Influence of Capacity Building on Effectiveness of Teaching-Learning Process among Public Senior Secondary School Teachers in Adamawa State, Nigeria

The study examined the Influence of Capacity Building on Effectiveness in Teaching-Learning Process Among Public Secondary School Teachers in Adamawa State, Nigeria. The study had 2 specific objectives research questions and null hypotheses. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study is 7161 senior secondary school teachers during 2023/2024 session. The sample size was 716 teachers. A self-developed structured questionnaire titled “Capacity Building and Teachers’ Effectiveness (CBTE) was used as instrument for the study. The questionnaire was validated by experts in the Department of Educational Foundations and Curriculum and experts from the Measurement and Evaluation Section, Faculty of Education, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The reliability index was 0.79 and the data collected were analyzed using frequency, percentages, and mean scores to answer research questions. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test all the null hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. The results revealed that among others that capacity building influences teachers’ ability to use instructional materials as effective teaching tools through training, on the use of computers, posters, projectors, audio-visual materials, use of chalkboards and printed materials in public senior secondary schools in Adamawa State, Nigeria (p-value=.143). The study concluded that capacity building has the ability to influence teachers’ effectiveness in teaching-learning process through the ability to use instructional materials, teachers’ method of teaching and teachers’ ability to reinforce learners as effective teaching tools in public senior secondary schools in Adamawa State, Nigeria. It was recommended that Adamawa state Government should brace up teachers’ capacity building on use of instructional materials for effective teaching and learning in public senior secondary schools in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Adamawa State Ministry of Education should collaborate with Secondary school authorities at intervals to organize teachers’ capacity-building trainings on current teaching instructional techniques for effective teaching and learning in public senior secondary schools in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Keyword: Capacity Building, Teaching-Learning Process, Secondary School Teachers