AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS IN BUSINESS SUBJECTS
AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS IN BUSINESS SUBJECTS
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Date
2000-02
Authors
ADEDIJO, ESTHER MOJOYINADE
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Abstract
Instructional materials are invaluable for enrichment purposes in teaching
and learning situation. Good performance in the subjects are ensured as a result of
its utilization. This is the reason why foreign educators and in recent times
Nigerian educators advocated for their use in teaching learning processes. Despite
this, instructional materials in teaching are often neglected in the teaching of
business subjects. It appears that out of numerous problems facing the teaching and
learning of business subjects, non availability of instructional materials seems to
be too pronounced. It was therefore thought necessary to investigate the utilization
of instructional materials in teaching of business subjects in Osun and Oyo States
College of Education. The study, was undertaken to find out the availability of
instructional materials in the colleges, to enumerate how useful instructional
materials are; to examine how often instructional material are used in classroom
situation; to identify problems encountered during usage and steps taken to find
solutions to the problems encountered while using instructional materials in
teaching. Sixteen (16) teachers and eight hundred and fifty (850) students formed
the population of this study. The sample for the study was (16) teachers and (265)
students. This survey study was carried out in five weeks. T-test statistic was used
for the analysis of data. The result showed that instructional materials are not
adequate, those that are available were not made use of while teaching. It was
found that instructional materials are useful and important to the teaching and
learning business subjects being skilled subject. The findings also revealed that
when and where some of these materials are available certain factors militate
against their use to promote affective teaching and learning. These include
inadequacy of materials, too much teaching load for the teachers, constant power
failure and lack of spare parts to replace the damaged ones. Based on these
findings, it was concluded that effective utilization of instructional materials has
great impact on the mastery of business subjects, promote students interest in the
subject and encourage teachers' efficiency; and that instructional materials in the
colleges are not sufficient. Based on the findings and conclusion drawn, it was
recommended that more instructional materials should be supplied to the Colleges
by the government; private organisations, philanthropists, individuals as well as the
parents and teachers association should take the concern to assist the government
in the purchase, supply and maintenance of equipment and materials. More
business subject teachers should be employed to the Colleges. Textbooks,
Workshops, Seminars and Conferences to acquaint teachers with the knowledge of
how to operate, use, as well as improvise instructional materials should be
organised. Lastly the teachers should be mandated to use instructional materials
while teaching.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE
SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, IN
PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF
MASTER IN BUSINESS EDUCATION
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
Keywords
AVAILABILITY,, UTILIZATION,, INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, BUSINESS SUBJECTS