A SURVEY OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS' PERSPECTIVES ABOUT ADVANCING BASIC SCIENCE THROUGH TECHNOLOGIES IN OYO TOWNSHIP

The primary education remains the bed-rock of any functional education and such should be handled to standard. Science education is a sine qua non to national development as it holds impacts on individual and societal development. Thus, teaching and learning of science in primary education should be according to the Next Generation Science Standard (NGSS) with reflective thinking and technology. This paper thus investigated the perception of primary school teachers' about advancing basic science through technologies in Oyo township. A survey design was adopted for the study, sampled 240 primary school teachers from the four local Government Areas of Oyo township and a validated instrument titled “Perceived Impact of Advancing Basic Science with Technology Questionnaire (PIABSTQ, r=.83) was used for data collection. Frequency counts, percentages, t-test and Analysis of Variance were used for data analysis. The results revealed that there are 154 female, 175 six years and above, 126 primary 4-6 and 145 first degree and above teachers in the distribution, significant influence of teachers’ perspectives on advancing Basic Science teaching and learning through technology (t= 144.33; df= 239; p<.05). The significant influence of teachers’ perception of advancing Basic Science teaching and learning through technology was not beclouded by gender, teaching experience, class taught and qualification. It was therefore recommended that technological gadgets should be made available in primary schools with proper training and retraining of in-service teachers for effective advancing of Basic Science with technology.