Title: Use of Occasional Smiles in Delivery of Instructional Contents: Strategies for Creating Students Invitation to learn in Higher Education Institution in Nigeria
Authors: Christian Nwakanma PhD, Egbebu Francis Ugochukwu PhD, Eke Camilus Ugochukwu PhD, Eke Camillius Ugochukwu PhD
Volume: 9
Issue: 6
Pages: 371-376
Publication Date: 2025/06/28
Abstract:
This paper is on use of occasional smiles in delivery of instructional contents: Strategies for Creating Students invitation to learn in higher education institutions in Nigeria. 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 40 male students in social science education and life science education department departments. On the other hand, 45 female students were selected from political science and economics departments, which gave sample size of 170 as sample size. Researcher developed questionnaire titled "use of occasional smiles in delivery of instructional contents: Strategies for Creating Students invitation to learn in higher education 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. 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 lecturers occasional smiles creates students engagement to learn. It was recommended from this study that lecturer's should be open minded to students. This would enable students explain their learning difficulties to lecturers.