Abstract
The study focused on capacity building needs of Agricultural
science teachers in handling students with hearing impairment in
Secondary Schools in South-West Nigeria. Survey research design
was adopted for the study. The population of the study consists of
51 Agricultural science teachers. All the 51 Agricultural science
teachers were used in the study. Collection A 42 item questionnaire
was developed for gathering the data. The instrument was
validated by five experts. Cronbach alpha was used to determining
the reliability of the instrument. The instrument yielded reliability
coefficient of 0.83. 51 copies of the questionnaire were administered
to the respondents with 100% return rate. It was found out that
agricultural teachers science require capacity building in Handling
students with hearing impairment in Secondary School in South-
West Nigeria. It was recommended that the identified areas where
agricultural science teachers needed capacity building be packaged
into a retraining programme to be utilized in re-training
agricultural science teachers in secondary schools through seminars
and workshops.