EWAY GLOBAL ACADEMY

presents
GNS 113: USE LIBRARY AND STUDY SKILLS
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. Evaluation of information is essential to conducting quality research means
a. Finding
b. Critical Thinking
c. Survey
d. Appraisal

2. Type of library is responsible for issuing ISBN.

a. Private Library
b. Special Library
C. National Library
d. State Library

3. Otunba Gbenga Daniel Library is a/an

a. Academic Library
b. Private Library
c. Public Library
d. School Library

4. Binding of final year project is to services

a. Technical
b. Serial
c. Reserve
d. Circulation

5. O.G.D Library uses _____ Catalog type.

a. Book
b. Card
c. Sheaf
d. Electronic
6. According to UNESCO, a is a publication consisting of 49 or more pages.
a. Project
b. Journal
c. Article
d. BOOK

7. AGORA means
a. Access To Global Online Research In Agriculture
b. Active Global Online Research of Articles
c. Acceptable Online Research Application
d. Application to Global Online Research Access

8. AJOL means
a. African Journalist of Language
b. African Journals Online
c. Access to Journal Online
d. Allow Journal Online

9. Directions includes all EXCEPT

a. www.yahoo.com
b. www.lycos.com
c. www.infoseek.com
d. www.Ask.Com

10. Borrowing a book from a cooperating library is _____.

a. Lending
b. Book loaning
c. Inter Library Loans
d. Interlibrary borrowing

11. _____ is a pointer of information.

a. Table Of Content
b. Index
c. appendices
d. biography

12. _____ is a brief summary of findings, of not more than 250 words.
a. Article
b. Short Message
c. Abstract
d. Thesis

13. Which is odd from the following.

a. Questionnaire
b. Surveys
c. Interview
d. Monologue

14. Copy of other people's work without their consent is _____.

a. Plagiarism
b. Copyright
c. Patent right
d. Trademark

15. The right to prevent people from copying their work which has been created
by intellectual effort is _____.
a. Plagiarism
b. Copyright
c. Patent right
d. Trademark

16. Copyright protects not _____.

a. Book
b. Articles
c. Photographs
d. Speech

17. _____ is the process of looking at visual representation to get meaning from a
written word.
a. Skimming
b. Glancing
c. Reading
d. Surfing

18. _____ number of copies is the legal deposit to be passed to the National
Library.
a. 5
b. 4
c. 2
d. 3

19. Lagos Book Club was established in what year?

a. 1920
b. 1950
c. 1953
d. 1940

20. _____ is a library formed owned and built by the taxpayers money.
a. Special Library
b. Private Library
c. National library
d. Public Library

21. Tai Solarin University Staff School Library is headed by the _____.
a. Academic Librarian
B. School Librarian
c. College Librarian
d. Principal

22. Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN) Library is an example of

a. Special Library
b. Private Library
c. National library
d. School Library

23. _____ type of library does not lend books and other materials to individuals.
a. Special Library
b. Private Library
c. National Library
d. Public Library

24. _____ is not among ways of acquiring library materials.

a. Gift
b. Purchase
c. Donation
d. Weeding

25. The standard card size should be _____.

a. 3" By 5"
b. 4" by 8"
c. 2" by 5"
d. 2" by 4"

26. Accession number is issued by _____.

a. Serial Unit
b. Technical Unit
c. Readers Unit
d. Circulation Unit

27. In the Library of Congress Classification K is _____.

a. Law
b. Science
c. History
d. Fine Arts

28. ____ among the following is not a user of the library.

a. Handicap
b. Artisan
c. Lecturers
d. Imbecile

29. The permanent storage of Information is the function of

a. High Aptitude
b. LTM
c. Stm
d. I.q

30. The memory that holds information at the current moment is _____.
a. Ltm
b. STM
c. Consolidation
d. Brain Capacitor

31. _____ is not among the factors that contribute to the nature of our
intelligence.
a. Hereditary Factor
b. Environmental factor
c. Dozing
d. Emotion

