IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

IIARD International Journal of Economics and Business Management (IJEBM )

E-ISSN 2489-0065
P-ISSN 2695-186X
VOL. 11 NO. 4 2025
DOI: 10.56201/ijebm.vol.11.no4.2025.pg63.69

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Teaching Materials of UBE Programme and Educational Development of the Girl-Child in Bayelsa State

Dr Diepreye Okodoko, Silon Ebiye Franca

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Abstract

Examining the educational growth of girls in Bayelsa State and the teaching materials of the UBE program was the purpose of the research. The study made use of a correlational survey design for its investigation. Four thousand four hundred forty-five female students from the Ogbia, Sagbama, and Southern Ijaw school zones in Bayelsa participated in the research. The research used a proportional stratified random sampling approach to pick 556 female students, who made up 13% of the overall population. A survey known as the Teaching Materials of UBE Programme and Educational Development of the Girl-Child Questionnaire (TMUBEPEDGQ) was administer to gather information. Researchers from Niger Delta University's educational foundations department and two specialists in assessment and evaluation from Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, checked the instrument's validity. Utilising Cronbach's Alpha approach of reliability coefficient analysis, the values of the instrument's internal consistencies' reliability coefficients were calculated. For educational resources and for the advancement of girls' education, the corresponding dependability coefficient values were.802 and.811, respectively. The data were analyzed with the used of model summary of simple regression analysis and PPMC analysis for the research question and hypothesis respectively with the support of the SPSS version 26. The study concludes that teaching materials of UBE programme have significant relationship with educational development of girl-child in schools. The study equally recommended that government should provide relevant and necessary teaching materials to the schools, because of its potential to enhance educational development of the girl-child in society.

keywords:

UBE Programme, Special Policies, Infrastructural Facilities, Educational

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