Assessment of Resources Utilization for the Delivery of Adult Education Programme during Covid-19 in University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

Abstract

Quality education is a function of the provision of resources, their maximum utilisation and management. The objectives of this study, among others, are to find out the availability and utilisation of resources for the delivery of adult education programmes during Covid-19 at the University of Ilorin. The total population of the study comprised 600 adult education students and 8 lecturers in the Department of Adult and Primary Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara state. A simple random sampling technique was adopted to select 340 from the total population of 600 adult education students and 8 Adult Education lecturers also participated in the study. Two instruments were for the study titled Assessment of Resource Availability and Utilization in the Delivery of Adult Education Programme Questionnaire (ARAUDAEPQ r= 0.78) and Assessment of Resource Availability and Utilization in the Delivery of Adult Education Programme by Lecturers’ questionnaire (ARAUDAEPLQ r = 0.75). The checklist and questionnaires were validated by experts in the field of Measurement and Evaluation. Descriptive statistics of mean was used to answer the research question while hypotheses were tested with independent t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) at 0.05 alpha level. The results showed that there was no statistically significant difference in the availability of resources in the delivery of adult education programmes during Covid-19 as assessed by lecturers and students of University of Ilorin (t_{348} = 1.291, p>0.05). There was a statistically significant difference in the utilisation of resources in the delivery of Adult Education programmes as assessed by lecturers and students of the University of Ilorin (t_{348} = 2.471, p<0.05); there was a statistically significant difference in the lecturers’ utilisation of resources in the delivery of adult education during Covid-19 based on gender (t_{8} = 0.783, p>0.05); and there was no statistically significant difference in the lecturers’ utilisation of resources during Covid-19 in the delivery of adult education based on lecturing status (F _{{3, 6}} = 0.449, p>0.05). Thus, it was recommended that school management should be ready to cooperate with Adult Education lecturers in the provision and improvisation of visual instructional materials for better delivery of adult education programmes and instructional delivery at the University of Ilorin.