COST AND EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING PRACTICE AMONG STUDENT-TEACHERS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA.

Abstract

This study examined cost and effectiveness of teaching practice among student-teachers in tertiary institutions in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey research using “ex-post facto” approach with a targeted population of all 300 level and part three students from the Faculty of Ibadan, University of Ibadan and Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo, Oyo State respectively. The participants were randomly selected out of which 100 participants were from the University and 215 participants from College of Education to make the total sample of 315 participants out of which 311 respondents were eventually used for the study. A self-designed questionnaire titled: “Cost and Financial Implication of Teaching Practice Questionnaire for Students” (CFITPQS) was used in this study for data collection. The questionnaire was divided into four sections which made up of 27 items. The reliability of the instrument was used to determined Cronbach’s’ Alpha coefficient of r= 0.75.  The result of the study showed that student-teacher also incurred cost during teaching and this cost (money) contributed to their effectiveness to a little extent. In addition, there are some financial challenges that student-teachers faced during the exercise. The findings of this study revealed above reveals that there is no significant difference in financial challenges faced by student teachers during teaching practice exercise between student-teachers from the University of Ibadan and the Emmanuel Alayande College of Education (t=5.04, p>0.05).  Also, the results showed that there is no significant difference in financial challenges faced by student teachers during teaching practice exercise between student-teachers from the University of Ibadan and the Emmanuel Alayande College of Education (t=5.04, p>0.05). Based on these findings, the study recommended among others that authorities of all teacher training institutions with the support of the government should give the student-teachers some financial assistance for their upkeep during the period of teaching practice. This will help equipped them financially and ease any financial problems they might encounter during teaching practice exercise.