CHALLENGES OF CHOOSING TFT

PARTICIPANTS FOR MTH 103-2012

BYDr. R.O. AkinolaM.G. Obiorah

TOPICS:

GOAL

METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION

‘THE SOLUTION’

GOALCHEMIST

RYCOMP. SCI.

MATHS PHYSICS STATISTICS

TOTAL

Gender M F M F M F M F M F M F

UME (FM)

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 10 10

UME (NFM)

4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 20 20

Remedials

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 10 10

Total 16 16 16 16 16 80

FM – Further Mathematics NFM – No Further Mathematics

METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION

Manual

Electronic

CHALLENGES OF THE MANUAL APPROACH

Inaccessible Level Co-ordinators Identify and contact each level

coordinators

It is a Laborious Job Access each file and retrieve required

data

Incomplete data: Students may not have submitted their

files. Omission as a result of human error

CHALLENGES OF THE ELECTRONIC METHOD

Power failure

Network failure

Over-worked ICT personnel

Time taken in debugging query

SAMPLE SPACE

CHEMISTRY

COMP. SCI.

MATHS PHYSICS STATISTICS

TOTAL

Gender M F M F M F M F M F M F

UME (FM)

2 0 3 0 5 1 1 0 1 0 12 1

UME (NFM)

14 8 23 3 22 5 16 0 7 1 82 17

Remedials

13 0 18 2 10 6 12 0 8 6 51 14

Total 37 48 49 29 23 187

CHALLENGES OF MEETING SELECTION REQUIREMENTS

Scarcity of female students:

Scarcity of students who passed Further Mathematics in their O’levels with UME Mode of Entry.

The 101 selection process

SOLUTION RECOMMENDED This table selects all females available The ratio of Calculus to No Calculus experience is 1:1 The ratio of Male to Female 3:2

CHEMISTRY

COMP. SCI.

MATHS PHYSICS STATISTICS

TOTAL

Gender M F M F M F M F M F M F

UME (FM)

2 0 2 0 4 1 1 0 1 0 10 1

UME (NFM)

2 8 5 3 0 5 10 0 6 1 23 17

Remedials

4 0 4 2 0 6 5 0 2 6 15 14

Total 16 16 16 16 16 80

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