Teaching Methods and Learners' Environment in a Nigerian University

The research , a descriptive survey focused on the teaching methods and learners environment of education students in a State University of in Nigeria. It had 400 randomly selected male and female students from 100 to 400 levels as samples. They responded to a questionnaire used to collect the data. The data revealed that teaching methods and the learners environment have significant relationship. Highly prepared environment produced better learning among the samples. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the authority need to provide sufficient state of the art lecture rooms for students. The study was a descriptive design of the survey research. The population was all students in the faculty of Education, University of Ado-Ekiti. The sample was 400 randomly selected male and female students from 100 to 400 hundred levels. A questionnaire was used to collect the data from the students. The questionnaire had a reliability co-efficient of 0.85 while the validity co-efficient was 0.77. Three null hypotheses were generated and tested at 0.05 level of significance, using correlation and t-test analysis. The results of the analyses showed that teaching methods and the learners environment have a significant relationship. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the library be stuffed with relevant books and also that the authority need to provide sufficient lecture rooms for the students.