AVAILABILITY, ACQUISITION AND UTILIZATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR TEACHING GEOGRAPHY IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN JOS NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA
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Availability, Acquisition, Utilization, Instructional Materials, Improvisation, Geography, Education, Secondary SchoolsAbstract
The aim of this study was to find out the availability, acquisition and utilization of instructional materials for Teaching Geography in Secondary Schools in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State, Nigeria. Simple Random Sampling was used to select three (3) Secondary Schools within the study area and 90 SSII geography students and 10 geography teachers, totalling 100 were sampled out of the estimated population of 2000 SSII geography students based on enrolment in the study area. Ninety (90) students with thirty (30) students from each school and three (3) teachers each from two of the Secondary Schools and four (4) teachers from the third school totalling sample size of 100. The instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire. Mean score, Standard deviation and Chi-square were adopted as the statistical techniques for data analysis. The findings showed that, there is inadequacy of instructional materials in secondary schools for teaching geography. The hypotheses was tested at 0.05 level of significance using Chi-square and the result indicates that teacher qualification, years of experience and training on instructional materials use significantly influence the utilization of geography instructional materials (X2calculated,119.60>X2critical, 9.4888).
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