Availability and use of Audio-Visual Aids in Teaching Science

Abstract

Audio-visual instructional materials are highly motivating supplements to make the teaching effective. The learning process itself is based primarily on sensory experiences. So, availability and use of audio, visual aids helps to make the science learning permanent, to transfer the learning and to understand the science structure. The main objective of the study is to find out the availability of instructional materials in the secondary private and public schools, to find out the teacher knowledge and skills to construct and use of teaching materials. The study is based on primary data drawn by observation and questionnaire on the field visited and secondary sources of data collected from the checklist and Districts Education office, Kathmandu. The data analysis procedure was descriptive in nature and appropriate statistical measurements with a sensible description of availability and use of instructional materials in teaching science. Thus, this study proved the availability and use of instructional materials more than private school with compare to public schools and the availability of instructional materials in the schools was not satisfactory. Even available materials in the schools were not used properly by teachers at the time of teaching in science. The findings and conclusion of the study will help to concern agencies. It is better to conduct such type of research studies at the national level.