Capacity Building Needs Of Lecturers of Agricultural Education In Soil Testing For Effective Teaching Of Students In Colleges Of Education In South-East, Nigeria.

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to determine capacity building needs of lecturers of agricultural education in soil testing (NPK) for effective teaching of students in Colleges of Education in South-easth, Nigeria. Four research questions guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The study was conducted in 8 Colleges of Education in South-east, Nigerian offering Agricultural Education programme. The population of the study was 107 lecturers. The entire population was involved in the study. An instrument titled Soil Testing Capacity Building Needs Questionnaire (STCBNQ) was used for data collection. Three experts face validated the questionnaire. Cronbach alpha reliability method was used to determine the internal consistency of the questionnaire items. A reliability coefficient of 0.90 was obtained. Data collected for the study were analyzed using weighted mean, standard deviation and Improvement Need-Performance Index (INPI) to answer the research questions. It was found out from the study that lecturers of Agricultural Education in Colleges of needed capacity building on  12 items in soil sampling,  6 items in testing for soil Nitrogen,  9 items in testing for soil Phosphorus and 9 items in testing for soil Potassium for effective teaching of students in Colleges of Education in South-east, Nigeria. It was recommended that lecturers of Agricultural Education in Colleges of Education should utilize the findings of this study on their capacity building needs to seek for sponsorship from their administrators in order to attend re-training programme for their capacity building in soil testing and analysis among others.

Keywords: capacity building, lecturers of agricultural education, soil testing, soil sampling, Nitrogen-Phosphorus-Potassium.