INFLUENCE OF AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION STUDENTS IN FEDERAL COLLEGES OF EDUCATION, NORTH-CENTRAL ZONE, NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorIFEAKOR, Mary-Rose Njideka
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-04T07:45:12Z
dc.date.available2021-11-04T07:45:12Z
dc.date.issued2019-12
dc.descriptionA THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION, FACULTY OF EDUCATION, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIAen_US
dc.description.abstractThe researchwork investigated the influence of availability and utilization of instructional materials on academic performance of agricultural science education students in Federal Colleges of Education in North-central zone, Nigeria. The study was guided by three specific objectives, three research questions, and two null hypotheses. Descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population of the study was 610 people comprising of 557 students and 53 lecturers of agricultural science education. Theproportion of 83 students and 27 lecturers were randomly sampled from the population and used for the study. Structured questionnaire and questionnaire checklistwere used as instrument for data collection. Four trained research assistants were used to distribute the questionnaireand collect data from the respondents, a questionnaire checklist was used to cross-check the available instructional materials indicated by the lecturers in the colleges.The data collected were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation, t-test and regression statistics were used to test null hypotheses 1 and 2 respectively at 0.05 level of significance (p=0.05). The result of the study revealed thatvisual instructional materials such as real objects/specimen, models, posters, charts, maps, pictures/photograph, chalkboard and chalks, marker-board and marker, handouts, journals, magazines, textbooks and e-books as well as audio-visual instructional materials such as slides, projectors and computers were available in Federal Colleges of Education in North-central, Nigeria. The audio instructional materials such as radio/sound system, public address system and audio-tape/recorder as well some audio-visuals like television set, video tape/recorder/player, DVD/player/recorder were not available in any of the colleges. Students and lecturers often use visual and audio-visual instructional materials for teaching and learning of agricultural education courses. The null hypothesis one affirmed that students and lecturers did not vary in their opinions regarding the extent to whichvisual and audio-visual instructional materials are used in teaching and learning of agricultural education courses (t-cal.=3.66, p=.17). The null hypothesis two affirmed that theutilization of visual and audio-visual instructional materials in teaching and learning of agricultural education courses has significantinfluence on students‟ academic performance (r-cal.=.25, p=.020). The researcher therefore recommended that the college management boards should provide the instructional materials that are lacking in the department and the lecturers should further use instructional materials in teaching to improve students‟academic performance.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/12688
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectINFLUENCE OF AVAILABILITY,en_US
dc.subjectUTILIZATION,en_US
dc.subjectINSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS,en_US
dc.subjectACADEMIC PERFORMANCE,en_US
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL EDUCATION STUDENTS,en_US
dc.subjectFEDERAL COLLEGES OF EDUCATION,en_US
dc.subjectNORTH-CENTRAL ZONE,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIAen_US
dc.titleINFLUENCE OF AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION STUDENTS IN FEDERAL COLLEGES OF EDUCATION, NORTH-CENTRAL ZONE, NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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