ASSESSMENT OF PERCEIVED FACTORS INFLUENCING TEACHING AND LEARNING IN SELECTED TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN BAYELSA STATE
Authors:
Memory Queensoap*, Phd, Dogitimiye Memory, Joy Bedford Osokolo, Ayebanengimote Victor And Meshach Gbaye
Abstract:
The need to have effective teaching and learning is a concern to every stakeholder in the educational sector. The outcome of effective teaching and learning is a corresponding academic performance of students and thus this study aimed at assessing perceived factors influencing teaching and learning in selected Tertiary Institutions in Bayelsa State. This study, through proportional stratified random sampling technique and convenience sampling technique, selected a sample size of 324 from 1683 in Bayelsa State College of Health Technology (BSCHT) and Bayelsa State School of Nursing (BSSON). The study adopted a descriptive research design. Data were obtained with self-designed instruments (SPFITHI & SPFILHI) and data analysis was done with Microsoft Excel 2010 and Prism Graph Pad 5. It was revealed that among perceived factors influencing teaching, physical factors were most influential with grand mean, standard deviation and percentage mean of 3.32 +_ 0.82 and 83%. Perceived factors influencing learning mostly were received by physical factors (3.36 +_ 0.84& 83.9%). Other factors affecting teaching such as socio-cultural and mental factors received 2.99 +_ 0.89 with 74.8% and 3.19 +_ 0.73 with 79.8% respectively while those factors affecting learning other than the physical factors received 3.26 +_ 0.88 (81.74%) and 3.15 +_ 0.82 (78.8) for socio-cultural and mental factors. Result reveals that all perceived factors affect teaching and learning at a very high extent. All the null hypotheses tested were not significant, indicating that in as much as the perceived factors remain, independent to institutions respondent perceived them similarly at different institutions as they affect teaching and learning. The study concludes that the perceived factors influencing teaching and learning can be grouped as socio-cultural, physical cum mental factors. Based on this, recommendations were made, among which is the government should partner with the private sector to allocate adequate space, budgets for supplies, professional resources, equipment and overheads to tertiary institutions.