GOVERNMENT’S PREPAREDNESS IN THE PROVISION OF RESOURCES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA

LUKMAN ADEDEJI; AKEEM ADEKUNLE

GOVERNMENT’S PREPAREDNESS IN THE PROVISION OF RESOURCES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA

LUKMAN ADEDEJI, AKEEM ADEKUNLE

Abstract

The study examined the level of preparedness of Lagos State Government in terms of provision of resources for the implementation of the senior secondary schools curriculum. One research question and two null hypotheses guided the study using a descriptive survey research design. Teachers, Vice Principals and Principals in all public senior secondary schools in Lagos State constituted the population. A total of 1080 participants made up of 900 teachers, 120 vice principals and 60 principals selected from 60 public secondary schools in Lagos State using multi-stage sampling technique. A researchers’ constructed, validated and reliable (r = 0.89) instrument tagged “Resources provision for the implementation of SS Curriculum Questionnaire” (RPF/SSCQ) was used to collect data for the study. Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics to answer the research question while one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the two hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the analysed showed that there was inadequate provision of teachers for the new subjects (weighted mean = 1.69), there was no significant effect of provision of instructional resources on the implementation of the SS curriculum (F = 3.64, df = 22/1077), there was no significant effect of curriculum implementers involvement in curriculum planning and the implementation of the SS curriculum (F=2.96; df = 2/1077). It was recommended among others that as a matter of policy, provision should be made for the training of teachers in the new subjects as well as the provision of functional facilities to aid effective teaching and learning of the trade subjects so as to promote entrepreneurship education.

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