ASSESSMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS COMPETENCE IN IMPROVISATION AND USE OF

INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES FOR BASIC SCIENCE IN OYO STATE

M.ED RESEARCH PROPOSAL

BYOGUNGBADE, Oluwaseun Atinuke

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DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN,

ILORIN, NIGERIA

SUPERVISOR: DR. S.A. ONASANYA

CHAPTER ONEIntroduction

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 HypothesesThe 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 StudyThe 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 TWOReview 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 THREEResearch 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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