GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

Performance in teaching practice could predict future success as a teacher. Therefore, the need to adopt appropriate skills in media selection and utilization is germane. The study ascertained the most preferred instructional media used by student-teachers. It also ascertained whether the utilization of instructional media among student-teachers was significantly high. One research question guided the study and one hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population comprised all the 1200 student-teachers for the 2015/2016 session in College of Education, Afaha Nsit. The sample which was selected through the multistage sampling technique comprised 354 of them. The “Instructional Media Preference Scale” (IMPS) was used to gather data for the study. Descriptive statistics indicated that the chalkboard/white-board was the most preferred instructional media while computer-related media ranked 6th among nine media. The least in the order of magnitude were projected media. Contigent chi-square indicated that that there is significant difference in the use of various instructional media by student-teachers (x2 = 1295.25; df = 24, crit. x2 = 36.42). The implication of the findings is that service delivery would be greatly reduced due to low use of computer-related media. One of the recommendations was that lecturers in Educational Technology and those who teach the teaching methods in different subject areas should emphasized the use of ICT-related media in teaching and learning due to the rewards derivable through their use. Practical ICT use and integration should form an integral part of the courses taught.