Competency-Based Curriculum Factors as Correlates of Middle Basic Pupils’ Effectiveness - Achievement in Abuja

The study examines the extent to which competency-based curriculum factors predict the achievement of effectiveness among Middle Basic Education pupils in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. In this regard, the researcher formulated three research questions along with three null hypotheses to guide the study. This study was a correlational research design. The population of the study consisted of all 156 public primary schools with 2100 teachers in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. With the aid of the Taro Yamen Sampling Formula, the sample size of 210 respondents was randomly drawn from the total population. Four self-designed non-cognitive instruments titled "Teachers' Unawareness of CBC Scale" (TUCBCS), "Lack of a Clear Framework for CBC Scale" (LCFCBCS), "Lack of CBC requisite Knowledge and Skills Scale" (LCBCKSS) and "Achievement of Effectiveness Scale" (AES) were used for data collection. Face and content validities of the instruments were ensured by three experts in the Department of Educational Curriculum, at the National Open University of Nigeria. The Cronbach reliability coefficient was used to establish the reliability coefficients of the instruments. TUCBCS, LCFCBCS, LCBCKSS and AES yielded reliability indexes of 0.89, 0.85, 0.87 and 0.82 respectively. Simple and multiple regression were used to answer the research questions while t-test and ANOVA associated with linear and multiple regression were used to test the null hypotheses. The study found as follows: teachers' unawareness, lack of a clearcut CBC framework, and lack of CBC requisite knowledge and skills significantly relate to little or no achievement of effectiveness under CBC initiative in the area council which independently and jointly predicted the reason the middle basic education pupils in Abuja Municipal Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja are not experiencing the expected results or positive impacts of CBC initiative as implicitly mentioned in the objective statements of UBE. The study recommended among other things that sensitization programmes and special training should be given to primary school teachers to have a better understanding of CBC and how it works, AMAC in collaboration with relevant authorities in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja should develop a clear-cut framework for CBC initiative to which every primary school teacher is to be familiarized and professional development programmes should be organized for primary school teachers to acquire the appropriate and relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes that make CBC initiative to succeed.