32. Loss of availability or accessibility causes _____.

a. Forgetting
b. remembering
c. recall
d. recognition

33. Materials borrowed in the Library lapse for _____ days before it is returned
or renewed.
a. 5
b. 7
c. 8
d.3

34. The ability to recall stored ideas or materials in the brain to the mind as
postulated by (Adesemowo et al 1998) is
a. Remembering
b. recency
c. recall
d. associations

35. ISBN and ISSN is issued by _____ library

a. Special Library
b. Private Library
c. National Library
d. Public Library

36. Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal are examples of _____.

a. Approaches to Library Material
b. Library Material Dimension
c. Classification Of Scheme
d. Classification of Library

37. Otunba Gbenga Daniel Library uses _____ Classification Scheme.

a. Dewey Decimal Classification
b. Universal Dewey Classification
c. Colon Classification
d. Library Of Congress

38. SQ3R is a _____ technique.

a. Study
b. Writing
c. Reading
d. Memorising
39. The 3R in SQ3R are
a. Recall, Read and Recite
b. Read, Recite And Review
c. Read, Review and Recall
d. Repeat, Read and Review

40. Learning again or going through information of what has been previously
learnt is known as _____.
a. Recognition
b. recall
c. Re Learning
d. learning

41. The ability to bring back old experiences (original) could be referred to as
_____.
a. Recall
b. review
c. re-learning
d. repeat

42. Discrimination between seen and unseen, known and unknown is called
_____.
a. recall
b. Recognition
c. recites
d. research

43. OPAC means

a. Only Public Access Connection
b. Online Public Access Connection
c. Online Public Access Catalogs
d. Online Private Access Code

44. _____ uses digital information technology to collect, store, search for and
disseminate information to an unlimited number of people irrespective of time
and place.
a. Internet
b. Email Networking
c. Electronic Library
d. Electronic Services

45. A newly acquired book is given a _____.

a. Registered Number
b. Purchase Number
c. Receiving Number
d. Accession Number

46. Ability to search many search engines is

a. Tabing
b. Meta Engines
c. Booting
d. Quo engines

47. The use of the sign * or + when searching means

a. Algorithms
b. Quick searching
c. Quick surfing
d. Truncation

48. AND, OR and NOT are _____.

a. Boolean Operators
b. Search Kits
c. Search Keywords
d. Word Engines

49. A physical part of a book is

a. 2
b. 4
c. 3
d. I don’t know

50. The last page of the body of a book is _____.

a. Bibliography
b. Reference
c. Index
d. Appendix

INFORMATION RESOURCES PRINT AND ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

1. _____ can be described as the totality of acquired materials gathered together
by a library for its users.
Ans: PRINT RESOURCES

2. Library resources can be broadly categorized into _____

Ans: TWO
Books or print resources and
Electronic or audio – visual resources

3. _____ are any information sources in the library in printed texts and they
include books references, resources, serial resources, textbooks, light reading
material, theses/projects etc.
Ans: BOOKS OR PRINT RESOURCES

4. A _____ is defined as written or printed sheets of papers bound together

between covers
Ans: BOOK (WORLD BOOK DICTIONARY 2001)

5. A _____ is described as a collection of leaves of papers, parchment or cloth or

other materials (written, printed or blank) fastened together along one edge with
or without a protection cover.
Ans: BOOK
6. _____ defines a book as a non – periodical literacy publication of at least forty
– nine pages or more, pages exclusive of cover pages.
Ans: UNESCO

7. There are ____ main kinds of book

Ans: FOUR (4)

8. Kinds of book are _____, _____, _____ and _____.

Ans: BOOKS TRADE, REPRINTS, TEXTBOOKS AND REFERENCE BOOKS

9. The books displayed or arranged in bookstores for purchase is called _____

Ans: TRADE BOOKS
Examples: novels, story books, travel books, religious books etc.

