GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

The study sought to find out the joint effect of instructional media design, teaching experience and knowledge of improvised instructional media as determinants of teachers’ performance in secondary schools in Uyo Senatorial District. Two objective and hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted a survey-research-design. The population of the study included all the male and female teachers and students in 96 secondary schools in the 6 local Education Committees (LEC) of Uyo Senatorial district of Awa Ibom state. The researcher developed an instrument tagged “Media Utilization Questionnaire (IMUQ) and Questionnaire on Students’ Perception of Teachers’ Performance (QSPTP)” for data collection. To ensure that the instrument is reliable, split-half reliability estimate using 0.86 and 0.73 reliability coefficient was run on the questionnaire. The hypotheses were analysed using T-test and Multiple Regression analysis. From the result of the findings, it was observed that there is significant effect of teachers’ knowledge of instructional media utilization on teachers’ performance as perceived by the students. Also that there is a joint influence of design strategies, teaching experiences and teachers’ knowledge of improvised instructional materials on teachers’ performance. It was recommended among others that teachers should try to present their lessons using appropriate instructional communication principles and practice, having a good knowledge of their subject matter, making use of varieties of local resources and also integrating them in or matching them with instruction.