Emotional Intelligence and Teacher Self-Efficacy as Correlates of Media Improvisation among Lecturers in State Owned Colleges of Education in the South-West, Nigeria

Media improvisation is an innovative work-behaviour of lecturers in the Colleges of Education in Nigeria to train pre-service teachers and accomplish the vision of teacher education in Nigeria. This study investigated emotional intelligence (EI) and Teacher selfefficacy (TSE) as correlates of media improvisation among lecturers in the state-owned colleges of education in the South-West, Nigeria. EI is an interpersonal ability to bring positive outcomes, from intra and interpersonal relationships between the lecturers and students while in the study; TSE is the confidence and capability of the lecturers to utilise media resources for effective instructional delivery. Thus, these two variables are among the factors that could determine the media improvisation of the lecturers in the colleges of education. The study adopted a descriptive research design with multi stage procedure to select 710 respondents who were lecturers in the state-owned colleges of education in the zone, with 493 males, 217 females and age range between 25 and 61 years. The instruments used to collect data were: Emotional Intelligence Scale (β=0.79), Teacher Self-efficacy Scale (β=0.85) and Media improvisation scale (β=0.71). Research questions were answered and hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings showed that emotional intelligence and teacher self-efficacy jointly contributed 38.6% to media improvisation of lecturers [F(2,316)=99.236; p<0.05], R2=.386, that is, 39% variation was contributed to media improvisation and emotional intelligence contributed better to media improvisation (β = 0.48, P <.05) than teacher self-efficacy (β = 0.25, P < .05). The relationship between emotional intelligence and media improvisation was positively significant (r = .47, N = 710, P< .05) and also teacher self-efficacy had positive significant relationship to media improvisation (r=.35, N=710, P <.05). The emotional intelligence and teacher self-efficacy variables should be inculcated into the curriculum of teacher education in Nigeria for the proper training of pre-service teachers in media improvisation, so as to make the teachers’ instructional delivery more effective and efficient.