AN ASSESSMENT OF AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION OF PRESCHOOL RECORDS IN ILORIN WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KWARA STATE
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Date
2023-11-01
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Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education
Abstract
The study examined an assessment of availability and utilization of
Preschool Records. Therefore, descriptive survey design type was adopted, the
population comprised private and public primary schools and pupils. Simple
random sampling technique was used to select twenty (22) public Primary
schools out of sixty-one (61) and ninety-eight (98) private primary schools
out of two hundred and sixty-six (266) in which one hundred and twenty
120 Schools were randomly selected. 120 schools were randomly selected
as sample size. The instrument was tittle, Assessment of Utilization of
Preschool Records observation (AUPRO) and availability of preschool
records observation checklist (APROC). Face and content and validity
were done by experts. Pearson Product Moment Correlation of Co efficiency (PPMC) was used to determine the reliability index which was
(r=.79) The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics of
frequency counts, percentage, and mean research question while
inferential statistics of t-test was used to test the hypotheses. The findings
shown that records are available in and the extent of utilization of
preschool records and it can be concluded that preschool records are
available and result also revealed the extent of utilization of preschool
records in Ilorin West LGA of Kwara State was high, recommended made,
seminars on the maintenance of school records should be intensified by
both state and federal Governments.