Assessment of Teacher Education Programme towards Enhancing Functional Universal Basic Education in Zaria Local Government Area, Kaduna State

Abstract

The researchers assessed the teacher education programme in enhancing functional universal basic education in Zaria Local Government, Kaduna State. The study was conducted using two objectives which were translated into research questions and hypotheses. A descriptive survey design was adopted with 340 populations using the sample size of 196, respondents were randomly selected. The instruments used for data collection was a questionnaire titled, “Assessment of Teacher Education Programme in Functional Universal Basic Education Questionnaire.” Frequency and simple percentages were used for descriptive analysis and Chi-squire was used for inferential analysis. The findings of the study revealed that: there is no significant difference in the extent to which teachers recruited produced by teacher education institutions for the functional Universal Basic Education Programme in Zaria Local Government, Kaduna State. This further confirmed that even though there was massive recruitment of teaching staff for the functional Universal Basic Education Programme, the opinion of the respondents still shows that most of the teachers recruited for functional Universal Basic Education Programme were not trained by teacher education training institutions in the study area. It was recommended among others that recruitment of teachers for functional Universal Basic Education programme should be done considering those graduated from teacher training institutions to give the best they can to the schools in question.