Abstract
Despite the exception of Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church members from writing UTME on Sabbath days, there is still a great void in the educational disposition and privileges due to the Sabbath examination still being written in the country. Hence, this research focused on investigating the perceptions of SDA Church members (students, graduates and parents) on UTME being written on Sabbath day, with emphasis on IFL. Descriptive survey design and ex-post factor in design was adopted for this study. The population studied comprised all members of Ogun Conference, Seventh-day Adventist Church. Eight (8) districts with total membership of seven thousand, five hundred (7,500). Convenience sampling technique was used in the study to select 3 districts from the 8 districts, namely; Ilishan West, Ilishan North and Babcock University District that can be easily accessible. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 120 respondents from each district which comprises Parents, Students, and Graduates who have written UTME and might have been exposed to IFL programmes from each of the selected 3 districts, amounting to 360 respondents. A self- constructed questionnaire titled Seventh-day Adventist Church Perception on Sabbath UTME examinations and Awareness of IFL Questionnaire (SDAPSUTMEAIFL)” was the research instrument used for data collection based on the reliability testing result of 0.8 using Cronbach Alpha. The data was analyzed with the aid of SPSS 21.0 software using simple frequency counts and percentages for data presentation.
Conclusion and recommendations were made on the necessity for parents, schools and government to create faith based learning system in Nigeria.
Keywords: SDA Church, IFL, UTME, JAMB, Education, Nigeria, and Perceptions.
Despite the exception of Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church members from writing UTME on Sabbath days, there is still a great void in the educational disposition and privileges due to the Sabbath examination still being written in the country. Hence, this research focused on investigating the perceptions of SDA Church members (students, graduates and parents) on UTME being written on Sabbath day, with emphasis on IFL. Descriptive survey design and ex-post factor in design was adopted for this study. The population studied comprised all members of Ogun Conference, Seventh-day Adventist Church. Eight (8) districts with total membership of seven thousand, five hundred (7,500). Convenience sampling technique was used in the study to select 3 districts from the 8 districts, namely; Ilishan West, Ilishan North and Babcock University District that can be easily accessible. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 120 respondents from each district which comprises Parents, Students, and Graduates who have written UTME and might have been exposed to IFL programmes from each of the selected 3 districts, amounting to 360 respondents. A self- constructed questionnaire titled Seventh-day Adventist Church Perception on Sabbath UTME examinations and Awareness of IFL Questionnaire (SDAPSUTMEAIFL)” was the research instrument used for data collection based on the reliability testing result of 0.8 using Cronbach Alpha. The data was analyzed with the aid of SPSS 21.0 software using simple frequency counts and percentages for data presentation.
Conclusion and recommendations were made on the necessity for parents, schools and government to create faith based learning system in Nigeria.
