ASSESSMENT OF EFFECTIVENESS OF EDUCATIONAL RADIO BROADCASTING FOR ADULT LITERACY IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

Education has been identified as one of the most important ways to achieve national development. With three million non-literate adults in Lagos State, radio becomes a veritable medium to teach such adults who, as a result of their economic activities, may not have the opportunity of formal schooling. The study assessed the effectiveness of educational radio broadcasting for adult literacy in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study adopted survey design. The population of the study comprised 604 non-literate adult participants in Lagos is Learning project. Total enumeration was used to include all the 604 adult learners for the study. Two executive personnel of the project were purposively selected for interview and three learning centers were purposively selected for observation exercise. Validated questionnaire, interview guide and the Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) standardized observation form were used to collect data for the study. Cronbach's Alpha coefficients for the constr...