EVALUATION OF THE CONTENT AND ORGANISATION OF HOME MANAGEMENT TEXTBOOKS FOR SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
EVALUATION OF THE CONTENT AND ORGANISATION OF HOME MANAGEMENT TEXTBOOKS FOR SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
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Date
1995
Authors
ALABI, OLUFUNMILAYO F.
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Abstract
This study was conducted to evaluate the content and
organisation of Home Management textbooks used at the Senior
Secondary Schools in Nigeria. Two commonly used Home
Management Textbooks at the Senior Secondary Schools were
selected for evaluation. These are Book I -- Home Management
Textbook by CESAC (1980) Macmillan publisher Ltd., Nigeria.
Book II - Home Management for School and Colleges by Anyakoha
E. and Eluwa E. (1991) Africana Fep. The following
evaluation criteria were used:i)
Content Coverage
ii) Freedom of content from sex bias
iii) Quality and location of questions used in the
textbook
iv) Quality of Activities and practicals contained in
each textbook.
v) Ease of language used in each textbook.
vi) Provision of appropriate study Aids.
vii) Quality of illustration used in the textbook.
Instruments used for collecting data included:i)
Use of Check List of topics contained in Home
Management Curriculum for Senior Secondary School
for assessing content coverage for each book,
ii) Assessing the gender of pronounce used on the
preface for describing the target audience of the
book and determining percentage book space devoted
to photographs and drawings for each gender and for
combined gender,
iii) Use of Questionnaire
iv) Calculation of percentage book space devoted to
Activities and Illustrations,
v) Calculation of Readability co-efficient using Dale
Chall formula. Both books have very satisfactory scores in
the areas of content coverage, quality of activities/practical
work and illustration, although the use of colour is very
inadequate. On the other hand the language used in the two
textbooks was found to be difficult for the age group of
learners. Book II exhibited sex bias, it also lacked
intersperced questioned and did not provide summary at the end
of each chapter. Book I was free from sex bias but had no
table of index, no table of glossary and no summaries at the
end of each chapter.
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL AND
TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT
FOR A MASTER'S DEGREE IN EDUCATION (M. Ed) HOME MANAGEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
FACULTY OF EDUCATION.
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA.
Keywords
EVALUATION,, CONTENT,, ORGANISATIONAL,,, HOME MANAGEMENT,, TEXTBOOKS,, SENIOR,, SECONDARY SCHOOLS..