Assessment of the perceived Impact of Teaching practice on Student-Teachers in Federal College of Education (Technical), Omoku, Rivers state

Abstract

This study was undertaken to assess the perceived impacts of teaching practice on student-teachers in Nigerian federal colleges of education. The design of the study was descriptive survey. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The population consisted of two hundred and seventy-one (271) students of 2021/2022 final year National Certificate in Education (NCE) students from Federal College of Education (Technical), Omoku. A sample of 150 final year students made up of 75 male and 75 female was selected through simple random and stratified sampling technique. The instrument for the study was titled ‘Perceived Impacts of Teaching Practice on Student-Teachers Questionnaire (PITPSTQ)’ was used to collect date. The instrument was face and content validated by three (3) experts from Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri, Imo State. To ensure the reliability of the instrument, 40 copies of the questionnaire were administered to 40 student-teachers from Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education Owerri, Imo State. Data collected were analyzed using Cronbach Alpha to find the internal consistency of the instrument. The internal consistency estimates for the instrument was 0.86. In getting the instruments across to the respondents, the researchers employed the face to face method. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses. The result revealed an overwhelming agreement by student-teachers that almost all the items are the benefits of teaching practice. Thus, leading to the conclusion that, student- teachers derived great benefits from participating in the teaching practice exercise. Based on this, it was recommended amongst others that proper orientation of student-teachers should be carried out using efficient means of communication like; seminars, workshops, conferences and discussion to increase student-teachers’ interest and participation.