STRATEGIES CONSIDERED EFFECTIVE FOR TEACHING JOB SKILLS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS BY BUSINESS EDUCATORS IN ADAMAWA AND TARABA STATES, NIGERIA

A. N. Eze, N. O. Azu

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Exposing business education students to the practical requirements of the dynamic business world motivated this study, which sought to determine instructional strategies considered effective by business educators for teaching job skills in tertiary institutions in Adamawa and Taraba States. Two research questions guided the study and four null hypotheses were tested. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The entire population of 68 business educators in the area was studied without sampling. A structured questionnaire validated by experts was used for data collection. Cronbach Alpha reliability method was used to establish the internal consistency of the items which yielded coefficients of 0.69 and 0.76 for the two clusters with an overall coefficient of 0.73. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that the business educators rated reflective practice and scaffolding instructional strategies as highly effective for the teaching of job skills and their opinions were not significantly influenced by type of institution and experience. It was concluded that the adoption of these instructional strategies will facilitate the acquisition of job skills among business education students in order to be efficient in meeting workplace needs. The study recommended among others that, the Ministry of Education in partnership with National Universities Commission, Tertiary Education Trust Fund, and the National Commission for Colleges of Education should provide consistent training and re-training programmes for capacity building for business educators to enable them keep abreast with trends in the changing demands of the society.

Keywords: Instructional strategies, job skills, business educators


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