School Library Support and Inquiry Based Approach as Determinants of Science Subject Content Delivery in Private Schools, Ekiti State, Nigeria
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2022-12
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Lead City University
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To investigate school library support and inquiry based approach as determinants of science subject content delivery in private schools in Ekiti State, Nigeria is the purpose of this study. The importance of this study is centred on significance attached to science being an apparatus adopted for actualising national growth in Nigeria. This study addressed the following research questions: What is the level of science subject content delivery in private schools in Ekiti State? What is the level of school library support available to science teachers in private schools in Ekiti State? What are the inquiry based teaching methods adopted by private school teachers in Ekiti State? This study was underpinning with the theory of constructivist theories, while the study’s population comprised science teachers in private schools in Ekiti State. The study employed both stratified and purposive samplings. The sample size for the study was 72. Questionnaires was the instruments of data collection. Response rates of 88.9% was obtained. The version 24 of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analysed the questionnaire to generate descriptive statistics for the research questions and inferential statistics for the hypotheses. The findings revealed that inquiry based approach has a significant influence on content delivery of science subjects in private schools in Ekiti State, Nigeria (R = 0.858, p<0.05), and that the higher the level of inquiry based approach adopted, the more effective the content delivery for science subjects. Similarly, the test of hypothesis revealed that school library support has a significant influence on content delivery of science subjects in private schools in the state. Far reaching recommendations that could position school libraries for effective service delivery were offered by the study.
Keywords: Constructivism, Inquiry-based Approach, Science Teachers, School libraries, Science Subjects, Secondary Schools, Ekiti State, Nigeria
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Kate Turabian