Needs Assessment of Nigerian Senior Secondary School Science Teachers for Improvement of Science Instruction in Taraba State in Nigeria.

Abstract

The study was conducted to examine the capacity needs of senior secondary schools of science teachers for acquisition of competencies for science instruction in Taraba State, Nigeria.  The study made use of survey research design with a total sample of 360 senior secondary shoo’ science teachers that was selected through proportionate stratified random sampling techniques. A ten item multiple choice test of’ structured questionnaire were developed for obtaining data on the capacity building needs for planning of science instruction. The instrument was face validated by 3 experts and the reliability coefficient of 0.90 was obtained using Cronbach alpha method. The data collected was analyzed using mean and improvement needed index (INI). The study found out that capacity building needs 10 items are highly needed by the science teachers for planning of science instruction and therefore, ii was suggested that the findings should be utilized to develop capacity building needs programme for a periodic retraining in form  of in-service programmes that will call out meaningful workshops or short duration courses for updating and maintenance of lifelong learning which is the heart of science teachers’ professionalism development for greater efficiency.

Key words:- Science Teachers, Capacity needs, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation, Instruction.