COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

This study compared the instructional media availability and utilization in the public and private senior secondary schools (SSS) in Kaduna state. The specific objectives of the study were to: find out which instructional media are available, find out the teachers’ self-efficiency in utilization of instructional media for instruction purpose, find out the frequency at which the instructional media are being utilized for instructional purposes, find out factors militating against the use of instructional media in public and private SSS in Kaduna state. The research design adopted for this study was a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was made up of teachers teaching in public and private SSS in Kaduna South Local Government Area of Kaduna state. The school total population comprised of 42 private and 8 public schools whole the numbers teachers teaching in public senior secondary schools are 360 teachers are from public senior secondary schools and 1060 teachers from the private senior secondary schools. A specially designed questionnaire and observation checklist were administered on the selected respondents to collect relevant data. The data analysis was conducted using descriptive statistics for items in the scale. The descriptive statistics used include; simple percentage, frequency, mean and standard Deviation. In addition, an inferential statistical tool; t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The finding of the study shows that there is significant difference in the availability and utilization of instructional media in public and private SSS in Kaduna State. It was discovered that instructional media are more available and utilized in the private SSS than in the public SSS in Kaduna State. It was therefore recommended that government and stakeholders in the state should collaborate with education board to provide financial supports to acquire and install necessary instructional media in public senior secondary schools in Kaduna State.