THE EFFECT OF TEAM-TEACHING IN THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF BASIC TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OMOKU, RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA.

By
DIBIA FELIX ONYELABUCHUKWU

Abstract
This study examined the effect of team teaching in the academic performances of studentsin
Basic Technology in Junior Secondary Schools in Omoku, Rivers State; four junior
government secondary schools in Omoku which include Sancta Maria High School, Model
Boys Secondary School, Community Girls Secondary School and Community Secondary
School all inOmoku were selected for this study. The Mean method was used as the research
instrument whichwas distributed to sections (a) and (b) which includes (a) the students and (b)
Teachers. The researcher developed twenty structured items, ten for the Teachers’ questionnaire
and ten for the students’ questionnaire. The questionnaire items were formulated using likert
four-point structured rating scale. The result of this study showed that there is a significant
difference between the performance of students taught using team teaching and those taught
in a conventionalsingle-teacher classroom.
Keywords: Team-Teaching, Academic Performance, Basic Technology, Junior Secondary
Schools.
Introduction
Education for work had its beginning many years ago. There are varioustrades where the
parent would educate children to continue in the family trade thereby continuing age long
practice of family business. For instance, the son of a carpenter would be educated in the trade of
carpentry by the father, in the same way the child of a fisherman will be trained to be a fisherman
and so on.This act wasin its primitive way the beginning of vocational education.
Vocational education formally prepares individuals for the world of work. In the light of the
above, vocational education is offered at the different levels of the educational sectors ranging
from the post primary levels, secondary schools levels, and the tertiary levels respectively.
According to Udo (2004), Vocational Education is designed, to develop skill,
ability, understanding, attitudes, work habits and appreciation that confer knowledge needed to
enter and make progress in employment on useful and productive bases. Pre-vocational subjects
offered include, Basic Technology, Business studies, Agricultural science etc. According to the
Federal Government of Nigeria (2004), Basic Technology taught as pre-vocational subject to
every students is designed as an integrated subject to introduce students to the rudiment of
vocational subject. According to Bamiro, Elewa, and Anyabolu, (2002), Basic Technology was
introduced to provide:…

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