Assessment of Effective Utilization of Educational Research Findings in Nigerian Universities: Problems and Prospects

Abstract

The study assessed the extent of effective utilization of educational research findings by lecturers in federal and state universities in South East zone of Nigeria. A descriptive survey was used. The population comprised all education lecturers in the Faculty of Education of federal and state universities. 108 education lecturers from federal and 95 from state universities formed the sample. Stratified random sampling was used to select the universities while simple random sampling was used to select the subjects. The instrument was a 25-item questionnaire developed by the researcher. The instrument was validated and reliability coefficient was computed. Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. Data were analyzed using means, standard deviation and hypotheses were tested using z-test statistic at 0.05 level of significance. Results showed that educational research finding are underutilized. Problems and prospects of educational research findings were proffered. Strategies for achieving effective utilization of educational research findings were identified. Recommendations were made among which is, that federal and state governments should provide adequate fund to educational researchers to help in the development of self, institutions and the society.

Keywords: Assessment, educational research, problems, prospects and effective utilization

LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research, 9(2), 28-40, 2012