10. The regular books for studying in schools and higher institutions are ____
Ans: TEXTBOOKS

11. The written books on different subjects by specialists with different

disciplines are called _____.
Ans: TEXTBOOKS

12. _____ are copies of an earlier edition reproduced at intervals after maiden
copies produced have been exhausted
Ans: REPRINTS
NOTE: reprinted versions of books are editions of previous publications which
allow little modification on the title page and correction errors, if there is any. If
you observe, there are some textbooks you will see reedited 2002, 2005, 2007 etc.
That's exactly what reprint entails in a nutshell.

13. A book is made up of three sections, which are _____, _____ and _____.
Ans: THE PRELIMINARY SECTION, THE TEXT SECTION AND THE
AUXILIARY SECTION

14. The _____ section of a book is numbered in roman figures.

Ans: PRELIMINARY
NOTE: if you check any textbook, check the title page, contents page, preface or
introduction, copyrights page (it displays the ISBN, CIP, etc.) acknowledgment
page, dedication page and list of illustrative materials, they are all written in
roman figures. The section in any book is called the PRELIMINARY SECTION.

15. The main content of the book is called the ____ section.
Ans: TEXT

16. The _____ section consists of the appendix, glossary, index, notes,
bibliography or references, list of contributions etc.
Ans: AUXILIARY

The Preliminary Section

17. _____ are blank pages next to the end papers, the first and last leaves in the
book which are pasted separately after the original cover of the book.
Ans: FLY LEAVES PAGE

18. An indication of the title of the book is _____ which only provides the
complete or an abbreviated form of the title.
Ans: HALF TITLE PAGE

19. _____ gives the full title of the book without abbreviation which provides the
author of the book, publisher’s name and address, edition number etc.
Ans: TITLE PAGE

20. The legal right given by the government to the author/publisher of a book is
_____.
Ans: COPYRIGHT PAGE
NOTE: The page is detailed with the name of the author, publisher’s name and
address, copyright’s owners and date.

21. ISBN means _____

Ans: INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
22. CIP means _____
Ans: CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION

23. _____ bears the name(s) of person(s), group(s), organization(s) to

whom/which the author has dedicated the book.
Ans: THE DEDICATION PAGE

24. Introducing comments on a book, usually written by someone other than the
author is _____.
Ans: FOREWORD

25. _____ contains the author’s reason for writing the book.
Ans: THE PREFACE

26. The page giving recognition to those who have contributed to the success of
the book one way or the other is _____.
Ans: ACKNOWLEDGMENT PAGE

27. The page that serves as an outline of a book or shows the preliminaries and
chapters headings that have appeared in the book in correct order with page
numbers appropriately indicated is _____.
Ans: TABLE OF CONTENTS

28. Paper used to wrap a covering of a book which the jacket protects the book
and usually attracts attention to the book is _____.
Ans: DUST JACKET/BOOK JACKET

The Auxiliary Section

29. An _____ include any data that may help clarify the text for the reader.
Ans: APPENDIX

30. _____ contains an alphabetical list of technical, obsolete, unusual, foreign or

other terms used but not explained in the book, with their definition.
Ans: GLOSSARY

31. An _____ is an alphabetical listing that gives enough information for each
item to be traced in the exact positions in the book.
Ans: INDEX

32. Statement explaining a point in the text of a work or giving the source of a
quotation is _____.
Ans: NOTE

33. The systematic listing of the sources of books and other documents which
the author used in writing his book or recommends for further reading or
acknowledgment is _____.
Ans: BIBLIOGRAPHY OR REFERENCES

34. The people useful for the success of the book are called _____.
Ans: LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Reference Book Resources

These are books that contain definite pieces of information of varying extents.
They are kept at a section in the library and can only be consulted within that
section called “reference section” of any library.
Examples are: biographies, research reports, almanacs, dissertations and theses,
encyclopedias, dictionaries, monographs, year books, handbooks, gazettes,
atlases, directories, bibliography of bibliographies, maps, government
publications. Serial Resources
35. _____ are publications in print or non – print form issued in successive parts
and published independently either numerically or chronologically.
Ans: SERIAL RESOURCES

36. ISSN means _____.

Ans: INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER

37. _____ are materials in digital format accessible electronically.

