Ahmad Abdullahi Ibrahim

This paper gives an overview on the development of Islamic Education Curriculum in Nigeria. The paper examines the developmental structure of Islamic Education curriculum by taking cognizance in to three epochs; pre-colonial, during colonial and post-colonial. However, inhibitive factors affecting efficacious development of the curriculum are chronicled especially in this era which is full of reformation and dynamism. Finally, possible solutions are offered on best to move Islamic Education Curriculum forward in Nigeria.

This study attempts to highlight the trend of research in science related subjects specifically in schools. Articles and journals were retrieved from Google scholar under peer reviewed with the aim to highlight the trend of research methods, findings and teaching strategies. The themes were based on pedagogical approaches of teaching science, students’ motivation in learning sciences and challenges hindering effectiveness of teaching sciences. The paper contributes to policy makers and science teachers to employ appropriate strategies and integrate suitable technologies for teaching science in secondary schools. Based on the content analysis, tables are provided to summarise the research trend and findings. It has been found that the trend of low interest in learning science is still apparent for the past five years. The barriers of effective teaching and motivation have been the main discussion among researchers. Recommendations have been drawn to ensure teachers to involve in acti...

Islamic education. Such objective is difficult to be achieved through the adoption of traditional approach of teaching. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effect of instructional video drama in instilling Islamic ethics among secondary school students in Kano state of Nigeria. 60 students from School for Arabic Studies were randomly selected and assigned into control and experimental group. The researcher adopted lottery method of random sampling to select the subjects for the experimentation. A survey using adapted questionnaire measuring students’ willingness towards the observance of Islamic was administered to the students of both control and experimental group. For the triangulation purpose, one on one interview was carried out to support the quantitative result. The data was analyzed using independents sample t-test to find out statistically significant difference of the mean score between the two groups. Moreover, inductive analysis technique was employed to analys...

This study aims to explore the impact of the adoption of Bagdadi method on tahfiz students’ intrinsic motivation and their ability to master Qur’an recitation. To achieve the aim, the researcher purposively selected and interviewed a number of tahfiz teachers and students from Sekola Dar-Al Muhibbeen, Kuala Lumpur to examine how learning by Bagdadi method influence students’ intrinsic motivation. Besides that, non participant observations were conducted to ensure the trustworthiness of the data. The data were collected, transcribed, coded and separated, and then analyzed using inductive analysis model. The findings show that the use of Bagdadi intrinsically motivates tahfiz students to learn reading Qur’an; enable them to read Qur’an within one month especially those with good psychomotor skills and students perceive learning with Bagdadi is easy and funny as it gives them happiness and enjoyment in the classroom. Finally, this research helps tahfiz teachers in boosting up their int...

The book considers the key issues in the field of educational technology, and addresses some fundamental but often unconvinced questions about the ever-growing use of technology in education. It focuses on the social as well as technical aspect of these issues, giving careful thought to the people, practice, processes and structures behind the use of technology in education. Some of the key issues and debates considered in the book are: will technology replace school or a university? Can technology address the many educational problems and inequality faced by people around the world? Does technology make learning fairer? What do we really know about learning and technology? Selwyn takes a critical look at some of the major debate concerning digital technology and education.

The World Muslim Conference held in Mecca in 1977 provided impetus for the development of holistic individuals through curriculum reform and the establishment of International Islamic University in Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uganda. Subsequently, more Islamic Universities were established in other Muslim countries. In Nigeria, Alhikma University, Ilorin and Al-Qalam University, Katsina were established. One of the objectives of these Universities is to produce more Muslim graduates who can compete with their counterparts in any academic discipline besides their background in Islamic education and to better serve humanity. These objectives may not be achieved without proper adoption of instructional strategies that suits 21st century students. Therefore, this paper aims to discover the issues faced by the lecturers of Al-Qalam University in adopting the instructional strategies in teaching. A number of lecturers and administrators were purposely selected and interviewed. The ...

Nowadays, teachers face a lot of challenges of their being held accountable for their students’ academic achievement and the existing chances to teach beyond traditional methods through the use of innovative instructional technology and media. However, Instructional Design Models help teachers to provide systematic way or approach for effective utilization and implementation of educational media and technology in teaching. Therefore, this paper gives an overview of three Instructional Design Models (System Approach, Kemp, and ASSURE Instructional Design Models) followed by comparison and contrasting differences between the models. So, it might be helpful for teachers to select more appropriate model for integrating technological gadgets into their teaching. 1.

