ASSESSMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS
COMPETENCE IN IMPROVISATION AND USE OF
INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES FOR BASIC
SCIENCE IN OYO STATE
M.ED RESEARCH PROPOSAL
BY
OGUNGBADE, Oluwaseun Atinuke
01/67QW066
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN,
ILORIN, NIGERIA
SUPERVISOR: DR. S.A. ONASANYA
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
Background to the Problem
• Senthil (2009) described education as a central role in every
aspect of life. Education is to impact knowledge. Hence
educators need to rethink the basic tenet, to develop the
media (instruction) in creative and productive way.
• Instructional Resources are human and non-human material
that are accessible to both the teachers and learners and
can enrich and enhance the quality of instruction. It make
learners to be inquisitor and get closer and contact with
instruction
and
learning,
Afolabi
(2004).
A good teacher should be knowledgeable about appropriate
criteria for the selection of instructional materials from
available materials for specific instructional objective.
Background to the Problem continued
• Improvisation of learning resources can be expressed as means
of providing from available resource, the instructional materials
needed for learning from community or immediate environment.
• Basic science is an important and core aspect of Nigerian
education curriculum for basic schools. It is a body of organized
knowledge and process of inquiry. Science is described as
bedrock of knowledge. It deals with fact and principles.
• UNESCO (2003) stated that it promotes development of
entrepreneurial skills in children, so as to be self independent.
• Since more jobs today requires people who have the ability to
learn, reason, think and act fact. Hence we need to catch them
young.
Statement of the Problem
Incompetence of teachers to improvise instructional resources
has been said to be one of the factors responsible for poor
performance of learners, especially in our primary schools. A lot of
studies have been carried out to improve effective teaching learning
process by different researchers.
Adeniran (2005) examined strategies for production and level of
improvised biology instructional material and discovered that
instructional media are inadequate in the schools.Adelakun (2005)
studied on acquisition production and utilization of teaching resources
and its effects on academic achievement of secondary students in
mathematics, he opined the use of real life situation as teaching
Statement continued
materials facilitates easy communication which leads
to better retention of what is learned that using what
they have not experienced or seen before.
•
Hence the study is set out to assess Basic
science teachers improvising instructional material by
making use of locally available materials close to the
and involving them in the lesson, in order to stimulate
effective learning of Basic science right from primary
schools.
Purpose of the Study
This study is designed to assess teachers’ competency in the
use of improvised instructional resources for teaching Basic Science
in primary schools in Ibadan Metropolis, Oyo State.
• Specifically this study will;
• Assess teachers’ level of competency in the use of available
instructional resources, Non-Human Resources.
• Determine the influence of teaching qualification on Basic Science
Teachers’ competence in improvising for instructional resources.
• Assess the influence of the experience on teachers’ competence in
improvisation of instructional resources.
Research Questions
The following research questions are to be explored:
•
Will availability of instructional materials influence the
competence of Basic Science Teachers?
•
Do Basic Science Teachers’ qualifications have any
influence on the use of improvised instructional materials?
•
Will Basic Science Teachers’ experience have influence
on the accessibility of improvised instructional materials?
•
Will Basic Science Teachers’ experience have influence
on the use of improvised instructional materials?
Research Hypotheses
The following research hypotheses are formulated for
the study:
Ho1: There is no significant difference between experienced
and less experienced basic science teachers in the use of
improvised instructional materials.
Ho2: There is no significant difference between qualified and
unqualified Basic Science Teachers in the use of improvised
instructional materials.
Ho3: There is no significant difference between competency of
Basic Science Teachers and availability of improvised
instructional material.
Scope of the Study
• This study will be carried out in the selected primary schools in
Ibadan Metropolis in Oyo State. The study will focus on the level
of competence of teachers in the use of instructional materials
improvisation for teaching of basic science.
• All basic science teachers in the selected primary schools will
constitute the sample for study in the eight local governments out
of
the
available
eleven
local
government
within
Ibadan
metropolis. These are Ibadan North, Ibadan North-East, Ibadan
North-West, Ibadan South-West, Ibadan South-East, Egbeda,
Lagelu and Akinyele of Oyo state, due to constrain in time.
