ASSESSMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN MKPAT ENIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF AKWA IBOM STATE, NIGERIA

ALPHONSUS PATRICK UDOH; FAITH EJIROGHENE UDOH

doi:10.22159/ijss.2024v12i4.50483

Authors

ALPHONSUS PATRICK UDOH Department of Science Education, Faculty of Education, Akwa Ibom State University, IKOT Akpaden, Nigeria.
FAITH EJIROGHENE UDOH Department of Educational Psychology, Guidance and Counselling, Faculty of Education, University of Port-Harcourt, Choba, Rivers State - Nigeria.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22159/ijss.2024v12i4.50483

Keywords:

Teaching, Learning, Environment

Abstract

This paper defines teaching and learning environments to be diverse physical locations, contexts, and cultures in which students learn. The paper also describes Secondary education as that education that follows immediately after primary education and is also referred to as post primary education. The purpose of the study is to assess teaching and learning environment among secondary schools in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State specifically the extent to which ICT has been integrated for teaching and learning environment among secondary schools in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area Descriptive research design was used in the study. The population comprises 14 secondary schools in the study area with all the teachers and principals as sample. The instrument used for the collection of data was tagged Teaching and Learning Environment (TALEO) questionnaire. The modify Likert type rating scale of strongly Agree (4) Agree (3) Disagree (2) Strongly Disagree (1) was apply. Findings among other were that teaching and learning environment among secondary schools in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area are not conducive. The paper concluded that school administrators with the stakeholders should create a conducive environment for teaching and learning in the schools in order to enhance better teaching-learning activities.

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