Adequacy and utilization of educational resources in teaching and learning of electrical and electronics engineering programmes: A case study of Universities in Northern Nigeria.

Abstract

The study was designed to investigate the adequacy and utilization of educational resources in teaching and learning of electrical and electronics engineering programmes: a case study of universities in northern Nigeria. Three research questions and one hypothesis guided the study and tested at P< 0.05. A survey design was employed for the study. The target population for this study was made up of 187 lecturers, 61 technical staff and 812 final year students in the universities in northern Nigeria offering electrical and electronics engineering as a programmme and has graduated students in the last five years The purposeful random sampling was used to sample two universities from each of the three geo- political zones in northern Nigeria, making a total of six universities, random sampling was used to sample 91 Lecturers, 47 Technical staff, and 371 500Level students. In carrying out the study a 42-items questionnaire validated by three experts was used to collect data. Ratio, mean statistics, standard deviation and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used in the analysis. The findings revealed that the ratio of Professors to Senior Lecturers to Lecturers is 10:14:76; the ratio of lecturers to students is 1:36; Instructional materials like models, pictures, computer facilities are inadequate. It is recommended among others that; institutions should make effort to employ qualified staff to ensure that 20:35:45 of Professors to Senior Lecturers to Lecturers and 1:15 of Students to Lecturers and Instructional materials such as televisions, projects, filmstrips, models, computer facilities and pictures should be made available, because adequate use of it offer a variety of reality of experience which stimulates self-activity on the part of learner and also it hold the learner’s attention.