Ans: ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Examples: electronic journals (e - journal), electronic books (e - book) and online
databases in various digital formats such as Adobe Acrobat documents, (pdf),
and WebPages, (html).

38. AJOL means _____

Ans: AFRICAN JOURNAL ONLINE

39. OARE is _____

Ans: ONLINE ACCESS TO RESEARCH IN THE ENVIRONMENT
40. DOAJ is _____
Ans: THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

41. TEEAL means _____

Ans: THE ESSENTIAL ELECTRONIC AGRICULTURE LIBRARY

42. CD-ROM is _____

Ans: COMPACT DISK READ ONLY MEMORY

The Internet
43. The _____ is a collection of vast information sources of interlinked computer
networks.
Ans: INTERNET

44. _____ is referred to as the network of networks

Ans: THE INTERNET

45. URL means _____

Ans: UNIVERSAL RESOURCES LOCATOR
NOTE: Each website has its URL address, searching skills for Information on the
Internet. There are three (3) main searching skills on the internet which includes
search engines, meta engines and directories.
CHAPTER TWO
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES
1. The _____ is a collection of information resources which comprises print, non
– print and electronic resources selected, acquired, organized, preserved and
made accessible to meet the users’ information needs.
Ans: LIBRARY
NOTE: Non – print resources are globes, bulletin boards, video recordings, audio
recordings, filmstrips, microforms, slides, transparencies, motion pictures, films
and their related projectors.
Print resources are, but not limited to, textbooks, magazines, year books,
projects, theses and dissertations, encyclopedias, journals, newsletters,
newspapers, bulletins and reference materials
Electronic resources are electronic books (e - book) , electronic bibliographic
database/online database in various disciplines, electronic journals (e - journals)
etc.

2. Library services can be broadly categorized into _____ and _____

Ans: TECHNICAL AND READER’S
NOTE: The technical services comprise the collection development, cataloging
and classification. The reader’s services are concerned with services that have
direct impact on user’s information needs satisfaction.

3. CAS is ____
Ans: CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICE

4. SDI is _____
Ans: SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION

5. _____ can be regarded as a formal summary that an author prepares for a

completed work.
Ans: ABSTRACT

6. ILL is _____
Ans: INTERLIBRARY LOAN SERVICES
7. _____ is a technique adopted by a library to lend its information resources to
an individual through another library in the most cost effective manner.
Ans: INTERLIBRARY LOAN
NOTE: Interlibrary loan service encourages the sharing of information materials
between partner – libraries because no library can meet all the information needs
of its users.

8. ED means _____.
Ans: EXHIBITIONS AND DISPLAYS

9. Supply of documents, journals articles owned by a library to a requesting user

or institution is _____.
Ans: DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICE

10. _____ service allows users to duplicate a concise number of pages of an

original work according to copyright law for the purpose of teaching, research
and personal use.
Ans: REPROGRAPHIC

11. _____ service is provided for in the library to allow registered library users to
borrow books for a specific number of days.
Ans: LENDING
NOTE: Gbenga Daniel Library in Tai Solarin University of Education, users are
allowed to borrow books maximally for 7 days (one week).

12. _____ library services emphasize the provision of books to be borrowed for
home use.
Ans: MOBILE

13. _____ display is the physical or online (or both) public displays of books,
artifacts and other informative materials in the library.
Ans: EXHIBITIONS

14. RS means _____.

Ans: REPROGRAPHIC SERVICE

15. LS means _____.

Ans: LENDING SERVICE

CHAPTER THREE
DEVELOPING RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARDS ASSIGNMENTS
1. _____ is the process of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge,
skills and value.
Ans: EDUCATION

2. An _____ is a task or piece of work allocated to someone (a student/students’)

as part of a job or course of study.
Ans: ASSIGNMENT
Benefits of Assignment
-Improves knowledge of the subject
-Helps to develop an analytical and articulate mind
-Enhances creativity, vocabulary and writing skills
-Helps to develop presentation skills and academic knowledge
-Improve time management skills

