Assessment of the Appropriateness of Teaching Methods Used in Adult Literacy Centers in Kontagora Local Government, Niger State

Abstract

The study examined the appropriateness of methods of teaching in Adult literacy centres in Kontagora Local Government Area, Niger State. The study was guided by two specific objectives with corresponding research questions and hypotheses. The study adopted survey research design. The entire 30 facilitators and 10 supervisors in the Adult Literacy centre were used for the study. The instrument for data collection was a validated structured questionnaire with Cronbach Alpha Coefficient and a reliability coefficient of 0.82. The researchers aided by three research assistants collected the data using direct approach. The data collected were analyzed with the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS), version 26. Mean scores and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions. The study indicated that alphabetic, synthetic, analytic, syllabic and eclectic were the most appropriate methods for teaching in Adult literacy centres. It was concluded that the use of these approaches will help to enhancing teaching and learning in the Adult literacy centres Kontagora Local Government Area, Niger State. The recommended among others that there is the need to expose adult literacy facilitators to periodic seminars, conferences and workshop in order to be abreast to the current ideas, innovations and techniques to be employed during teaching for better results and there is also the need to motivate facilitators of adult literacy programmes in order to boost their efficiency.