ISLAMIC STUDIES LECTURERS’ ASSESSMENT ON THE ADEQUACY OF THE NIGERIA CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION (NCE) ISLAMIC STUDIES CURRICULUM IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA

Abstract

Frequent and periodic curriculum assessment has been viewed as a potent exercise for improving basement for curriculum 
planning and implementation. The role of teachers in the curriculum assessment exercise cannot be underestimated. 
Teachers’ are important factor to be taken into consideration when assessing curriculum because their opinion on curriculum 
assessment go to a large extent in determining the suitability of the curriculum. The study, therefore, assessed Islamic Studies 
Lecturers’ opinion on the adequacy of the Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) curriculum in north central Nigeria. The 
study involved 125 Islamic study lecturers from the s elected colleges of education in the region. Questionnaire was used to 
elicit needed data while interview was used to triangulate the information collected from respondents. The validity of the 
instrument was determined by given the draft to the expert in test construction and evaluation in the department of psychology 
FCT college of Education for face and content validity while the reliability of the instrument was determined by correlating 
the result of pilot study with the Ample-Edge Human Resource Development (AHRD), (2016:3) reliability level which stated 
that an instrument with a reliability coefficient of 0.75 - 0.80 is accepted for research purpose. The study revealed that Islamic 
Studies Curriculum The paper discovered that objectives and content of the curriculum are clearly stated, the contents are 
adequately consistent with the objectives, the contents are too cumbersome to teach, the hour allocated to teach contents are 
inadequate among others. It is concluded that the curriculum needs to be reviewed and recommendations were made to 
include: review of the curriculum objectives and contents as well, spreading to cover the currents challenges of 
unemployment and self-reliance