AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL UPPER BASIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CURRICULUM IN SOUTH EAST NIGERIA

Abstract

This study investigated on availability and utilization of instructional materials for the implementation of the national upper basic information technology curriculum in south east Nigeria. The study was carried out in south eastern Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Two research questions guided the study. The population of the study comprised all the government co-educational secondary schools in south east Nigeria. Simple random
sampling technique by balloting was use to select twenty schools each in all the five south eastern states of Nigeria making a total of 100 co-educational government own upper basic schools. In each school selected, two information technology upper basic teachers were used in the study making it a total of forty teachers in one state. In total were 200 upper basic information technology teachers. The instrument used in collecting data for the study was a structured questionnaire developed by the researchers which had 28 items. The instrument is titled “Instructional Materials Used for the Implementation of the National Upper Basic Information Technology Curriculum (IMUINUBITC)”. The questionnaire was made up of three sections, A, B and C. A dealt with personal data while section B had 14 items which focused on availability and section C comprised 14 items which sought information on utilization. The validity of the instrument was established by three experts. The data were trial tested with ten (10) teachers from Delta State outside south eastern Nigeria. Cronbach alpha reliability co-efficient was used to determine the reliability and it yielded 0.60 and 0.70 for the two clusters. The overall reliability is 0.65. The findings among other
things revealed that some of the instructional materials which were meant to use in the implementation of the national upper basic information technology curriculum were not available for use in most of the schools. From the findings recommendations were made.