Perceptive views of lecturers on team teaching for effective instructional delivery in office technology and management programmes in polytechnics in Delta State, Nigeria

Author: 
Ikelegbe, Samuel

The study was designed to identify the perceptive views of lecturers on team teaching for effective instructional delivery in Office Technology and Management (OTM) programmes. The forty (40) lecturers in OTM programmes in the three Polytechnics in Delta State formed the population for the study. The study was a survey research design. Two questions which were validated by three experts were used for the study. The questionnaires were subjected to reliability test using Cronbach Alpha formula which yielded 0.87 and 0.79 respectively. The questionnaires were analyzed using mean and standard deviation while the hypotheses for the study were analyzed using t-test statistics. The study found that lecturers perceive team teaching as a means of enhancing effective teaching and as a collaborative problem solving technique. It was recommended among others that, institutions of higher learning should embrace team teaching as it reduces the workload of lecturers, and also help in mentoring newly employed and facilitate professional development.

Paper No: 
2928