This chapter contains the detailed
description of the research procedure. It includes:
a. Population of the designed
b. Population of study
c. Sample and sampling technique
d. Instrument of date reliability
e. Validation and reliability
f. Precede for data collection
g. Method of date collection
3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN
The
research used survey design in which he made use of sample survey technique to
elicit information from a sample of the population.
3.2 POPULATION OF THE STUDY
The
population comprises of the primary schools in Ebyia Development Centre of
Ebonyi State. There are seventy-one (71) primary school in Ebyia Development
Centre with the total number of eight hundred and nineteen teachers and
seventy-one school heads.
3.3 SAMPLE AND SAMPLING TECHNIQUE
The sample
for the study was randomly selected from the seventy-one primary schools in
Ebia Local Government Are
The
researcher sampled two hundred (200) respondents.
Ten (10)
schools were used out of the seventy-one primary schools existing.
In each of
the sampled schools, twenty teachers were selected, making the total of two
hundred respondents.
3.4 INSTRUMENT OF DATA COLLECTION
Questionnaire, interview, observation and oral discussion were
instruments used for collection of data.
The questionnaire was a structured one designed in
such a way that they helped in eliciting information from the respondents. The
questionnaire was administered to the teachers in the selected schools.
The
interview questions used by the researcher were non-structured type; though it
provided the needed information.
3.5 VALIDATIONS AND RELIABILITY
The
instrument- questionnaire used by the researcher in the study was presented to
the able supervisor for necessary corrections and approval before it was
administered to the respondents.
3.6 PROCEDURE FOR DATA COLLECTION
The
researcher obtained the data with the aid of specialized experienced research
assistant. The questionnaire was administered and collected to the researcher
by the school authority.
The
questionnaire was collected at a spot after permission was granted to the
researcher by the school authority.
The
questionnaire was collected at a to avoid loss of some of the data.
Equally
respondents were given orientation on how to fill the questionnaire.
3.7 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION
The data
collected were analyzed using tables and simple percentage. In the analysis,
various question were managed in such as way a to look for specific formation
and thus the analysis was made in that order.
Also the researcher employed descriptive method in
analyzed the data collected in his research.