Parameters for History Teachers’ Preference for interactive Radio and Television Instructional Programmes for Distance Learners in North-Central, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated the influence/effect of history teachers qualification and experience on the performance for interactive radio and television instructional programme for distance learning. With two research questions, the study adopted a survey research design while the population comprised all history teachers in Lapai local government senior secondary schools with 200 randomly sampled. Two hypotheses are formulated to guide the study. A60-item adopted structured questionnaire validated by experts and with high reliability coefficient of 0.77 was used for data collection. The structuring data was analyzed with t-test statistics. The result shows that both teachers’ qualification and teachers experience had significant influence on their preference of radio and television instructional programme for distance learning. Based on the findings, it was partly recommended that NOUN should frequently organize training courses for teachers on the use of the new interactive radio and television instructionaL programme, internet and other web-based interactive instructional programmes.