Clarification of Major Terms and Variables
The following terms and variables defined
• Assessment
• Competence
• Resources
• Improvisation
• Basic Science Teacher
• Instructional Materials
• Basic School
• Use
Significance of the Study
The finding of this study would help in educating teachers on
the use of local available instructional materials instead of
imported and expensive ones. The study will be of
immeasurable value to educators, teachers, curriculum
designers, policy maker as well as those involves with
teaching personnel training. It will serve as an eye opener to
teachers in solving the problem of rote-learning encounter by
learners. Learners will become active and participants in
instruction through improvisation and accessibility of material
for teaching and proper observation and discovery of new
idea.
CHAPTER TWO
Review of Related Literature
• Introduction
• This chapter deals with a review of related literature. It has
been discussed under the following sections
• Educational technology and instructional resources
• Assessment of primary school teachers
• Improvisation of instructional resources in teaching and
learning of basic science
• Objectives and Contents of Basic Science Curriculum in
Basic Schools
• Teachers and the teaching of basic science
• Appraisal of the literature review
CHAPTER THREE
Research Methodology
• Introduction
• Research Type
• Sample and Sampling Techniques
• Research Instrument
• Validation of Research Instrument
• Procedure for Data Collection
• Data Analysis Techniques
Research Type
• This study is descriptive research using survey method.
The use of descriptive research type will make the
researcher to collect relevant data that would produce
meaningful fact to answer the research questions raised
on assessment of teachers’ competence in the use of
improvised instructional resources for teaching of basic
science in primary schools.
Sample and Sampling Techniques
• The population of this study will consist all the primary schools in
the eight local governments in Ibadan metropolis.
• The target population would consist of three hundred basic
science teachers in the selected primary school in Ibadan North,
North East, North West, South West, South East, Egbeda, Lagelu,
Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State. The sample would
be selected using the purposive sampling techniques.
• Therefore the sampling will deliberately focus on teachers
handling
basic
science
only.
The
qualification
area
of
specialization and experience of the selected teachers will be
assessed.
Research Instrument
• The instrument to be used in this study would be a research
designed
questionnaire
on
the
Assessment
of
Teachers’
Competency in the use of Improvised Instructional Resources
(ATCIIR) in teaching of basic science. The instrument would be
divided into three sections A, B and C.
• Section A would seek information on the name of the school,
teachers
qualification,
area
of
specialization
and
teaching
experience.
• Section B would contain information on the availability and use of
instructional materials for teaching. Section C of the research
questionnaire would seek to find out the competency level of
teachers in improvising for needed instructional resources for
teaching basic science.
Validation of Instrument
• Validation of the instrument will be done by giving the draft
of the questionnaire to some specialist in Department of
Education Technology at University of Ibadan for necessary
corrections, after which the instrument will be given to the
researcher Supervisor for final corrections. This is to
ensure the face and content validity of the research
instrument. The reliability of the test instrument would be
ensured by the use of test-retest method.
• The researcher would make use of three schools which
would not partake in the research. These are Community
Primary School, Oki-Pataki; Victory Assurance Primary
School, Wakajaye and Community Primary School 1,
Olode, New Ife Road, Ibadan. Hence the questionnaire
shall be pre-tested twice at an interval of four weeks using
Pearson product moment Correlations co-efficient to
analyse the data. The result of the test will determine the
level of reliability of the instrument used.
Procedure for Data Collection
• After obtaining the permission by the researcher
from the selected schools to be used.
The
researcher will administer the questionnaire to
basic science teachers in the selected schools in
Oyo State. The teachers will be encouraged to
fill the questionnaire on the spot. Thereafter, the
questionnaire will be collected immediately after
response.
Data Analysis Techniques
Descriptive statistics i.e. percentage will be
used to answer research questions, t-test
statistical analysis will be used to test for
hypotheses 1 to 3.
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