Due to flexibility and vitality nature of the field of educational technology, many attempts have being made by professionals of the field to define educational technology prior to 1960 to date for the purpose of providing a well comprehensive definition of the field which is suitable to the particular period of time. But, in recent years many literatures of the field (especially in Nigeria) outdated definitions are being used to define the filed which do not comprehensively cover the scope of the field nowadays. Thus, this paper elaborates the evolutionary nature of the definition of educational technology, and analyses the differences between each of the definitions. This might be helpful for the professionals of the field to be fully aware of the changing nature of the field, and be able to produce another definition by themselves in the future.

s-The paper presents validation study to determine psychometric adequacy of a measure of Social Media on Academic Attainment among university students. A sample of 200 undergraduate students from Northwest University, Kano was drawn through random sampling. The internal consistency index of the measure was found satisfactory with 0.76. Moreover, the instrument demonstrates acceptable psychometric properties and four distinct factors that reflect the influence of social media on academic attainment with access to social media trust being the most important. The Exploratory Factor Analysis identified four factors labeled as 'access to social media', 'academic communication', 'exposure' and 'academic attainment' explaining 24.11%, 13.50%, 10.30% and 8.69% of the variances respectively. Moreover, the instrument demonstrates factorial validity, construct validity and structure of measures of constructs and the four factor solution explains 56.61% total of variance.

This study aims to explore the impact of the adoption of Bagdadi method on tahfiz students' intrinsic motivation and their ability to master Qur'an recitation. To achieve the aim, the researcher purposively selected and interviewed a number of tahfiz teachers and students from Sekola Dar-Al Muhibbeen, Kuala Lumpur to examine how learning by Bagdadi method influence students' intrinsic motivation. Besides that, non participant observations were conducted to ensure the trustworthiness of the data. The data were collected, transcribed, coded and separated, and then analyzed using inductive analysis model. The findings show that the use of Bagdadi intrinsically motivates tahfiz students to learn reading Qur'an; enable them to read Qur'an within one month especially those with good psychomotor skills and students perceive learning with Bagdadi is easy and funny as it gives them happiness and enjoyment in the classroom. Finally, this research helps tahfiz teachers in boosting up their interest to use Bagdadi in their teaching.

The study aims to identify the trends of researches on the use of WhatsApp in education which were published between the years 2013 and 2017 and to guide researchers who are forecasting to conduct their research in the specified area to identify key areas needed for further investigation in the area. The data obtained through open source online publications like Google Scholar is presented in table using descriptive statistics in forms of frequency and percentage. The research findings show that most of the researches were carried out in 2016. It is also revealed that most of the studies were conducted on using WhatsApp for teaching languages especially English language. Similarly, the results show that majority of the studies in the area are quantitative in nature; questionnaire and test-scores are the main instruments used for data collection; a descriptive analysis method is most employed techniques of data analysis of the studies. With regard to sample group, undergraduate students were selected as research participants in most of the studies. Finally, the study offers the necessary recommendations for researchers on the use of WhatsApp in education.

This paper reviews the current state of the art for coronary stent materials and surface coatings, with an emphasis on new technologies that followed on from first-generation bare metal and drug-eluting stents. These developments have been driven mainly by the need to improve long term outcomes, including late stent thrombosis. Biodegradable drug-eluting coatings aim to address the long term effects of residual durable polymer after drug elution; the SYNERGY, BioMatrix, and Nobori stents are all promising devices in this category, with minimal polymer through the use of abluminal coatings. Textured stent surfaces have been used to attached drug directly, without polymer; the Yukon Choice and BioFreedom stents have some promising data in this category, while a hydroxyapatite textured surface has had less success. The use of drug-filled reservoirs looked promising initially but the NEVO device has experienced both technical and commercial set-backs. However this approach may eventuall...

The purpose of this research is to explore the impact of instructional video drama integration in teaching Islamic studies to enhance students' intrinsic motivation. Random sampling technique was employed by the researcher to select 60 subjects of the study from School for Arabic studies, Kano. Similarly, the subjects were randomly designated into either control or experimental group. After the experiment, an adapted questionnaire measuring students' intrinsic motivation was administered to both groups. To add more validity to quantitative data, three students were purposely selected from the experimental group and interviewed on the effect of the video on their intrinsic motivation. Independent sample t-test is a statistical tool used by the researcher to determine statistically significant difference of the mean score between the experimental and control group. Besides that, inductive analysis technique was employed to analyse qualitative data (interview). The result revealed the corroboration between the two data sets (survey and interview). Students in the experimental group reported higher intrinsic motivation than those in the control group. Thus, it could be concluded that the video has a significant effect on enchasing students' intrinsic motivation while learning Islamic studies and this study serves as a bench mark for integrating instructional video drama in teaching Islamic studies in secondary schools.

The World Muslim Conference held in Mecca in 1977 provided impetus for the development of holistic individuals through curriculum reform and the establishment of International Islamic University in Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uganda. Subsequently, more Islamic Universities were established in other Muslim countries. In Nigeria, Alhikma University, Ilorin and Al-Qalam University, Katsina were established. One of the objectives of these Universities is to produce more Muslim graduates who can compete with their counterparts in any academic discipline besides their background in Islamic education and to better serve humanity. These objectives may not be achieved without proper adoption of instructional strategies that suits 21 st century students. Therefore, this paper aims to discover the issues faced by the lecturers of Al-Qalam University in adopting the instructional strategies in teaching. A number of lecturers and administrators were purposely selected and interviewed. The findings show that lack of support from the university management, crowded learning environment and lack of teaching professionalism are some of the issues that hinder the effective instructional strategies. Finally, the paper provides suggestions for better improvement of the university and on how get rid of the issues of instructional strategies.

