OFFICIAL JOURNAL/RESEARCH

  • One of the main achievements of the Institute is the continuous publication of its official Journal- Benin Journal of Educational Studies (BJES). It accepts articles of theoretical and empirical nature from the entire spectrum of academic community within and outside Nigeria all through the year.
  • OTHER  PUBLICATIONS :

Some of the Institute Publication include :

  • Advances in the field of Education: The Nigerian Experience.
  • Population Education in Nigeria: Themes and Perspectives.
  • Pre-primary Education in Nigeria
  • Fundamentals of Teaching practice
  • Universal Basic Education: Focus on Primary Education.
  • Issues in Education, Government and Development
  • Standard on Education in the 21stCentury
  • A Hand book of Institute seminars and workshop.
  • Resource Management in Education and National Development.
  • Teaching practice Log and Handbook

Individual and group publications of books are also available. They include:

  • The teaching profession: Issues, problems and prospects.

(ii)       Home – school partnership for school Effectiveness.

            Individual and group researches are on going

(iii)     Managing Learners’ Time, Health and study habit

(iv)      Introduction to educational measurement and evaluation.

(v)       An Introduction to statistics.

(vi)      Educational Management: New Perspectives.

(vii)     Teaching and learning English as a second Language.

(viii)    Understanding and Using English.

(xi)      Learner responsibilities towards managing their time, health and study habits.

(x)       Going to school in Sub-saharan Africa

RESEARCHES

Group and individual researchers are ongoing. They include:

  1. Correlates of academic goals achievements of the Universal Basic Education in Edo
  2. State Innovation in Higher Education: Contending Methodological practices for the New Times and the changing Workplace,
  3. The effect of Two Reading Instructional Strategies on Achievement in Reading. Nigerian Research in Education, Vol. 1 (1) 1982. P 91-105.
  4. The Readability of English Language Supplementary Readers used in Nigerian Secondary Schools. Journal of Nigerian Educational Research Association. Vol. 5(2). 1986. P. 18-29.
  5. The Effect of Selected Grammatical Drills on the Writing of Lower Secondary School Students. Journal of Research in Curriculum (JORIC). Vol. 4(1). 1986. P. 42-48.
  6. The Relative Effects of Two Methods of Teaching Reading in Nigerian Primary Schools. English Language Teaching Journal. Oxford University, London. Vol. 40 (1) 1986. P. 46-51.
  7. Reading For Spelling: A Study in Concomitant and Incidental Learning. Journal of College Reading and Learning. University of Northern Colorado, pp 23-28.
  8. The Relationship between the Use of English Language Conjunctions and Reading Ability in Nigerian Secondary Schools. Journal of Education in Developing Areas. University of Port Harcourt, Vol. 8 (1). 1990. P. 130-139.
  9. Individualized, Conventional Reading Instructional Strategies and the Development of Positive Attitude to Reading. Nigerian Journal of Education Research Vol. 1(1). 1994 P. 93-109.
  10. Effects of Methods of Instruction and Gender on Achievement in English Grammar. African Journal of Studies in Education. Vol. 6&7 (1&2). P. 245-25
  11. Effects of Methods with Linguistic Packages and Socio-Economic Background on the Overall Achievements of Senior Secondary School Students in Essay Writing. Journal of Home and Community Science. Vol. 4 (3). P.165-175.
  12. Ofuani & Gbenedio (2016). The Effectiveness of Three Methods of Teaching Reading on Students’ Achievement in Comprehension. Journal of Education and Social Research,  Center of Education and Social Research, Rome, Italy. 6(1). 494-501.
  13. Afemikhe, O. A. (2015) An Exploration of University Learning Environments in Southern Nigeria. A University of Benin URCP Funded Research. Completed.
  14. Afemikhe, O. A., Imasuen, K. and Idusogie, V.O. Quality education as a function of
  15. school culture, structure and practices in Edo State. TEFUND funded research. Ongoing.