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    ASSESSMENT OF THE CHALLENGES INHIBITING TEACHING WITH MODERN TECHNOLOGIES FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE OF TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN FCT, ABUJA.
    (Department of Education Management, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2020-12-01) Adeola, Omolara Adesina; Sani, Yakubu; Chuks, Peter Emakpor
    The ineffectiveness of many teachers to redder quality services and deliver instructions in the classroom prompted the present study. It has been observed from literature that many challenges inhibit teachers' efficiency in promoting quality teaching and learning delivery in secondcuy schools, including those in the Federal Capital Territory> (FCT), Abuja. Notably, if opportunities were provided where teachers can effectively tetich with modern technologies to support teaching in the classrooms, quality services and teaching delivery will be promoted and guaranteed. Consequently, the present study assessed the challenges inhibiting teaching with modern technologies for quality assurance of teachers in secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, s~ Nigeria. Some challenges examined inclvkled teachers' inaccessibility of technological resources, attitude and inadequacy of teachers' continuous training and retraining. Adopting the descriptive survey research design, three research questions guided the study. Total population comprised 3,339 secondary school teachers in 62 public secondary’ schools from, the 6 LG As in the FCT, Abuja. The sample size was 334* teachers (10% of the teachers' population and 50% of the public secondary schools) within the 6 LGAs in the FCT, using the proportionate stratified random sampling technique. A 24-item questionnaire personally developed by the researcher, was the main instrument for data collection. It was structured on a 4-point scale of Strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A), Disagree (D) and Strongly Disagree (SD). The questionnaire was validated by three experts from the Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Education, Nasarawa State University, Keffi. A pilot test was onducted in order to establish reliability of the instrument, using Cronbach Alpha statistics which yielded an overall internal consistency reliability value of 0.83, showing that the instrument was reliable. Data were analyzed using only mean scores wted at 2.50. Findings of the study revealed among others that the challenges investigated inhibited teaching with modern technologies for quality assurance of teachers' in secondaiy schools in the FCT. It was however found out that teachers' inaccessibility of technological resources, teachers' attitude towards the use of technological resources and inadequacy of teachers' continuous training and retraining inhibited their teaching with modern technologies for quality assurance of teachers in secondaiy schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Nigeria. Based on the findings of this study, recommendations were proffered and among them include that the Minister of FCT in collaboration with the Sgcondaiy Education Board should make provisions for teachers' accessibility of the modern technologies in order to support their teachings for their quality assurance through adequate financial allocation and funding of secondary schools for the provision the necessary modern technologies like the computers, projectors, softwares, among others, for teaching and learning in tjje schools.