Teachers' Perception of Influence of Environmental Factors on the Implementation of Universal Basic Education (UBE) Programme in North Central Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated teaches' perception of environmental factors on the implementation of Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme in North Central Nigeria. Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. The total population of the study was124,363 teaches' and head teachers from 13,349 public primary schools in the study area. A sample size of 399 teachers and head teachers was selected using Taro Yamene's formula for determining sample size .

A 21 item questionnaire titled Teachers perception of Environmental Factors on the Implementation of Universal Basic Education program (TPEFIUBE) in North Central Nigeria was used to collect data from respondents in the study area. Means and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, while chi-square was employed to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.

The study reviewed that teachers perceived funding, supervision of instructions and teacher motivation to have positive significance on implementation of UBE programme in North Central Nigeria. Based on these findings, the following recommendations were made among others, the Federal Government in particular and other education authorities should constantly organize workshops, seminars and in-service training programmes for teachers, head teachers, supervisors and monitoring officers to serve as incentives to boast their morale.