ENYEKIT, E OWAJI (Ph.D.) (MABEN, AMNITAD, MTCN)
DEPARTMENT OF OFFICE TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT,
PORT HARCOURT POLTECHNIC RUMUOLA, PORT HARCOURT
OGWUNTE, P CLINTON. (Ph.D.), (MABEN) & ENYEKIT, KATE E. OWAJI2(MABEN)
RESEARCH FELLOWS
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS EDUCATION,
RIVERS STATE UNIVERSITY, NKPOLU-OROWORUKWO, PORT HARCOURT.
Abstract.
The need for skills acquisition in poverty eradication to nation building can never be undermined. In doing this, the level of educational attainment and skills acquisition of the students need to be a prerequisite for self reliance. The survey research design was adopted for the study. The population consists of 95 business educators drawn
from the department of business education in selected tertiary institutions in Rivers State. There was no sample taken, as this population would be managed effectively. The researchers developed the instrument tagged ?Business Educators Skills Acquisition for Teaching Business Education Skills Subject? (BESATBESS). The instrument has 11 items that was duly validated by three experts in business education. The data collected were analyzed using the mean statistic, while z-test was used to test the two generated null hypotheses. Any mean score of 2.5 and above
was termed accepted and mean scores below 2.5 were termed as not accepted. The findings revealed that pedagogical and instructional planning competencies are highly required by business educators for effective teaching of business education to students. It was also revealed that communication competencies are highly required for effective teaching of business to students. Based on the findings in the study, it was therefore necessary to note that there are no ICT facilities in the teaching of business education programme in tertiary institutions in Rivers State, and it was further recommended that, teachers in business education programme should be retrained in ICT programme and packages in tertiary institutions in Rivers State.
Keywords:?Business education, programme and skills acquisition.
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