Few topics in the social sciences came up with more controversies than the influence of nature-nurture conflicts on child intelligence. There has been an old debate among Psychologists, is intelligence a product of nature (heredity) or nurture (environment). Psychologists stalemate, Scholars like Descartes are the proponents of nature, whereas people like Locke advocates nurture. Notwithstanding, Islam believes that, " the horns of a dilemma are usually on the same bull. " Therefore, this paper discusses the concept of intelligence is-à-is the nature-nurture conflict reflecting the evidences propose by each of the belligerent parties. Then it finally explores the Islamic worldview which reconciles between the conflicting views that Allah is the ultimate being that controls both the biological and environmental factors on the child's intelligence.

This paper presents validation study to determine psychometric adequacy of a measure of WhatsApp use and students' perceived academic performance. A sample of 200 undergraduate students from Northwest University Kano was drawn through convenient sampling technique. The internal consistency of the measure was found to be adequate with .779. In addition to that, the instrument revealed acceptable psychometric properties and three divergent factors were identified that reflect the use of WhatsApp and students' perceive academic performance.

Due to flexibility and vitality nature of the field of educational technology, many attempts have being made by professionals of the field to define educational technology prior to 1960 to date for the purpose of providing a well comprehensive definition of the field which is suitable to the particular period of time. But, in recent years many literatures of the field (especially in Nigeria) outdated definitions are being used to define the filed which do not comprehensively cover the scope of the field nowadays. Thus, this paper elaborates the evolutionary nature of the definition of educational technology, and analyses the differences between each of the definitions. This might be helpful for the professionals of the field to be fully aware of the changing nature of the field, and be able to produce another definition by themselves in the future.

This paper gives an overview on the development of Islamic Education Curriculum in Nigeria. The paper examines the developmental structure of Islamic Education curriculum by taking cognizance in to three epochs; pre-colonial, during colonial and post-colonial. However, inhibitive factors affecting efficacious development of the curriculum are chronicled especially in this era which is full of reformation and dynamism. Finally, possible solutions are offered on best to move Islamic Education Curriculum forward in Nigeria.

Due to the rapid development of Information and Communication Technology ICT in education, many instructional videos are available in various internet sites like Youtube. This, urges the teachers of this century to integrate such videos in their teaching and share some with students. However, the varied nature and versatility of many of the available instructional videos necessitate the need of specialized knowledge, criteria and skills that could help the teachers for choosing the most suitable and effective instructional videos for their specific lesson. Therefore, this paper discusses on the criteria of evaluating the effectiveness and suitability of an instructional video to a particular lesson. Finally, the paper presents and explains a proposed model for selecting and evaluating instructional videos.

Few topics in the social sciences came up with more controversies than the influence of nature-nurture conflicts on child intelligence. There has been an old debate among Psychologists, is intelligence a product of nature (heredity) or nurture (environment). Psychologists stalemate, Scholars like Descartes are the proponents of nature, whereas people like Locke advocates nurture. Notwithstanding, Islam believes that, “the horns of a dilemma are usually on the same bull.” Therefore, this paper discusses the concept of intelligence is-a-is the nature-nurture conflict reflecting the evidences propose by each of the belligerent parties. Then it finally explores the Islamic worldview which reconciles between the conflicting views that Allah is the ultimate being that controls both the biological and environmental factors on the child’s intelligence. Keywords: Intelligence, nature-nurture, conflicts

This paper presents validation study to determine psychometric adequacy of a measure of WhatsApp use and students’ perceived academic performance. A sample of 200 undergraduate students from Northwest University Kano was drawn through convenient sampling technique. The internal consistency of the measure was found to be adequate with .779. In addition to that, the instrument revealed acceptable psychometric properties and three divergent factors were identified that reflect the use of WhatsApp and students’ perceive academic performance. The factors labeled as “academic communication”, “perceived academic performance” and “learning enhancement” explaining 33.75%, 15.31%, and 11.09% of the variances respectively. Moreover, the instrument demonstrates factorial validity, construct validity and structure of measures of constructs and the three factors solution explain 60.16% of total variance

Nowadays, teachers face a lot of challenges of their being held accountable for their students' academic achievement and the existing chances to teach beyond traditional methods through the use of innovative instructional technology and media. However, Instructional Design Models help teachers to provide systematic way or approach for effective utilization and implementation of educational media and technology in teaching. Therefore, this paper gives an overview of three Instructional Design Models (System Approach, Kemp, and ASSURE Instructional Design Models) followed by comparison and contrasting differences between the models. So, it might be helpful for teachers to select more appropriate model for integrating technological gadgets into their teaching.