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

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ASSESSMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS COMPETENCE
IN IMPROVISATION AND USE OF INSTRUCTIONAL
RESOURCES FOR BASIC SCIENCE IN OYO STATEM.ED
RESEARCH PROPOSALBYOGUNGBADE, Oluwaseun
Atinuke01/67QW066DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE
EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN,ILORIN,
NIGERIASUPERVISOR DR. S.A. ONASANYA
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CHAPTER ONEIntroductionBackground 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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Clarification of Major Terms and Variables

• The following terms and variables defined
• Assessment
• Competence
• Resources
• Improvisation
• Basic Science Teacher
• Instructional Materials
• Basic School
• Use

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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.

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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

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CHAPTER THREEResearch Methodology

• Introduction
• Research Type
• Sample and Sampling Techniques
• Research Instrument
• Validation of Research Instrument
• Procedure for Data Collection
• Data Analysis Techniques

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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