ASSESSMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES TOWARD THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BASIC ELECTRICITY SUBJECT IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN BAUCHI STATE

This paper assesses the instructional practices toward the implementation of Basic electricity subject in senior secondary schools. Two research questions guided the study, the respondents consisted of 64 Basic electricity subject teachers in Bauchi state; total population sampling techniques was used because of the small size of the population. Therefore, the entire population was considered to be sample of the study. A structured questionnaire tittle Assessment of Instructional practices toward the implementation of Basic Electricity Subject in Senior Secondary Questionnaire (AIPIBESSSQ) was used as instrument for data collection. The instrument was face validated by experts and a reliability coefficient of 0.78 was obtained using the Cronbach’s Alpha Reliability method. Mean and standard deviation was used for data analysis. The study revealed that Basic electricity teachers employed good numbers of instructional strategies on average with exception of few. It was also found that the Basic electricity teachers used appropriate assessment strategies in the implementation of the subject. Based on the findings, it was recommended that Basic electricity teachers should be up to date in their instructional practices for effective implementation of the subject.