposition and performance in mathematics. Based on these findings, it was recommended that PF, CU, SC, AR and PD should be applied in order to achieved mathematics proficiency expectations and teachers and students should be skillful in ICT.