Pre-Service Teachers’ Problems of Improvisation of Instructional Materials in Social Studies in Ekiti State University

Abstract

This study examined problems of improvisation of instructional materials in Social Studies by pre-service teachers in Ekiti State University. The population for the study comprised all Social Studies pre-service teachers in the Faculty of Education. The sample consisted of 90 Social Studies pre-service teachers selected from 200, 300 and 400 levels. Simple random sampling was used to select 90 out of 220 consisting of 34males and 56 females.  The instrument used for the study was a questionnaire titled Problem of Improvisation of Social Studies Instructional Materials Questionnaire (PISSIMQ) designed by the researchers. The validity of the instrument  were  ensured by Social Studies experts who determined the face value and appropriate of the instrument in measuring pre-service teachers’ problems of improvisation of instructional materials in Social Studies. Test-re-test method of reliability was adopted for the instrument and the reliability coefficient of 0.70 was obtained. The data collected were analysed using t-test and ANOVA statistical tools. The study revealed that there is no significant difference in problem of improvisation of instructional materials between male and female pre-service teachers. It was also discovered that there is no significant difference in the problem of improvisation of instructional materials among the levels of pre-service teachers. It was therefore recommended that pre-service teachers should be encouraged to be resourceful by improvising necessary instructional materials to enhance teaching and learning when the real objects are not available.

Keywords: Improvisation, Pre-Service Teachers, Problems, Instructional Materials, Social Studies.