Abstract:
Teaching and learning activities are interesting when audio visual aids are used effectively and efficiently in a classroom teaching situation. A well planned and imaginative use of audiovisual aids in lessons should do much to banish apathy, and give students something practical to see and do, and at the same time helping to train them to think things out themselves. This study was carried out to investigate the availability and utilization of audio visual aids among the nurse educators in Schools of Nursing, Anambra State, South-east Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive cross sectional design. All the 116 nurse educators in Schools of Nursing in Anambra State comprised the subjects for the study. Data were collected using researcher-constructed questionnaire with a reliability of 0.816. Statistical analysis of the data generated was done using simple descriptive statistical analysis and inferential statistical analysis of variance (ANOVA) to analyze the relationship between variables. The major findings of the study are that in Schools of Nursing, Anambra State, white boards 116 (100%), models 116 (100%), charts 116 (100%), textbooks/library 114 (98.3%) and specimens 110 ( 94.8%) are available for teaching and learning. Teachers greatly use whiteboards(100%) and textbooks(82.3%) while teaching. 99% of the teachers have knowledge of challenges associated with the utilization of audio visual aids. 100% of the teachers agreed that there are strategies to be adopted to resolve challenges hindering the effective use of audio visual aids. There was no significant difference (p> 0.05) in the utilization of audio visual aids between male and female teachers. There was no significant difference ( p > 0 .05 ) between teachers experience and their utilization of audio visual aids. There was no significant difference ( p > 0 .05 ) between teachers’ ranks and their utilization of audio visual aids. There was no significant difference ( p > 0 .05 ) in the challenges associated with audio visual aids use among the teachers. Findings of this study revealed that there is still need to train teachers so that they will be knowledgeable in planning and using audio visual aids for effective classroom instruction. The governments should provide funds for the purchase of more audio visual aids, teachers should be supervised for proper and effective use of audio visual aids. The teachers and students should be involved in the
improvisation of audio visual aids.
