FUNCTIONALITY AND ADEQUACY OF INSTRUCTIONAL FACILITIES FOR TEACHING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION STUDENTS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NORTH EAST, NIGERIA

By M. Mohammed, I. Audu & U. Danladi

Abstract: The study focus on functionality and adequacy of instructional facilities for teaching agricultural education students in colleges of education in North East, Nigeria, two objectives guided the study, two research questions were answered. The population of this study was two hundred and sixteen Lecturers (216).The Study used census sampling techniques as a sample; the study adopted a survey research design. All the two hundred and sixteen respondents were given the instrument to fill. The instrument was named Functionality and Adequacy of Instructional Facilities for Teaching Agricultural Education Questionnaire (FAIFTAEQ). This was used as an instrument for data collection; the instrument was found valid after the validations by three expert and later taken for reliability test. The instrument had reliability coefficients of 0.89 indicating that the instrument is reliable. Simple percentage was used to answer research question 1 & 2. The result shows that the higher percentage of the items (62.24%) were not functional which indicated that instructional facilities for teaching agricultural education is not functional in COE in the area among others. Based on the findings of this study, it was concluded that instructional facilities for teaching agricultural education were not functional and inadequate in the COE in the study area. From the findings, it is recommended among others that the College management should try their possible best to make the available facilities functional and adequate in the study area.
Keywords: Functionality, Adequacy, Instructional facilities and Agricultural Education