3. CGPA means _____

Ans: CUMULATIVE GRADE POINT AVERAGE
4. _____ is a well – defined plan aimed at achieving a specific result.
Ans: GOAL

5. There are _____ types of goals.

Ans: FOUR (4)
Immediate goal, Short term goal, intermediary goal and long term goal.
Benefits of Goal Setting
-Active involvement
-Decision making and problem solving
-Accomplishment
-Self esteem
6. There are two classification schemes that are widely used in the globe which
are _____ and _____.
Ans: DEWEY DECIMAL SCHEME AND LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
CLASSIFICATION SCHEME
NOTE: Most university libraries in Nigeria make use of the Library of Congress.
Classification Scheme: The system uses letters and numbers.

7. Easier location of materials in the library is _____.

Ans: LIBRARY CATALOGS

8. _____ catalog is a list of all the books held in a library in alphabetical order.
Ans: TITLE

9. The _____ catalog is a list of all the books held in a library arranged
alphabetically by author’s names.
Ans: AUTHOR

10. The _____ catalog provides a list of all the resources that are held under a
particular classification in a library.
Ans: CLASSIFIED

CHAPTER FOUR
THE NATURE OF STUDY AND EFFECTIVE LEARNING
1. _____ is defined as the application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge
by reading, investigation or reflection.
Ans: STUDY

2. _____ is a process of enjoying and manipulating objects, experiences and

conversations in order to build mental models of the world.
Ans: LEARNING

3. _____ is a process that provides the learners with the opportunity to engage
with specific ideas and concepts on the need – to – know or want – to –know
basis.
Ans: LEARNING

4. _____ is a continuous process that starts from what one knows and graduates
towards what one wants to know.
Ans: LEARNING

5. Learning depends on the learner’s preferences, information processing

capability, personality, social interaction tendencies, cultural diversity in the
learning place and _____ method exposed to
Ans: INSTRUCTIONAL

6. _____ is defined as any relatively permanent behavior that occurs as a result of

practice and experience.
Ans: LEARNING

7. Learning is the _____ of habits, knowledge and attitudes.

Ans: ACQUISITION
Some of the Problems that Affect Learning
-Readiness
-Exercise
-Effect
-Primary
-Intensity
-Recency
-Perception
Methods of Retention of what is Learnt
-Recall by association
-Favorable attitude
-Meaningful repetitions
-Learning with all senses
LEVELS OF LEARNING
There are four levels of learning which are:
-Rotational learning
-Understanding
-Application
-Correlation

8. Higher levels of learning take place in _____, _____ and _____ domains.
Ans: COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE AND PSYCHOMOTOR

9. _____ involves reading, listening, speaking and writing.

Ans: LEARNING

10. _____ libraries are funded by the local, state or federal authorities.
Ans: PUBLIC

11. _____ libraries are funded and maintained by different organizations.

Ans: SPECIAL
Examples are UNESCO, Research institutions etc.

12. _____ is found in colleges and universities which serve students and faculty
members in supporting smooth teaching and learning.
Ans: ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

13. Library _____ is a database of all the information sources in a library.

Ans: CATALOG
NOTE: Catalog helps library users to search for any document such as books,
journals, maps and electronic collections of sources.

14. _____ shows the location of such a collection on the shelf for easy access.
Ans: CATALOG
NOTE: Modern libraries now combine both physical and electronic catalogs for
easy search and location of library resources.

15. _____ resources are all forms of information carriers that can be used to
record, store, preserve, transmit and retrieve information for learning and
teaching activities.
Ans: LEARNING
16. Learning resources can be classified into _____ and _____.
Ans: PRINT AND NON – PRINT MATERIALS

CHAPTER FIVE
INFORMATION LITERACY (IL) AND RETRIEVAL SKILLS FOR
NIGERIAN UNDERGRADUATES
1. _____ literacy implies the intellectual capabilities involved in using information,
as distinct from the technical know-how required for using information
technologies that hold or deliver data.
Ans: INFORMATION

2. _____ literacy skills encompass knowledge of one’s information concerns and

needs, and the ability to identify, locate, evaluate, organize and effectively create,
use and communicate information to address issues or problems at hand.
Ans: INFORMATION

