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The journal publishes <strong>original research</strong>, <strong>theoretical analyses</strong>, and <strong>critical reviews</strong>, welcoming contributions from academics, researchers, graduate students, and policymakers in international contexts.</div> </div> </div> <!-- AIMS + SCOPE --> <div style="margin-top: 12px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px; align-items: stretch;"><!-- Aims --> <div style="flex: 1 1 320px; min-width: 0; padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #FFFDF7; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 800; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Aims</div> <div style="color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.9px; line-height: 1.84; text-align: justify;"><em>International Journal of Education, Culture, and Society (IJECS)</em> aims to publish rigorous, peer-reviewed scholarship that advances theory, empirical evidence, and critical understanding of the relationships among <strong>education</strong>, <strong>culture</strong>, and <strong>society</strong>. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary work that is methodologically transparent, analytically defensible, and socially relevant across diverse international contexts.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.9px; line-height: 1.84;"> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Education Research:</strong> advance teaching, learning, curriculum, assessment, and educational policy with clear implications for practice.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Cultural Analysis:</strong> strengthen analysis of identity, values, language, heritage, arts, and meaning-making in education and social life.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Social Inquiry:</strong> promote research on institutions, communities, inequality, governance, and social change shaping educational experiences.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Interdisciplinary Integration:</strong> encourage coherent links among educational phenomena, cultural practices, and societal structures through theory and method.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Ethical and Transparent Scholarship:</strong> support clear sourcing, responsible fieldwork, and appropriately bounded conclusions.</div> </div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; padding: 10px 12px; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; border-radius: 12px; background: #EEF0DA; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.8; text-align: justify;">Manuscripts should state the cultural and societal context, specify the education-related focus, justify the analytic framework, and explain how the findings inform educational practice, cultural understanding, and/or social policy.</div> </div> <!-- Scope --> <div style="flex: 1 1 320px; min-width: 0; padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #FFFDF7; box-sizing: border-box;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 800; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Scope</div> <div style="color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.9px; line-height: 1.84; text-align: justify;">IJECS considers manuscripts spanning <strong>education</strong>, <strong>culture</strong>, and <strong>society</strong>, including interdisciplinary work examining how cultural practices, institutions, and social structures shape educational experiences and outcomes. Submissions may be empirical, conceptual, interpretive, historical, or review-based, provided they offer clear contribution and rigorous evidence or reasoning.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.9px; line-height: 1.84;"> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Education Studies:</strong> pedagogy, curriculum and instruction, assessment, teacher education, educational leadership, and policy implementation.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Cultural Studies:</strong> identity, language, religion, values, arts and heritage, cultural transmission, and meaning-making in educational and social contexts.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Sociology and Community:</strong> social stratification, inequality, family and youth, community development, migration, and social cohesion affecting schooling and learning.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Governance, Policy, and Change:</strong> public policy, governance, citizenship, media and digital society, and social change with implications for education and culture.</div> <div style="margin: 8px 0; text-align: justify;"><strong>• Interdisciplinary Reviews and Theoretical Work:</strong> systematic or scoping reviews, critical syntheses, and theory-building that clarify concepts and advance research agendas.</div> </div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; padding: 10px 12px; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; border-radius: 12px; background: #EEF0DA; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.8; text-align: justify;">Authors are encouraged to clarify the cultural setting and social context, specify the level or sector of education, and report evidence and limitations with sufficient detail to support responsible interpretation and transferability.</div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- ========================= END IJECS HOMEPAGE ========================= --> en-US <p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"><img src="//i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" alt="Creative Commons License"></a><br>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a></strong> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</p> [email protected] (S. Ali Jadid Al Idrus) [email protected] (M. Irwan Hadi) Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0800 OJS 3.1.1.4 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/IJECS/article/view/9374 <p>This study investigates ability–performance misalignment in West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Mathematics examination outcomes in northeastern Nigeria. A quantitative explanatory cross-sectional design was employed using archival data from public senior secondary schools to examine discrepancies between classroom-based achievement and performance in a high-stakes external examination. The findings revealed that a substantial proportion of students exhibited ability–performance misalignment: some students with high classroom performance obtained low scores in the WAEC Mathematics examination, whereas some students with low classroom performance achieved comparatively high examination scores. Test anxiety, self-efficacy, and inconsistent assessment practices significantly contributed to this misalignment. These findings suggest that WAEC Mathematics examination results may not always accurately represent students’ mathematical achievement and highlight the need to reconsider how high-stakes assessment outcomes are interpreted and used in educational decision-making. The study contributes to the assessment literature by emphasizing the importance of integrating affective, instructional, and contextual factors when evaluating student performance and formulating assessment policies.</p> Hassan Muhammad, Sadik Hamagam, Angel Otse Ogbu ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/IJECS/article/view/9374 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:31:44 +0800 https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/IJECS/article/view/9375 <p>This study compares mathematics performance across essay-based secondary school examinations administered by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examinations Council (NECO) and the multiple-choice university entrance examination administered by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Nigeria. Using an ex post facto comparative design, archival mathematics examination records from 600 secondary school graduates were analyzed to determine the comparability of performance across the three examination systems. Mathematics performance in WAEC and NECO was operationalized using official grade classifications, whereas JAMB performance was assessed using subject-level aggregate score ranges. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics, score standardization, and paired-samples <em>t</em> tests. The findings showed that a substantial proportion of candidates who attained credit-level grades in WAEC and NECO Mathematics obtained relatively low aggregate scores in JAMB Mathematics. Standardized mean comparisons further indicated that the same candidates performed better in WAEC and NECO than in JAMB, while the paired-samples analysis confirmed that the differences were statistically significant and associated with a large effect size. These results demonstrate systematic variation in mathematics performance between essay-based and multiple-choice high-stakes examinations. The study contributes empirical evidence to the mathematics education literature on assessment comparability in multi-examination contexts and underscores the need for cautious interpretation of examination outcomes generated by assessment systems with different formats and purposes, particularly when such results inform high-stakes educational decisions.</p> Hassan Muhammad ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/IJECS/article/view/9375 Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:43:42 +0800