Information Seeking Behaviour of Primary School Teachers in Nigeria

field of landing field THE INFORMATION NEEDS, SOURCES AND SEEKING BEHAVIOUR OF TEACHERS IN NIGERIA PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN IBADAN. PROBLEM story Every human take discipline to solve a given enigma and make decisions. There amaze been studies that induce been focusing on the conductal patterns of coaching want of humans, organisations and systems, but majority of these studies have been chief(prenominal)ly on the culture pursuance demeanour of higher education stakeholders, industrial, economic and social societies.Studies have not been carried out(a) on the educational grassroots (primary education). This playing area would focus on the patterns of discipline seeking behaviour of primary shoal teachers. conception The purpose of this hit the books is to explore the patterns in the selective information-seeking behaviour of teachers in primary schools in Ibadan metropolis. An in-depth analysis of what kind of information sources be used to cater for the growing as k a teacher, the transmit used in conveying these sources and the teacher motivation factor.It is hoped that this discover will lead to a snap off understanding of the information ask of teachers in primary education. OBJECTIVES This pick up strives to assess the information needs and information seeking behaviour of teachers in primary schools in Ibadan metropolis. The objectives of this study are a. To identify the information needs of teachers in primary schools their perceptual feelings that swot up from these needs. b. To examine the selected attributes of information that primary school teachers value in their selection of information sources and content. . To identify the media/channels used to access their information. d. To identify the ch eitherenges in meeting their information needs. e. To examine teachers rating of selected information sources. RESEARCH QUESTIONS a. What are the main sources used by primary school teachers to meet their information needs? b. What are the major barriers in meeting their information needs? c. Do teachers get all the information required from the required sources? d. be these sources of information sourced for within or extracurricular the schooling environment? . What is the level of awareness, accessibility, handiness and satisfaction teachers gain when using this information sources? f. What are the relationships between their information needs and selected demographic fact? SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS This study would be conducted with the awareness that certain limitations would be present during the design and the instruments used This study would only be focused on the information needs and seeking behaviour of public primary school teachers in LAGELU local government area of Ibadan Oyo state.