PRESCHOOL TEACHERS ATTITUDE TOWARDS SLOW LEARNERS IN POST COVID-19 ERA IN ILORIN EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KWARA STATE, NIGERIA
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2022
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Ife Journal of Theory and Research in Education
Abstract
The study examined preschool teachers' attitude towards slow learners in post COVID-19 era. The research design adopted was descriptive survey design. One research question and two hypotheses were raised and formulated for the study respectively. The population of this study comprised all private and public primary school's teachers in Ilorin East Local Government Area of Kwara State. One hundred and seventy preschool teachers were randomly selected as sampled size. The questionnaire titled 'Preschool Teachers Attitude towards Slow Learners in Post COVID-19 Era Questionnaire' (PTATSLPCQ).
PTATSLPCQ was given face and content validity by the experts in the field of early childhood and primary education and special education, Kwara State University Malete. The instrument was administered and re-administered within the interval of two weeks to the same set of respondents outside the study sampled. Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) was used to determine the reliability co-efficiency which was (r=.79). The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics for the research question while research hypotheses were tested using inferential statistics of t-test at 0.05 level of significance .The results showed that the preschool teachers' had negative attitude towards slow learners in Ilorin East local Government Area of Kwara State. Conclusion made based on the finding, it can be concluded that preschool teachers' had negative attitude towards slow learners in Ilorin East local Government Area of Kwara state.