ABSTRACT

The study was carried out to assessed the effectiveness of micro-teaching programme for enhancing biology trainee teachers’ instructional delivery skills in tertiary institutions in Akwa Ibom State. The study was guided by six research questions and six corresponding null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was 144 comprising 98 final year Biology education students and 46 Science education lecturers of Faculty of Education University of Uyo and Akwa Ibom State College of Education. The entire population of 144 comprising 98 final year Biology education students and 46 Science education lecturers was adopted using census technique. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire developed by the researcher and validated by three experts from College of Education, Michael Okpara University ofAgriculture, Umudike. The reliability ofthe instrument was 0.76 obtained using Cronbach’s Alpha statistic. The data collected were analysed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while the null hypotheses were tested using t-test statistic. The results of the data analyses revealed that: To a high extent micro-teaching programme enhance Biology trainee teachers’ instructional planning, classroom management, use of instructional materials, use of instructional methods/strategies and evaluation skills in tertiary institutions in Akwa Ibom State. Also, the challenges facing the effectiveness of micro-teaching programme in tertiary institutions in Akwa Ibom State include: poor funding of teacher education programme, poor implementation of biology trainee teachers’ education policies, strike actions consistently embark by academic unions affect teacher education programme, inadequate provision of instructional devices for equipping the biology education trainee teachers, poor teaching and learning environment among others. Based on the findings, it was recommended that: There is need to ensure that Biology trainee teachers’ are adequately expose to micro-teaching and guided properly to enable them acquire relevant instructional skills to a very high extent so as to boost their confidence as professional train teachers in tertiary institutions in Akwa Ibom State.