The fourth section of the paper presents the findings of the study, while the fifth section discusses the results and offers a conclusion. [...] Oyo and Jigawa were intentionally chosen to represent two geo-political zones in Nigeria, with Oyo State in the southern part of the country (the region with the best performance in terms of quality of basic education) and Jigawa State in the northern part of the country (the region with the worst performance in the country) (Dataphyte, 2020). [...] Teacher survey fieldwork was conducted with the support of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and the Ministry of Education, where SUBEB and the Ministry supported the participation of teachers in the survey. [...] Figure 7 provides a birds-eye view of student performance and reveals that the average score obtained on the NCEE examinations differ greatly across Oyo and Jigawa, with the higher-performing state of Oyo having grade averages of 46 percent and 49 percent in 2017 and 2019 respectively, and the lower-performing state of Jigawa having grade averages of 20 percent and 27 percent in 2017 and 2019 resp. [...] The topic ‘vocabulary’ attracts significantly more emphasis in the exams than in the standards: 6 percent in the standards and 29 percent in the exams.
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