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2. METHOD
2.1. Design of the study
This study is an instrumentation study. An instrumentation research is the type of research that focuses on introduction of new or modified content, procedure, technologies or instruments of educational practice (Ogomaka, 1984; Ogunniyi, 2004).
2.2. Population of the study
The population for the study consisted of all the secondary school students in Kwali and Gwagwalada Area Council of FCT Abuja. The population of the study were made of up 10,488 (6667 males, 3821 females) students (Table 1). These statistics of students’ numbers in secondary schools in the two area councils were taken from the State of Education in F.C.T. for 2003. The average teacher-student ratio for the Kwali School is about 1 teacher to 33 students while the average teacher-student ratio for the Gwagwalada School is about 1teacher to 60 students.
Table 1: Population of Students by Gender per Area Council
Area Council No. of Schools Male Female Total
Gwagwalada 5 4,087 2,811 6,898
Kwali 4 2,580 1,010 3,590
2.3. Sampling and Sampling Procedure
A total of one thousand and forty secondary school students were used for the study. In each of the two Area Councils, two secondary schools were drawn for the study through a non-proportionate stratified random sampling to make a total of four schools. In each of the four schools 260 SSII and 260
SS III students were randomly selected, to make a total 1,040 students.
2.4. Construction of the Students’ Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness Scale in Mathematics
(SETES-M)
The construction of this scale was based on the theoretical formulation on teaching effectiveness. The component parts are the teaching skills, personality attributes, teaching principles, knowledge of learners, interpersonal relations, mastery of content and impact on learning. The researcher adopted both the rational and the empirical approaches in writing the items of the SETES-M for this study. A pool
of relevant items on students’ evaluation of teaching effectiveness was written out. This was achieved partially by requesting sixty senior secondary school students randomly selected outside the sample study to write down their experiences, reactions or feelings they notice about their mathematics teachers in relation to the aforementioned components of teaching effectiveness. From the students’ pool of items, an initial teaching effectiveness related statements were selected, restructured, organized and incorporated with the pool of items derived from literature on teaching effectiveness. A pool of 100 items represented the first draft of the SETES-M.
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