%0 Journal Article %1 okoli2024business %A Okoli, C.I. %A Okolo, J.A. %D 2024 %J International Journal of Recent Innovations in Academic Research %K business curriculum education skills %N 2 %P 20-28 %R https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10701610 %T Business Educators’ Rating of Entrepreneurial Skills for Effective Implementation of Office Education Curriculum in Colleges of Education in South-South, Nigeria %U https://www.ijriar.com/docs/2024/2024-feb/IJRIAR-04.pdf %V 8 %X The study ascertained business educators’ ratings of entrepreneurial skills for effective implementation of office education curriculum in colleges of education in South-South, Nigeria. A research question guided the study. Two null hypotheses were tested. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised 234 business educators in the nine public colleges of education in South-South, Nigeria. The entire population was studied because the population size was manageable. The instrument for data collection was 11-item structured questionnaire. The instrument was validated by three experts. Cronbach’s alpha was used to determine the reliability of the items instrument and obtained co-efficient value of 0.78. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer research question, while t-test and analysis of variance were used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that business educators rated entrepreneurial skills highly effective for implementation of office education curriculum in colleges of education in South-South, Nigeria. Gender and years of teaching experience significantly influenced the business educators’ ratings of entrepreneurial skills for effective implementation of office education curriculum in colleges of education in South-South Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study concluded that the ratings of business educators proved that entrepreneurial skills are highly effective for the implementation of office education curriculum in colleges of education in South-South Nigeria in order to prepare the students for self-employment and self-reliance on graduation, thereby achieving the objective of the programme. It was therefore recommended among others that there should be conscious efforts by school management in organizing capacity building seminar and workshop for business educators on effective teaching of entrepreneurship courses in office education curriculum that will best equip their students for gainful employment and self-reliance on graduation.

@article{okoli2024business, abstract = {The study ascertained business educators’ ratings of entrepreneurial skills for effective implementation of office education curriculum in colleges of education in South-South, Nigeria. A research question guided the study. Two null hypotheses were tested. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised 234 business educators in the nine public colleges of education in South-South, Nigeria. The entire population was studied because the population size was manageable. The instrument for data collection was 11-item structured questionnaire. The instrument was validated by three experts. Cronbach’s alpha was used to determine the reliability of the items instrument and obtained co-efficient value of 0.78. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer research question, while t-test and analysis of variance were used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that business educators rated entrepreneurial skills highly effective for implementation of office education curriculum in colleges of education in South-South, Nigeria. Gender and years of teaching experience significantly influenced the business educators’ ratings of entrepreneurial skills for effective implementation of office education curriculum in colleges of education in South-South Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study concluded that the ratings of business educators proved that entrepreneurial skills are highly effective for the implementation of office education curriculum in colleges of education in South-South Nigeria in order to prepare the students for self-employment and self-reliance on graduation, thereby achieving the objective of the programme. It was therefore recommended among others that there should be conscious efforts by school management in organizing capacity building seminar and workshop for business educators on effective teaching of entrepreneurship courses in office education curriculum that will best equip their students for gainful employment and self-reliance on graduation.}, added-at = {2024-02-25T17:04:24.000+0100}, author = {Okoli, C.I. and Okolo, J.A.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a6aa5aa9f9ba30df298ace904080536b/ijriar_journal}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10701610}, interhash = {43ddc001f73828ae51ae25a887148390}, intrahash = {a6aa5aa9f9ba30df298ace904080536b}, issn = {E-ISSN: 2635-3040; P-ISSN: 2659-1561}, journal = {International Journal of Recent Innovations in Academic Research}, keywords = {business curriculum education skills}, language = {English}, month = {February}, number = 2, pages = {20-28}, timestamp = {2024-02-25T17:04:24.000+0100}, title = {Business Educators’ Rating of Entrepreneurial Skills for Effective Implementation of Office Education Curriculum in Colleges of Education in South-South, Nigeria}, url = {https://www.ijriar.com/docs/2024/2024-feb/IJRIAR-04.pdf}, volume = 8, year = 2024 }