3. _____ literacy is the ability to access, evaluate, organize and use information in
order to learn, solve problems, make decisions – informal and informal learning
contexts.
Ans: INFORMATION

4. CILIP is _____
Ans: CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
PROFESSIONALS

5. IL is _____
Ans: INFORMATION LITERACY

6. _____ retrieval is finding materials of unstructured nature from large

collections, usually stored on computers or information systems.
Ans: INFORMATION
Information Retrieval Process
-Information Gap Stage
-Selecting Information Retrieval System to Use
-Understanding Information Problem
-Queries Formulation Stage
-Retrieval of Results
-Evaluation of results
-Utilization of the results of the search

CHAPTER SIX
ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE LIBRARY
1. To make information resources easily accessible and retrievable by the library
users, the information resources must be organized and arranged in a _____ way.
Ans: SYSTEMATIC

2. Libraries organize their collections through the use of _____ and _____
systems.
Ans: CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION

3. _____ is a bibliographic description of library collections/holdings, showing

features such as author, editor, title, subject, publisher, place of publication, date
of publication, number of pages or volumes, ISBN, accession numbers and
copies of the materials in the library holdings.
Ans: CATALOG

4. There are three major types of catalog, which are _____, _____ and _____.
Ans: BOOK CATALOG, CARD CATALOG AND AUTOMATED / ONLINE
CATALOG

5. OPAC means _____.

Ans: ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOG

6. A library _____ is a system of organization of knowledge by which library

resources are arranged and ordered systematically.
Ans: CLASSIFICATION
There are different types of classification schemes used by different libraries.
Some of the widely used are as follows:
-Library of Congress Classification Scheme (LC)
-Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme (DDC)
-Universal Decimal Classification Scheme (UDC)
-Bliss Classification Scheme (BCS)
-Moys Classification Scheme (MCS)
-Bernard Classification Scheme (BCS

7. The Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme was developed in 1876 by _____.

Ans: DR. MELVIN DEWEY

CHAPTER SEVEN
ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
1. _____ structure is a system used to identify hierarchy within an organization.
Ans: ORGANIZATION

2. Organization structure is the arrangement of people and tasks to accomplish

organization _____.
Ans: GOALS
NOTE: Organization structure shows different departments and units in an
organization.

3. _____ is a framework on which an organization is patterned for coordinating

and carving out organizational tasks.
Ans: ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE

4. ____ are libraries of tertiary institutions i.e universities, polytechnics and

colleges.
Ans: ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

5. Organization structure of academic libraries can be referred to as the _____

system of operation.
Ans: HIERARCHICAL
Creating Productive Study Environment
-Eliminate distractions
-Clean up and organize study space
-Working out when you wake up
-Listen to soft-tune music
-Consistency
-Develop good attitude

CHAPTER EIGHT
ENGENDERING GOOD STUDY HABITS AND PRODUCTIVE LEARNING
1. _____ has to do with the regular tendencies and practices that an individual
depicts during the process of gaining knowledge.
Ans: STUDY HABIT
ENGENDERING/DEVELOPING GOOD STUDY HABIT FOR STUDENTS
-Reading/learning in a conducive environment
-Read more till you understand till the time you can explain better independently
-Create time to study
-Avoid learning/reading in noisy environment i.e avoid distractions
-Don’t learn/read with empty stomach
-Full concentration
-Identify your limitations to read
ENGENDERING GOOD STUDY HABIT FROM TEACHERS
-Give clear objectives
-Regular assignments
-Administering regular tests
-Feedback from students to teachers should be considered
-Guidance and counseling
-Motivating students
-Encouraging and creating group tasks
-Conducive environment
-SQ3R and Good Study Habits

2. SQ3R means _____

Ans:
S means Survey
Q – Question
R means Read
R means Recite
R means Review

3. The road map to learn is _____.

Ans: SURVEY
NOTE: Learners are expected to go through the study materials in order to have
an overall picture of the materials to be studied.

