PERCEPTIONS OF STAKE HOLDERS ON THE ACADEMIC STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES FOR LABORATORY SKILLS ACQUISITION IN NIGERIAN POLYTECHNICS
PERCEPTIONS OF STAKE HOLDERS ON THE ACADEMIC STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES FOR LABORATORY SKILLS ACQUISITION IN NIGERIAN POLYTECHNICS
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2017-05
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UMAR, Fatima Kabir
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This study investigated the perceptions of stake holders on the Academic Staff Development
Programmes for Laboratory Skills Acquisition in Nigerian Polytechnics. It sought to identify
the academic staff development programmes available, ascertain the adequacy of academic
staff development programme, determine the accessibility of staff development programmes,
ascertain the relevance of staff development programmes to capacity building of staff to
teach laboratory skills, and two others. Seven research question and seven hypotheses were
formulated to guide the study. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The target
population was 2495 academic staff and 74,850 students of Science Laboratory Technology
Department in all the eighty seven (87) polytechnics offering Science Laboratory Technology
programme in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria. Stratified Sampling technique is used to
sample out twelve (12) polytechnics with a total of 398 academic staff and 1866 students.
Simple random sampling was employed to select thirty (30) students and Purposive sampling
was used to select twenty (20) academic staff from each of the twelve selected polytechnics.
Making a total of 240 academic staff and 360 students that are to complete the
questionnaires used for the data collection. Out of these, a total of 234 academic staff and
348 students‟ questionnaire were filled and returned. Data was analyzed using Statistical
Package for Social Science (SPSS Version 20). The descriptive statistics of items frequencies,
mean and standard deviations, was used to answer the research questions while the seven null hypotheses were tested using Chi-square (X2) contingency Test at 0.05 alpha level of
significance. The findings of this study revealed among others, that participation in
conferences, seminars, workshops has enhanced academic staff ability to develop students‟
critical thinking, knowledge of new research developments in his area of specialization. In
conclusion, the seven null hypotheses had p values that were lower than the significant value of 0.05alpha level of significance set for the study. In view of this, the null hypotheses were
rejected. Based on the findings from this study, recommendations were made among others
that: Federal and state government should set up monitoring team to all state and Federal;
Polytechnics for regular inspection of laboratory materials, Staff of polytechnics especially
the academic staff be made to acquire adequate skill on laboratory practices. Non
governmental agencies and rich individuals should assist in complementing government
efforts financially
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FUFILLMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF
PHILOSOPHY (PhD) IN
CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS AND CURRICULUM,
FACULTY OF EDUCATION,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA
Keywords
PERCEPTIONS,, STAKE HOLDERS,, ACADEMIC STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES,, LABORATORY SKILLS ACQUISITION ,, NIGERIAN POLYTECHNICS