AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION OF FACILITIES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF FISHERY TRADE CURRICULUM IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN DELTA STATE, NIGERIA – International Journal of Research in Education Humanities and Commerce

AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION OF FACILITIES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF FISHERY TRADE CURRICULUM IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN DELTA STATE, NIGERIA

Authors: Imobighe, M. U. Ph.D., Okofu, S. N. Ph.D., Ogwu, C. Ph.D., & Iloba, L. O

ABSTRACT

Youths’ unemployment and its concomitant effect on human and food insecurity have assumed a crisis dimension in Nigeria in recent times. Federal government efforts at solving this social malaise through equipping youths with functional skills for job and wealth creation, poverty, and hunger eradication led to the introduction of a trade curriculum in the fishery in senior secondary schools. Instructional facilities availability and utility are imperative for effective vocational skills inculcation in the recipients and this mandated this study. This study investigated the availability and utilization of facilities for the implementation of the Fishery trade curriculum in public secondary schools in Delta state. The design of the study was an ex-post facto employing the survey method. The study answered two research questions and tested two null hypotheses. The data collection instrument was a structured questionnaire constructed on 5 points Likert scale type. The questionnaire was validated by 3 experts in Agricultural Education and Test and Measurement while, the reliability and internal consistency were determined using split-half, Cronbach alpha, and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, and a coefficient of 0.75 was obtained which was adjudged adequate for the study. The population of the study comprised 376 Fishery teachers in the public senior secondary schools in Delta State, while the sample obtained using Slovin 1960 sample size formula was 195. The data collected were analyzed with mean, and standard deviation to answer research questions, and the hypotheses were tested with t-test statistics. The study revealed that there is a gross dearth of facilities for instruction in Fishery. It also showed that few facilities available are poorly utilized. Equally revealed by the study are that there are no disparities in the facilities available in rural and urban public secondary schools and that the available facilities utilization is not significantly different in rural and urban secondary schools in Delta State. The study recommends that government should provide facilities for Fishery instructions to enable Fishery teachers to implement the Fishery trade to engender skill acquisition among students and teachers should utilize the few available facilities.

Keywords: Fishery; facilities; facilities utility; skills acquisition; poverty eradication

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