Assessment of Availability and Utilization of Instructional Materials for Teaching Islamic Studies in Junior Secondary Schools in Kaduna State, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
The study focused on assessment of availability and utilization of instructional materials for teaching Islamic Studies in junior secondary schools in Kaduna state, Nigeria.
It explored, the responses of male and female teachers on relevance of instructional materials; assessed the extent to which urban and rural teachers utilize instructional materials for teaching of Islamic studies and
the responses of urban and rural teachers on obstacles to effective utilization of instructional materials in teaching of Islamic Studies in junior secondary schools in Kaduna State.
Literature was reviewed in line with the objectives, research questions and hypotheses in the study. Descriptive survey was utilized.
Out of the total population of five thousand six hundred and eight-three (5,683) Junior Secondary School teachers in Kaduna State, a sample of one hundred and eighty- three (183) Islamic studies teachers were drawn, through the use of purposive and quota sampling technique.
The researcher used instrument titled “Assessment of Availability and Utilization of Instructional Materials for teaching Islamic Studies questionnaire for collecting data.
The data collected were descriptively analyzed using mean and standard deviation, while the hypotheses were tested using t-test statistical tool. All the four (4) null hypotheses developed for the study were rejected at 0.05 level of significance.
INTRODUCTION
In Nigeria, the government pronouncement and activities is geared towards encouraging secondary school students to study abound.
Towards this development, the Nigeria Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) was mandated to develop Islamic studies curricula for use in Junior Secondary education and indeed all levels of educational system in Nigeria. In line with government declaration for Universal Basic Education Programme.
The NERDC was directed by the National Council on Education (NCE) to re-structure and re-align the existing Junior secondary school subjects curriculum to meet the target of the Nine (9) year Basic Education which seeks to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) now Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Mundi, 2008;
National Teachers Institute Kaduna-Nigeria, 2012; Nwafor & Eze, 2014) The curriculum reflects depth, appropriateness, and interrelatedness of the Islamic studies curricula contents.
Since the curricula represents the total experience to which learners must be exposed, the contents, performance objectives, activities and instructional materials were provided.
REFERENCES
Abass, B. T., Bimbo, A & Ojo, A.O. (2012).Effects of animated agricultural Science Instructional Package on attitude and performance of Junior Secondary School Students in South-West Nigeria. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 3(1):425-435.
Abdo, M. & Semela, T. (2010). Teachers of poor communities: The tale of instructional media in primary schools of Gedeo zone, Southern Ethiopia. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 35 (7), 78-92.
Abdulkareem, A.Y. (2008). Issues in Nigeria Education. Ilorin: Kewulere Press.
Abdullahi, A. (2007). A Study of the Relationship between Interest in Science and Science Curriculum Material. Journal of Researchers in Curriculum, 2, (4), 20-22.
Abdullahi, A. (2007). Islamic studies Teaching in Nigeria, Ilorin: Atoto Press.
Abdullahi, A.J. (2014). Instructional materials for teaching Islamic studies. Retrieved July 5th, 2016, from : http://.www.islamicstudiesresources.com
Be the first to comment