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Subject Content-efficacy and Skills Proficiency of Trainee Agriculture Teachers Holding National Certificate in Agriculture, Zimbabwe
Article Number: SIS316907AI211222
21st December, 2022
Author(s):
Xavier Edziwa, Andrew Ncube
Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to determine the extent to which trainee agriculture teachers,
with a National Certificate in Agriculture qualification, were confident in their ability to teach
with respect to subject content and practical skills. This was achieved by examining how
these trainee teachers perceived their subject content-efficacy and practical skills proficiency
related to the Zimbabwe ‘O’-Level Agriculture Syllabus 5034. Forty-six trainee agriculture
teachers from a technical teachers’ college participated in the study. Data was collected using
a questionnaire with items weighted on a 5-point Likert scale. Data analysis was done using
SPSS Statistics 17.0. The trainee teachers were least efficacious in the laying out of
experiments and Agricultural Economics but were rather efficacious in crop science and
production. In practicals, trainee teachers were least efficacious in laying out experimental
sites and farm machinery but rather efficacious in animal science and crop production.