CHAPTER
THREE
3:1. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research Design is a descriptive survey, since It seeks to
identify teacher’s attitude towards writing of lesson notes by getting the
opinions of respondents, which will enable the researcher to reach specific
conclusions.
Research population
The
research population is made up of five primary schools in Ilorin metropolis of
kwara state. It is on those schools that the results of the research works are
generalized/
3:2 Sample and Sampling techniques
Sample refers to a fair
representation of the population in a particular research effort, In this study
by the means of stratified random sampling techniques five schools were selected
out of all primary schools, Ilorin metropolis.
The
Schools are as follows:-
1.
L.G.E.A Primary School,Ilorin
2.
Methodist Primary School, Ilorin
3. United
Primary School Taiwo Road,Ilorin
4.
Stephen Fountain Of Knowledge Primary School,Ilorin and
5. Sheikh
Alimi Primary School,Sawmill, Ilorin
Moreover, twenty teachers were
randomly selected from each school, giving a total of one hundred respondents
in all
3:3 Research Instrument
A research instrument is any
acceptable tools tha can be utilized for collecting informations in a research
work. (Best,1999).
In this
study, the research Instrument is titled “Teachers attitude towards writing of
lesson notes questionnaire”. It is divided into two sections,’A’ and ‘B’
Section
‘A’ contains a few items that eventually deals with personal information only
while section ‘B’ comprises of items that specifically deals with teachers
attitude towards writing lesson notes.
The items in section ‘B’ are
further classified into three categories that correspond to the three research Question
s. Respondents are required to underline the relevant options in Section ‘A’
while they are to tick their chosen option in section ‘B’
3:4. Validity of the instrument
Validity of an instrument is the
extent to which the instrument measure what it claims to measure. In this
study, after the instrument is been preoared, it was submitted o teachers that
are highly skilled in educational research, including the supervisor. These
experts went through the instrument, correct and the researcher eventually came
up with acceptable items. Hence, the instrument achieved faced or content
validity.
3:5. Reliability of the instrument
Daramola (1995),are instrument is the degree of
consistency of such as instrument in the study, a plot study first took place
by selecting thirty respondent from the population but outside the actual
sample , They were given copies of the instrument to respondent.
Thereafter, the two sets of
responses were scored and sub-sequently to the Pearson product movement correlation
coefficient formula in order to determine their extent of their relationship.
The coefficient of correlation obtained was 0.81, indicating that the
instrument achieved very high test-retest.
3:6. Administration of the instrument
The researcher personally paid
visits to the sampled schools to administer the instrument with the assistance
of head teachers, Assistance head teachers, heads of department and councilor’s
copies of the instrument were efficiently administered. The Researcher came
back after a few days to retrieve all the one hundred (copies) of each given
out.
3:7. Data
Analysis
The response of the research
subjects were collated and then subjected to frequent counts and percentages,
being results on the opinions of the majority of the respondents.
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