Teaching Practice Outputs in Public and Private Secondary Schools in Nigeria: A Comparative Analysis

Abstract

This research evaluates the impact of teaching practice on teachers output in public and private secondary schools in Nigeria. The paper reviews literature on teacher education and comprehensively conceptualises the term teaching practice. The descriptive survey research design was adopted to investigate student-teachers who are going through the teaching practice (TP) scheme. The population of the study consists of third year pre-service teachers (Degree) University of Ibadan, Centre for Degree Programme, Federal College of Education, Abeokuta, Nigeria. A sample of one hundred and forty-four (144) third year pre-service teachers was selected for the study through stratified random sampling technique. In relation to student's performance, the average score for maths for public school (68.76%) is higher than that for private school (59.12%) and for English language the average score for private school (73.23%) is higher than that of public school (51.25%). For physics, the average score for private school (69.67%) is slightly higher than that of public school (64.78%) and for chemistry, the average score for private school (71.19%) is slightly higher than that of public school (58.25%). The study recommends for strategic efforts of all stakeholders in improving the quality of the teaching practice programme.