Research Article

EFFECTS OF PROJECT AND DEMONSTRATION TEACHING APPROACHES ON STUDENTS’ AGRICULTURAL SKILLS ACQUISITION IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION, PLATEAU, NIGERIA

Grace N. ALKALI1*, Pangkhinah Wuyep BAKO2
1 Agricultural Science Department, Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya
2 Directorate of Research, Planning and Documentation, Plateau State
* Corresponding author: gracealkalicoe@gmail.com
Published: Oct, 2025
Pages: 107-116
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Abstract

This research was carried out to determine the effects of demonstration and project teaching approaches on theacquisition of agricultural skills among students in colleges of education in Plateau State, Nigeria. The studyadopted a Quasi-experimental, pretest-post-test design. The population for the study consists of all the 147-yeartwoagricultural education students of the two colleges of education in Plateau State. Purposive sampling wasused to select the Federal College of Education, Pankshin, and 75 students were selected using a simple randomsampling technique. A 25-item multiple-choice Agricultural Skill Acquisition Test (ASAT) was used as aninstrument for data collection. Research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation, while tteststatistics were used to test the null hypotheses at the .05 level of significance (P=0.05). The findingsrevealed that both project and demonstration teaching approaches have significant effects on students’acquisition of agricultural skills. The result also showed that, project teaching approach is more effective inteaching agricultural skills than the demonstration teaching approach. The study concluded that the projectteaching approach will enhance students’ acquisition of agricultural skills than the demonstration teachingapproach, and that the use of project and demonstration teaching approaches to teach agricultural skills will bemore effective in facilitating agricultural education students’ acquisition of agricultural skills than theconventional lecture approach. The researcher recommended that curriculum planners and agricultural educationteachers should emphasise the importance of using project and demonstration teaching approaches in colleges ofeducation.

Keywords

Project demonstration teaching approaches agricultural skills acquisition colleges of education

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How to Cite

ALKALI, G. N., & BAKO, P. W. (2025). EFFECTS OF PROJECT AND DEMONSTRATION TEACHING APPROACHES ON STUDENTS’ AGRICULTURAL SKILLS ACQUISITION IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION, PLATEAU, NIGERIA. Journal of Educational Research and Development, 20(1), 107-116.

G. N. ALKALI, and P. W. BAKO, "EFFECTS OF PROJECT AND DEMONSTRATION TEACHING APPROACHES ON STUDENTS’ AGRICULTURAL SKILLS ACQUISITION IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION, PLATEAU, NIGERIA," Journal of Educational Research and Development, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 107-116, October 2025.

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