Teachers’ Characteristics and Quality Delivery for Rebuilding Trust in Nomadic Education Programme in Plateau State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the relationship between teachers’ characteristics and quality delivery for rebuilding trust in nomadic education programme in plateau state, Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study was 1000 respondents which comprised of the head teachers, teachers, parent teachers association executives and prefects in all the 85 nomadic primary schools in the state. A representative sample of 450 respondents were selected for the study using purposive sampling techniques. Two research questions and one hypothesis was generated to guide the study. A self-designed instrument tagged Teachers’ characteristics and quality delivery for rebuilding trust questionnaire (TCQDRQ) was used for the data collection. The instrument was validated by the three experts in educational management and research test and measurement. The reliability index of 0.72 was tested using Cronbach Alpha reliability method. Descriptive statistics like mean and standard deviation was used to answer all the research questions while inferential statistics of Pearson product moment correlation statistics was used to test all the hypotheses at 0.05 significance . The findings however revealed that teachers’ characteristics like qualifications, experiences, interpersonal relations and methodical have significant relationship with quality delivery indicators for Nomadic education programme in plateau state, Nigeria which aid rebuilding trust in the programme in the state. It was recommended among others that the training and retraining of the Nomadic Education should be the responsibility of the entire specialist.