Analysis of Questioning Pattern and Validity of Secondary School Geography Teachers in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State

Abstract

The purpose of the paper was to analyse the evaluation questions of geography teachers as contained in their lesson plans. in terms of how well they cover the objectives of the lesson and the types and forms of the question with respect to Blooms (/964) and Franenkel (/973) classifications. The simple random sampling was employed to select the lesson plans of twenty-one geography teachers of the study area from a sample frame of thirty-eight teachers. which served as the sole instrument used for data collection for the study. The statistical techniques of proportion. chi-square and Pearson product moment correlation coefficient were used for the analysis of the data. The result of the analysis revealed that while a large number of the teachers asked appropriate and adequate questions. majority of them could not ask diverse questions. Moreso, those who asked appropriate questions. such questions were not necessarily adequate. Thus. no significant relationship existed between the appropriateness and adequacy of the evaluation questions of the teachers. Most of them were able to ask both low and high level questions with a slight difference between qualification groups. Appropriate recommendations were therefore made based on these findings.