Investigation of Technological Availability and Teachers Technological Proficiency in Public Secondary School in Rivers State (Published)
This study investigated the availability of technology and teachers’ technological proficiency in public secondary school in Rivers State. The study adopted the survey research design. The population of the study was all the 7,425 public secondary school teachers in the 268 in Rivers State. Simple random sampling technique was first used to select two schools from each LGA in the three senatorial districts of Rivers State, which gave a total of 46 schools. Again the simple random sampling technique was used to select 10 teachers from each sampled schools, which gave a sample size of 460 teachers. The instrument for data collection was a self-constructed questionnaire titled “Availability of Technology and Teachers Technological Proficiency Questionnaire (ATTTPQ)”, which had been validated by experts. The reliability index was established using Cronbach Alpha formula and a value of 0.79 was obtained. Three research questions were formulated and answered using frequency count and simple percentage and mean. The findings revealed that, majority of the schools lacks technological facilities and the few available once are computers, photocopiers and printers. The study also revealed that most of the teachers also lack technological proficiency. The study recommended that; the government should endeavor to provide some of the basic technological facilities in schools because of it significant to teaching and learning and the secondary school administrators should periodically be organizing workshops/seminars for teachers on technological proficiency.
Keywords: Secondary School Teachers’, availability of technology, technology proficiency
SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION ON SOME DETERMINANTS OF STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN SOCIAL STUDIES (Published)
The focus of this study was on secondary school teachers’ perception on some determinants of students’performance in Social studies. Three research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated by the researchers that guided the study. The design of this study was descriptive survey research design aimed at eliciting information from the respondents on factors that determine students performance in secondary schools and the population of the study comprised 115 secondary school teachers teach Social studies in Abakaliki education zone. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire and data were analzed using mean and standard deviation for all reseach questions and t-test statistical tool was used for testing the null hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that government related factors, teachers’ related factors and students’ factors are some determinants of students’ performance in Social studies. The researchers reommended based on the findings that only competent and qualified Social studies teachers should be employ to teach the subject in secondary schools
Keywords: Perception, Secondary School Teachers’, Social Studies, Students performance