Effect of instructional resources on children’s number work performance in pre schools in Isibania zone,Migori County
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Date
2013-07Author
Omayio, Josephine K
Type
ThesisLanguage
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Use of instructional resources has found little, if any acceptance in most of our
EeDE centers. Observation reveals that most preschool teachers don't use
instructional resources when teaching number work. Most parent and EeDE
managers appear to pressurize the preschool teachers to undertake academic work as
opposed to allowing children to learn naturaily through interaction with instructional
resources. The purpose of this study therefore was to investigate the effect of
instructional resources on child.ren's number ..v..ork performance with special
reference to the types of instructional resources used, teachers' academic
qualification and use of instructional resources, organization of instructional
resources In classroom and adequacy of instructional resources. The study used
descriptive survey design. The target population comprised ECDE children and
preschool teachers in Isebania Zone Migori County. There were 35 pre-school,11
pre-schools were selected for the study through stratified random sampling. Through
use of simple random sampling 5 pre-school were selected from public and 6from
private pre-schoo1.225 children were selected from possible population of 750 preschools
using simple random sampling. Questionnaires were used to collect data
from ECDE teachers while observation checklist was used to asses the presence of
instructional resources used during number work lesson. Observation schedule was
also used to investigate the organization of instructional resources in classroom and
their effective use in learning number work. Own made number work test was
administered to children to determine performance. The data collected was analyzed
using descriptive statistics.
The data was analyzed using statistics and qualitative techniques and presented in
of visual and audio visual resources WRS minimal when teaching number work. Also
use of instructional resources ill public schools was minimal compared to private
pre-schools. The study recommended that the government should train and employ
preschool teachers. The study also suggested for a further research to be carried out
on the effect of government budget allocation on EeDE centres
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Degree of Master of Education in Early Childhood EducationPublisher
Department of Educational Comrnunication and Technology
Description
A Research submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the
Award of the Degree of Master of Education in Early Childhood Education to
the Department of Educational Comrnunication and Technology, University of
Nairobi.
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