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Staff Opinion On The Utilization Of University Students Research Findings By The Public And Private Schools In Nigeria

 Ekereke Aniefiok  Silas

Educational Administration and Planning Department

                                                         University of Calabar, Nigeria

Email: silasekereke@yahoo.com

Accepted 18 July 2014

This study investigated the opinion of Academic Staff regarding the utilization of university education students’ research findings in solving educational problems. The population for the study consisted of 200 from two universities. The study adopted the purposive sampling technique, to draw a sample of 100 academic staff (50 each) from the faculty of education, university of Calabar and Cross River State University of technology used for the study, Academic Staff Opinion on the Utilization of Students Research Findings Questionnaire (ASOUSRFQ). A 15 questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection. Two research hypotheses were formulated and tested at .05 level of probability, using the t –test statistics. The findings indicated that the level of utilization of students’ educational research findings is not significantly high. The study also discovered that the level of utilization of students’ research finding by government was not significantly different from that of the private sectors. Based on the findings, the researchers recommended that the Federal Government should establish a Ministry of Higher Education to collaborate with the National University commission to draw government full attention on how to utilize students’ research findings.

 Keywords: Public, private, research, sectors, students, university.

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