EVALUATION OF FINAL YEAR NCE STUDENTS ON THE ADEQUACY OF THE CCE SOCIAL STUDIES PROGRAMME FOR CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION
EVALUATION OF FINAL YEAR NCE STUDENTS ON THE ADEQUACY OF THE CCE SOCIAL STUDIES PROGRAMME FOR CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION
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2000-02
Authors
ATU , DANLADIABOK
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Abstract
This study on the Evaluation of Final Year NCE Students on the
adequacy of the NCCE Social Studies programme for citizenship
Education’ attempts to find answers to the following major questions:
i) Has the NCCE Social Studies programme academically
prepared the Social Studies Final Year Students to
effectively function as citizenship trainers at the primary
and JSS levels of our educational system?
ii) What is the level of Final Year Students’ opinion and feelings
about the programme, as a result of their exposure to the
NCCE Social Studies programme?
iii) Is there any relationship between Final Year Students’
teacher-trainees cognitive achievement and their opinion as
regards the adequacy of the NCCE Social Studies programme
in preparing them for effective citizenship training?
It is within this framework, that both the major objectives and
hypotheses of the study were articulated.
The population of the study involved all the final year Social
Studies teacher-trainees in the conventional Colleges of Education.
Within this population, twelve Colleges of Education were sampled for
the study. Two major instruments were used in obtaining data from the
twelve Colleges of Education sampled for the study. They are the NCE
basic citizenship achievement test (NCEBAT) and NCCE content
opinionaire (NECO).
From the analysis of the data obtained, the following findings were
established:
1. The respondents recorded a 81.7% success on achievement
test. Thus indicating that the NCCE is achieving its
objectives. There seems to be no wastage in the system.
2. 62% of the respondents displayed favourable attitudes as to
the adequacy of their opinion preparation.
With respect to the inferential analysis, the findings showed that
hypotheses one to four and eight were found to be significant when
tested at P>0.05 level of significance. On the other hand, hypotheses
five (5) and six (6) were upheld at the same level of significance.
Based on these findings, it was recommended that the scope of
assessing the NCE teacher-trainees be widened by evolving a package of
assessing their feelings and opinions at least before graduation rather
than restricting the level of assessment on academic achievement alone.
The NCCE to assume more responsibilities on the training of NCE
teachers. These should include acting as a common examining body for
the accredited colleges as well as funding.
NCE teacher-trainees to be exposed to common professional
examination before graduation.
It was suggested for further research, the need for a longitudinal
study to assess the level of NCE teachers’ components in the field.
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A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, AHMADU
BELLO UNIVERSITY,ZARIA ,IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN
SOCIAL STUDIES
Keywords
EVALUATION,, FINAL YEAR, NCE,, STUDENTS, ADEQUACY,, NCCE,, SOCIAL STUDIES,, PROGRAMME,, CITIZENSHIPEDUCATION