Speaker
Description
Saad, M.
College of Education, Zing, Taraba State, Nigeria
msluggere@gmail.com
Track: Digital Pedagogy and Teaching Innovation
ASSESSMENT OF TEACHERS’ COMPETENCIES IN DIGITAL PEDAGOGIES AND TEACHING INNOVATION IN TARABA STATE NIGERIA.
BY
MUSA SA’AD
Department of Educational Psychology,
Guidance and Counselling,
College of Education, Zing, Taraba State, Nigeria
saadmusa@coezing.edu.ng
08034446388
Abstract
The study investigated level of competences of teachers’ in digital pedagogies and teaching innovation in Taraba state Nigeria, It was guided by three hypothesis, the descriptive and interferential survey design was adopted for the study using non-participant obtrusive observation techniques. All the 2, 899 teachers in higher Institutions in Taraba State constituted the population of the study, multistage sampling techniques which includes proportionate and simple random techniques was used to select 375 both male and female teachers in higher institutions as the sample for the study. An instrument developed by the researcher “Assessment of Teachers’ Competences, Rating scale in digital pedagogy and teaching innovation” (ATCRSDPTI) with scorer or rater reliability estimate of 0.99 using Kendall’s coefficient of concordance was used to collect data. The instrument was validated by experts in measurement and evaluation. Z–test statistics was used to test the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. Findings among others revealed that the level of teachers’ competence in advancing learner centered pedagogies through digital innovation in presenting their units of instruction is significantly below the average. Training and re-training for all teachers for the digital pedagogy and teaching innovation were among the recommendations made based on the finding of the study.
Keywords: Assessment, Teacher’s competence, Pedagogy, Digital, innovation.