Stakeholders Perception of Economics Teachers Mastery of Professional Skills in Senior Secondary Schools in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria
Abstract
This paper is aimed to investigate the stakeholder perception of economics teacher mastery of professional skills in senior secondary school in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria. The study was guided by two research questions and two hypotheses were tested. The study adopted a correlation research design. The study population comprised 150 secondary school senior economics students and 20 stakeholders within the schools system in Abaji. Stratified proportionate sampling technique was used to sample 170 respondents from the population of the study. The researchers developed one sets of instruments titled ‘‘Stakeholders perception of Economics Teacher Questionnaire (SPETQ)’’ was used for data collection. The instrument was subjected to face and content validation by two experts who are lecturers; two in Department of economics education university of Abuja. Cronbach alpha was employed for the reliability test and this yielded a coefficient of 0.78, 0.68 and 0.81 for the three parts of (SPETQ) and 0.78 . Pearson product moment coefficient was used in answering the research questions and t-test was used in testing the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed among others that most economics teachers have adequate knowledge of their subject matter, good at lesson plan/lesson note writing skills, effective use of instructional aides, good evaluation skills, good at classroom management skills and marking and recording skills. also revealed that there That most economics teachers performs their job below expectation on the bases of comes to class regularly, gives enough assignment and class exercises, comes to class with his/her lesson plan, marks and records the CA and students exams on time and corrections of failed C.A and assignment in the class. Based on the findings, conclusion was drawn and it was recommended among others that government should provide training programme should be put in place by the government to refresh the economics teachers on the mastery of their professional skills. Some states in Nigeria have started on the job training for their teachers to upgrade the teachers. This should be extended to other states and the government should constant supervision of secondary to ensure that every teacher is doing its work. The principal should ensure effective instructional supervision in order to keep them at par with their foreign counterparts.
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