Nwobashi, C. S.
Department of Chemistry Education,
Ebonyi State College of Education, Ikwo
Ebonyi State, Nigeria.
Abstract.
The study was carried out to identify the impacts of school based cluster training in the effective teaching and learning of Basic Science and Technology in Primary Schools in South-South Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was 2511 made up of Basic Science and Technology teachers from the 1246 Primary Schools in South-South, Nigeria. 20% of the population of Basic Science and Technology teachers in each state was selected for the research. The sample for the study was drawn using simple random sampling technique. A total sample of 702 was used for the study. The instrument used for collecting data was a questionnaire titled ” impacts of schools based cluster training in Basic Science and Technology”. The instrument was developed by the researcher and it was validated by five experts. The instrument was tested for reliability using kuder-Richardson (K-20) formula and the reliability index was 0.85. The instrument was administered through the help of six
research assistants. The instrument was distributed and collected after two weeks and all were returned representing 100% retrieval rate. The data collected were analyzed using Mean and Standard Deviation for the research questions and Pearson product moment correlation coefficient to test the hypothesis. The results show that the school based cluster training introduced where effective teaching and learning were noticed include: production, use and improvisation of teaching and learning materials, teaching and
learning of computer concepts and operations; and implementation of continuous assessment among others. It was recommended that Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) should ensure that the training of teachers using the school based cluster is made an annual exercise so that all the Basic Science and Technology teachers in Primary Schools in the geo-political zone will all be trained, among other things.
Keywords: School based, Cluster training, Basic Science and Technology.
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