NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF THE ADEQUACY OF ACCOUNTING EDUCATION CURRICULUM CONTENTS IN FEDERAL COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN SOUTH-SOUTH, NIGERIA
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The study conducted a needs assessment of the aadequacy of accounting education curriculum contents in federal colleges of education in South-South, Nigeria. One research question was raised and one null hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted sequential explanatory mixed methods research design. The entire population of 148 (68 accounting educators and 148 final year accounting education students) was studied without sampling. A five-point rating scale questionnaire which was validated by experts and semi-structured interview schedule were used for data collection. The questionnaire has a reliability coefficient value of 0.73 using the internal consistency method with Cronbach alpha. Mean, standard deviation and t-test were used to analyze quantitative data while thematic analysis was used for qualitative data. The study revealed that aaccounting educators rated the curriculum contents of the programme as very highly adequate while the graduating students rated them as highly adequate. This means that small gap which is not significant exists between ratings of the accounting educators and graduating students on the adequacy of curriculum contents of the programme for skills acquisition. Furthermore, need for curriculum enrichment was the theme identified. Based on the findings, it was concluded that the lack of skills to secure employment among graduates of the programme is related to other factors and not contents of the curriculum although there are few areas the contents do not align with today’s sophisticated accounting workplace. It was recommended among others that curriculum developers should obtain updated information from employers of labour on skills they need from accounting education graduates in order to emphasize them in the curriculum and prescribe requirements for developing them in students for smooth transition from school to work.Â
Keywords. Colleges of Education, Curriculum, Accounting Education, Needs AssessmentKeywords
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