DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i01.029

Pages: 168-179

The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between students’ perception of quality of instructional resources used in teacher education programmes and their attitude towards active participation in learning activities in the universities in Nakuru County, Kenya.The study focused on quality of the Instructional resources namely: Time, Library, and Accommodation and Lecture Hall resources. Learning activities studied were Attending Lectures, Doing Assignments, Doing Private Studies, Sitting Exams and Participating in Group Discussions. Deming Fleming and Cognitive Dissonance Theory premised this study on the Theory of Total Quality Management for Attitude Change advanced by Festinger Leon. This research study adopted the descriptive survey research design.Data was collected from a sample population of 310 obtained from a total of 6 universities- Private and Public Chartered Universities- offering teacher education programs. Stratified, purposive and simple random sampling techniqueswere used. Sample size was 257. Data from students’ questionnaires were analyzed using statistical tools in the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations were calculated. One- way Analysis of Variance, Post Hoc Test, T-tests were carried out to measure significant differences between means of samples.