Perception of Science Education Lecturers on Students’ Teaching Practice Readiness and Delivery in four Universities of old Sokoto State, Nigeria

This research work surveyed the perception of Science Education Lecturers on Students’ Teaching Practice Readines and Teaching Practice Delivery of the Department of Science and Vocational Education Faculty of Education and Extension Services Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, University of Science and Technology Aliero, Department of Science Education Faculty of Education Sokoto State University and Department of Science Education Federal University Gusau. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. Likert scale questionnaire was used to collect data from 54 Science Education Lecturers purposively sampled out of the total population of 56 Science Education Lecturers of the various Departments. The instrument was validated by experts and a reliability index of 0.83 was established. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer research questions while analysis of variance (ANOVA) statistics was used to test research hypotheses. From the result of the analysis, it can be foundthat student teachers were generally perceived to demonstrate readiness and effective content delivery in their teaching practice exercise. Although these behaviors seem to be idiosyncratic to each student, they tend to be perceived differently by lecturers in different universities, with the exception of readiness. However, overwhelming evidence in the literature suggests that student-teachers are not adequately trained to teach, and hence demonstrate fair performance during their teaching practice exercise. Strict, frequent supervision and monitoring are recommended for teacher training institutions to enhance the quality of teaching practice exercise.