Evaluating the Performance of Student-Teachers' Pedagogical Skills Prior to Teaching Practice Using Multimedia Microteaching Laboratory in Colleges of Education Yobe State, Nigeria

Abstract

Pedagogical skills are basic tools teachers should possess for effectiveness in their service. Therefore, teaching the student teachers those skills is not an easy task; hence the need for multimedia microteaching laboratory which aids pre-service teachers to acquire them under controlled laboratory setting. The research designs adopted for study was quasi experimental research design using pretest and post-test. The study was be guided by three research objectives, three research questions and three null hypotheses and was tested at (0.05) level of significance. The population of the study was 4,334 NCE II Students of Umar Suleiman college of Education Gashua, Federal College of Education (Technical) Potiskum and College of Arabic and Islamic Studies Potiskum. A purposive random sampling technique was used to determine the sample from population, in the ratio of 30:30student teachers drawn from both male and female student. The instrument used for data collection was microteaching skills rating scale (MSRS) developed by the researchers. Data collected was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, at (0.05) level of significance. The result revealed that; Multimedia Microteaching Laboratory approach improved pre-service teachers' pedagogical skills prior to teaching practice. Multimedia Microteaching Laboratory was presumed to be better approach in improving males' students' pedagogical skills prior to teaching practice than their female counterpart. This shows that the increase in the pedagogical skills of the Federal College Education pre-service teachers was significantly higher than the increase in the pedagogical skills of State-owned College per-service teachers.