STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING OF BUSINESS EDUCATION IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN ANAMBRA STATE
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The study ascertained business educators rating of equipment maintenance strategies for effective teaching of business education in tertiary institutions in Anambra State. Two research questions guided the study and four hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted the descriptive research design. The population of the study comprised 122 business educators in the six tertiary institutions in Anambra State. The instrument for data collection was a 22-item questionnaire structured on a 5-point rating scale of Very High Extent (VHE), High Extent (HE), Moderate Extent (ME), Low Extent (LE) and Very Low Extent (VLE). The instrument was validated by three experts in business education in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. To determine the reliability of the instrument, a pilot test was conduct. Test on reliability of the instrument using Cronbach Alpha method which yielded the scores of 0.73, 0.76, for clusters B1and B2 respectively. Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions and determine the homogeneity or otherwise of the respondents views. The hypotheses were analyzed with one way Analysis of Variance and t-test. Findings revealed that business educators rated to a high extent that preventive and corrective measures were effective equipment maintenance strategies for effective teaching of business education in tertiary institutions in Anambra State. Findings also showed that gender and institution type influenced the respondents opinion. Based on these findings, the researchers recommended that administrators of business education programme in tertiary institutions should regularly organize training programme for business educators and technologist on preventive strategies for maintaining equipment in the business education programme.
Keywords. Equipment maintenance, strategies, teaching, Business Education.
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