4. After the learner has read the materials given, trying to know the unknown
through what, why, where, when and who is _____.
Ans: QUESTION

CHAPTER NINE
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS AND IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES
1. _____ is the pivot of development of any nation.
Ans: EDUCATION
NOTE: Educational problems are multi – dimensional in nature. Some of these
problems reside in the school, the society, the home and the learners themselves.
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS FACED BY STUDENTS AND THEIR
REMEDIATION STRATEGIES
-Poor socialization
-Relationship problems
-Psychological problems
-Poor communication
-Emotional problems
-Time mismanagement
-Indiscipline
-Poor classroom adjustment
-Poor health conditions
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS AND REMEDIATION STRATEGIES
-Infrastructure
-Teacher’s insecurity
-Paucity of trained teachers
-Corruption
-Poverty
-Lack of fund
-Communication gap
-Unhealthy environment

CHAPTER TEN
EMPOWERING STUDENTS THROUGH ASSIGNMENTS, HOME WORK
AND NOTE TAKING
1. _____ is the development of knowledge, skills and abilities in the learners to
enable them to control and develop their own learning.
Ans: EMPOWERMENT

2. _____ is the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or groups to

make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes.
Ans: EMPOWERMENT
Forms of Empowerment
-Evaluation
-Self-control
-Critical thinking or metacognition
-Emotional intelligence

3. _____ is about encouraging students to challenge preconceptions – their own,

their peers’ and their teachers’
Ans: METACOGNITION
NOTE: They are expected to develop their own opinions and justify them.
Tools for Empowering Students
-Assignments
-Homework
-Note taking

4. _____ is a school task performed by a student to satisfy the teacher.

Ans: ASSIGNMENT
5. An undertaking that has been assigned to a student or a group of students by
an instructor is _____.
Ans: ASSIGNMENT

6. _____ is a reflection of how the students learn in the classroom

Ans: HOMEWORK

7. _____ is a school work done outside the school especially at home

Ans: HOMEWORK

8. _____ is an acquired skill that improves students learning and retention of

information in a variety of domains and subjects
Ans: NOTE TAKING
NOTE: A good lecture note is one of the important skills that a student needs in
preparing for an examination. Many students take notes in a haphazard style claiming
that they will copy them later.
CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD LECTURE NOTE
-Instruction on taking notes
-Essentials of note – taking
-Problems and solutions in note taking

CHAPTER ELEVEN
ENSURING ADEQUATE PREPARATION FOR EXAMINATION
1. _____ is a spoken or written test of knowledge.
Ans: EXAMINATION
2. Successful _____ preparation is all about being organized, recognizing
individual’s strengths and weaknesses and setting mechanisms to compensate
for them.
Ans: EXAMINATION
Why Examinations?
-Examination enables teachers to measure the level of understanding and
achievement of the learners.
-Examination allows organization of skills and also strengthens study skills.
-Examination induce intense and deep learning
TIPS FOR EXAMINATION PREPARATION AND SUCCESS
-Plan to succeed
-Make revision time count
-Be realistic
-Do not panic
-Building review time on a daily/weekly/end of topics basis
-Use variety of revision, not passive
-Practice active revision, not passive
CAUSES OF FAILURE IN EXAMINATION
-Poor study
-Laziness and procrastination
-Peer pressure
-Social distraction
-Ignorance of the principle of success (time management, principle of diligence
and delayed gratification)
NOTE: Avoid examination malpractices before, during and after examination.
AFTER WRITING THE EXAMINATION
1. Avoid discussing with other people, especially if there is another examination
later that day or the following day.
2. Comparing answers with others can lead to panic and that is not needed,
especially if there are other examinations to prepare for. If another examination is
coming up the following day, treat yourself to another relaxed evening and night.

CHAPTER TWELVE
EFFECTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
1. _____ is a relatively permanent change in behavior as a result of experience or
practice
Ans: LEARNING
2. For effective learning to take place, the learning environment must be _____ for
learning and the entire teaching – learning atmosphere must be stimulating and
facilitating to the teacher and learners.
Ans: CONDUCIVE