I (Sunday Ibrahim), a Lecturer in Chemistry Department and Science Education Unit of Federal College of Education Kano State,Nigeria.I am the current assistant secretary of Science Teachers Association of Nigeria(STAN),Kano state branch as well as the national secretary of Environmental Education subject panel of STAN.
I specialized in chemistry and science education with majors interest in Research and Data Analysis with Excel and SPSS.I have been actively involved in research and data analysis – as a student of research, a lecturer and as research coach and trainer.
I have been supporting individuals and organizations through various stages of research: identification of research problem, literature resource retrieval, designing and validation of data collection instruments
& data collection facilitation, data coding, entry and analysis, report review and compilation and publishing guidelines. I supported, mentored and coached
several Masters & PhD. research scholars with various aspect of their research work
especially in the areas of research methodology, instruments design and data Analysis task. I have a strong bias towards educational research. For more information. I have also written a number of books: Foundation
Concepts in Organic Chemistry, Pre-NCE Practical Chemistry, and Comprehensive Organic
Chemistry for NCE Students, among others. I have attended & participated
in many professional local and international conferences and written research
articles in reputable journals.
I hold a postgraduate
diploma in Information technology from ISP
computer institute, Kano. I equally hold a diploma in web development &
certificate in graphics design from HiiT Training Institute, Kano.This equipped me with web & graphic designing skills that I have continued to apply in my business and work place.I have also been involved in writing Science Education books for Colleges of Education.I am very versed in word processing applications like Ms. Word and Ms. Excel, Power Point and graphical packages
such as CorelDraw, Photoshop, ChemSketch, ChemDraw, statistical packages like SPSS among others. I have taught computer packages to various groups of people
i.e. among secondary, college and university level students.
I have been able to employ my ICT skills in processing data (using word processors and statistical packages), building a website for my courses,
setting up computer based testing & grading with immediate feedback for my
students and storing their
information in an online database.
I have trained and supported many post graduate/research scholars in their post
graduate research and data analysis with SPSS. My teaching and
training skills span over a decade. I have been involved in teaching since 2003
as trained teacher with NCE. In 2007 and 2017, I undertook Bachelor of Science
education (B.Sc. Ed.),Masters of Science Education (M. Ed) and PhD in Chemistry
Education respectively, which gave me more exposure in teaching and
training.
I
have taught all levels of education, from nursery, primary, secondary schools,
college to university levels, covering a wide range of areas including,
Biology, Chemistry, Research techniques, Statistics, and Data Coding, Entry
& Analysis and use of various computer applications