Published Article

The study sought to examine the influence teachers’ knowledge of instructional media on teachers’ performance in secondary schools in Uyo Senatorial District. Two objective and hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted a survey design. The population of the study included all the male and female teachers and students in 96 secondary schools in the 6 local Education Committees (LEC) of Uyo Senatorial district of Awa Ibom state. The researcher developed an instrument tagged “Media Utilization Questionnaire (IMUQ) and Questionnaire on Students’ Perception of Teachers’ Performance (QSPTP)” for data collection. To ensure that the instrument is reliable, split-half reliability estimate using 0.86 and 0.73 reliability coefficient was run on the questionnaire. The hypotheses were analysed using t-test analysis. From the result of the findings, it was seen that there is significant effect of teachers’ knowledge of instructional media design strategies on teachers’ performance. It was also seen that there is significant effect of teachers’ knowledge of instructional media design strategies on teachers’ performance. It was thereby concluded that Teachers’ has adequate knowledge of instructional media design strategies and instructional media production. One of the recommendations was that Audio-visual units should be established in the secondary schools to help the teachers design and produce instructional media for use during every lesson.