PRACTICES REQUIRED BY AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION LECTURERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND UTILIZATION OF POWERPOINT FOR QUALITY INSTRUCTION IN SOUTH-EAST NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES.

Abstract

This study identified practices required by Agricultural Education lecturers in the development and utilization of PowerPoint for quality instruction in South-East Nigerian universities. Two specific objectives were posed to guide the study with corresponding research questions and hypotheses. A survey research design was suitably adopted for the study. The target population for the study was 56 lecturers of Agricultural Education in 6 public universities offering Agricultural education in South-East Nigeria. Census was used for the study. A researcher-developed structured questionnaire validated by 3 experts was used as an instrument for data collection. The reliability of the instrument was determined at an index of .86 using Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient test. Data collected for the study were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as Mean to answer research questions and standard deviation to show degree of responses. Independent Sample t-test was used to test the 2 stated hypotheses at .05-level of significance. The study found that lecturers of Agricultural Education require 17-practices in the development of PowerPoint and 10-practices in the utilization of PowerPoint for quality instruction South-East Nigerian universities. Therefore, the study concluded that there are 17-practices on PowerPoint development and 10-practices on PowerPoint utilization for quality instruction in South-East Nigerian universities. It was recommended by the study that Agricultural education lecturers should adopt these practices identified by the study for quality instruction in South-East
Nigerian universities.