Availability and adequacy of educational technology facilities for effective micro teaching practicum in teacher training institutions in Enugu State Nigeria

The study was undertaken to ascertain the status of availability and adequacy of educational technology facilities in teacher training institutions in Enugu State, Nigeria. The study adopted a quantitative approach and specifically used descriptive survey research design. The population for the study consisted of all the 1, 850 teaching staff in the two government owned teacher training institutions in Enugu State, Nigeria. 140 teaching staff that is 70 from each of the two institutions were randomly drawn and used as the study sample. Data for the study were collected using an 18-item Availability Checklist and a 36-item questionnaire titled: Questionnaire on Adequacy of Educational Technology Facilities for Micro Teaching Practicum (QOAETF-MTP) The two instruments were developed by the researcher and were validated by three experts. The collected data were analyzed using frequency count, percentage and mean. The findings of the study revealed that: most of the required educational technology facilities were not available and also were not adequately provided in teacher training institutions in Enugu State, Nigeria. Certain factors were revealed to be constraints to the adequate provision of these facilities among which are: poor funding of he education sector, corruption and poor maintenance culture among others.. Recommendations were made based on the findings of the study among which is that education should be appropriately funded and required infrastructure provided in institutions at various levels of education.