EVALUATION OF NCE BACKGROUND ON TEACHING PRACTICE PERFORMANCE OF ECONOMICS EDUCATION STUDENTS OF USMAN DANFODIYO UNIVERSITY, SOKOTO, FEDERAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, ZARIA CAMPUS

Abstract

This paper discusses the relevance of NCE background on teaching practice performance of Economics
Education students. As houseman ship is to a medical doctor, so is teaching practice is to a professional
teacher. Thus, one can only be qualified as a teacher after the completion of teaching practice. The
problem arises whether the Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) graduate should be subjected to
another teaching practice as they go for further teacher education programme in the university. In
tackling this problem, 20 questionnaire item were constructed and administered to 2021/2022 300Level
Economics students of the Faculty of Education, Usman Danfodiyo University, Federal College of
Education, Zaria Campus. In addition, the teaching practice scores from those with NCE and without
NCE background were collected and analysed. With analysis of variance, the two null hypotheses were
tested at the significant level of 0.05. The study revealed among others that those with NCE background
were not performing better than those without such background. It was concluded among other things
that such finding may be as a result of over-confident on the part of those with NCE background. Finally,
it was recommended among other things that the teaching practice should be made to form part of every
student’s Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) on graduation to enforce discipline and seriousness
among students.