RESEARCH QUESTIONNAIRE

BABCOCK UNIVERSITY
ILISHAN-REMO, OGUN STATE.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

THE PERCEIVED INFLUENCE OF ADMINISTRATIVE CHALLENGES ON

ECONOMIC EDUCATION STUDENTS ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN BABCOCK
UNIVERSITY

Dear Respondent,
I am an undergraduate student in the department of Education, Babcock University,
currently conducting a research on THE PERCEIVED INFLUENCE OF
ADMINISTRATIVE CHALLENGES ON ECONOMICS EDUCATION STUDENTS IN
BABCOCK UNIVERSITY. I will appreciate your kind effort in giving sincere and honest
responses to the items on the questionnaire. All information provided by you will be treated with
strict confidentiality. Please respond to the following items by ticking the one you consider most
appropriate among the specified alternatives. Thank you for your sincere cooperation.

Abu Folakemi Roseline

Researcher

SECTION A: Demographic Information

Instruction: Please kindly fill in the gaps and tick the option most appropriate to you.

1. Name of Faculty: __________________________________________

2. Name of Department: ______________________________________
3. Age bracket: 16-20 ( ) 21-25 ( ) 26-29 ( ) 30 and above ( )
4. Level: 100 ( ) 200 ( ) 300 ( ) 400 ( )
5. Sex: Male ( ) Female ( )
 Administrative Challenges Scale
SECTION B: Lecturer’s competence items
Instructions: Please kindly tick the most appropriate answer to each of the following items,
noting that: SA= Strongly Agree, A= Agree, D= Disagree, SD= Strongly Disagree.
S/N ITEMS SA A D SD
1. Lecturers’ provides clear information about objective methods in the course outline
2. Students’ understand Mathematical Economics.
3. Lecturers’ allows and encourage students participation in class activities
4. Lecturers’ highlight the contents the study.
5. Students’ understand financial economics
6. Lecturers’ attends and responds clearly to questions asked in class
7. Lecturers’ teaches econometrics to student understanding.
8. lecturer’s simplify advance macro economics
9. Lecturer’s clarify operation research to students’ understanding.
10. Students’ understand Principle of Economics

SECTION C: Teaching method items

Instructions: Please kindly tick the most appropriate answer to each of the following items,
noting that: SA= Strongly Agree, A= Agree, D= Disagree, SD= Strongly Disagree.
S/N ITEMS SA A
1. Lecturers’ encourages team work
2. Lecturers’ stimulate my interest in the subject matter
3. Lecturers’ encouraged discussion and respond to questions
4. Directing strategies of teaching are adopted by lecturers’ in teaching learning process
5. Assignments and projects are given to students at the end of each lesson to ascertain their levels of
understanding before the next topic is introduced profession
6. Teacher-centered method are adopted by lecturers’ in teaching learning process
7. Lecturers’ improve teaching aid to make teaching of economics interesting and effective materials
8. Students’ tends to understand econometrics more when using graphs and charts
9. Students’ tends to understand mathematics economics more when group learning method are
adopted.
10. Students’ understand economics more when lecturers’ adopt technology-based learning method
the subject is taught sequentially.
 SECTION D: Items quality of learning materials.
Instructions: Please kindly tick the most appropriate answer to each of the following items,
noting that: SA= Strongly Agree, A= Agree, D= Disagree, SD= Strongly Disagree.
S/N ITEMS SA A D SD
1. Adequate instructional aids are available in econometrics laboratory
2. I am more conversant with econometrics laboratory
3. I am more familiar with econometrics laboratory equipments
4. I haven’t carry out econometrics experiments for once
5. I have not entered econometrics laboratory for once
6. I haven’t performed any econometrics experiments
7. I have accessibility to internet service in achieving my academic pursuits
8. All necessary textbook are available in the libraries
9.

Academic Achievement Scale

SECTION E: Economics education students’ attitudes towards economics courses
Instructions: Please kindly tick the most appropriate answer to each of the following items,
noting that: SA= Strongly Agree, A= Agree, D= Disagree, SD= Strongly Disagree.
S/N ITEMS SA A D SD
1. Economics course is difficult
2. Economics is frustrating to study
3. I am satisfy in getting any score as along as am able to move to next level.
4. I have a negative attitude towards Economics
5. I have no interest in studying Economics
6. Economics has no relevance
7. There’s no need of studying economics
8. Economics is for the genius
9. Economics deals mostly with mathematical aptitude