PHYSICS TEACHERS PERCEPTION ON THE RELEVANCE OF THEIR UNIVERSITY TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMMME IN TEACHING OF PHYSICS CONTENTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

The study determined the physics teachers’ perception on the relevance of physics contents of university teachers training programme in teaching of physics contents in secondary schools in Anambra State. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design, guided by three research questions. The entire population of this study 156 physics teachers in Anambra State (male: 79 and female: 77) in the 261 secondary schools in Anambra State was used without sampling. This is because the population was considered small and not all the schools have physics teachers. The instrument for the study was Teachers Perception on the Relevance of Physics Contents of their Training Program Questionnaire (TPRPCTPQ) adopted from Buabeng, Conner and winter (2016) and modified to suit the present study. The instrument was subjected to face validitation. The instrument was given to experts in measurement and evaluation from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, one science education lecturer from Nnamdi Azikiwe University. The internal consistency of the instrument was determined using conbranch’s alpha. The coefficient of 0.74 was obtained. Data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The findings of result show among others that Physics teachers in secondary schools in Anambra state have a very high relevance perception on the use of physics contents of university teachers training programme in teaching of physics contents in
secondary schools in Anambra State and that Greater percentage of physics teachers in secondary schools in Anambra state are not professionally trained as physics educationalist. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that Physics lecturers in
Universities should continue to implement the Benchmark Minimum Academic Standard for undergraduate physics programme in Nigeria universities curriculum planned effectively since it is of very high relevance to the teaching of physics contents in secondary school.