ASSESSMENT OF NIGERIA CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION (NCE) TEACHERS ATTAINMENT GOALS IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NORTHWEST GEOPOLITICAL ZONE OF NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorUMAR, Ahmad Kalmolo
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-17T15:36:21Z
dc.date.available2018-09-17T15:36:21Z
dc.date.issued2018-01
dc.descriptionA DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN EDUCATION (CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION) DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS AND CURRICULUM, FACULTY OF EDUCATION, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIAen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study assessed the Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) teachers‟ attainment goals for Junior Secondary Schools Northwest Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria. The study was conducted to find out NCE teachers‟ attainment goals in junior secondary schools (JSS). Five (5) research objectives were designed which aimed to assess: the NCE teachers attainment goals in production of highly motivated quality teachers; the NCE teachers attainment goals in enhancing spirit of enquiry and creativity to teachers; the NCE teachers‟ attainment goals of helping teachers to fit into social life of the immediate community; the NCE teachers attainment goal of enhancing intellectual and skills acquisition by teachers; and NCE teachers attainment goals of inculcating commitment to national objectives; in junior secondary schools in northwest geopolitical zone, Nigeria. The study postulated five (5) research questions and five (5) research hypotheses which are both in line with the research objectives. Appropriate literatures were reviewed and theoretical framework for the study was built on the theory of teacher training model. The research adopted descriptive survey research design. Two instruments were used; a questionnaire and structured interview. The target population was twenty-six thousand four hundred and forty (26,440) while the sample size is three hundred and eighty (380) which comprises of one hundred and seventy-six (176) JSS teachers, sixty-four (64) junior secondary school principals, sixty-eighty (68) SUBEBS officials and seventy-two (72) lecturers of NCE programme. These groups formed the respondents of questionnaire and the structured interviewed. The research questions were analyzed using percentages, frequency, means and standard deviation while non parametric statistic of Wilcoxon sign rank test was used to test the five (5) hypotheses. The structured interview was analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The outcome of the hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance revealed that null hypotheses one (1), two (2) and four (4) were rejected while three (3) and five (5) null hypotheses were accepted and retained. The study discovered that the pedagogical relevance of NCE goals of (JSS) in producing highly quality teachers‟ in teaching job was dissatisfactory, the level of spirit of inquiry and creativity is low, and in terms of intellectual and skills acquisition is also discouraging based on respondents opinions. The study concluded that the training received during NCE programme did not adequately produce high quality classroom teachers, with high spirit of enquiry and creativity and enhanced knowledge and skills to instruct the students at junior secondary schools in the geopolitical zone. It recommended that the teacher training institutions should review their curricula and the pedagogical contents of the NCE curriculum programme be improved in order to address the issue of ineffectiveness of teachers, particularly, in the aspect of intellectual and skills exhibition during lesson delivery.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10461
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectASSESSMENT,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIA CERTIFICATE,en_US
dc.subjectEDUCATION,en_US
dc.subjectTEACHERS ATTAINMENT GOALS,en_US
dc.subjectJUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS,en_US
dc.subjectNORTHWEST GEOPOLITICAL ZONE,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIAen_US
dc.titleASSESSMENT OF NIGERIA CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION (NCE) TEACHERS ATTAINMENT GOALS IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NORTHWEST GEOPOLITICAL ZONE OF NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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