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ABSTRACT
The study sought to examine the influence of instructional media selection and utilization on teachers’ performance based on years of teaching experiences in secondary schools in Uyo Senatorial District. Two objectives and hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted a survey-research-design. The population of the study included all the male and female teachers and students in 96 secondary schools in the 6 local Education Committees (LEC) of Uyo Senatorial district of Akwa Ibom state. The researcher developed an instrument tagged “Media Utilization Questionnaire (IMUQ) and Questionnaire on Students’ Perception of Teachers’ Performance (QSPTP)” for data collection. To ensure that the instrument is reliable, split-half reliability estimate using 0.86 and 0.73 reliability coefficient was run on the questionnaire. The hypotheses were analysed using T-test and F-test analysis respectively. From the result of the findings, it was observed that there is significant influence of teachers’ knowledge of selection of instructional media on teachers’ performance. The result further showed that there is significant effect of instructional media utilization on teachers’ performance based on short, average and long years of teaching experiences. One of the recommendations was that Secondary school teachers should be adequately motivated to develop and use instructional media during lessons and care should be taken in selection and utilization of a given instructional media to guarantee objective realization.
KEYWORDS: Teachers’ knowledge, instructional media, utilization, teachers’ performance, teaching experiences, secondary schools.