BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS' RATING OF THE TEACHING OF WORD PROCESSING AND DESKTOP PUBLISHING SKILLS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN SOUTH EAST NIGERIA
Abstract
The study investigated business education students' rating of the teaching of word processing and desktop publishing skills. A total of 350 of 791 students in the population were selected through simple random sampling from federal, state and private universities and colleges of education in south east Nigeria. Questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. Mean score, standard deviation, t-test were used for data analysis. The results of data collected and analyzed indicated that word processing was rated well taught while desktop publishing was rated poorly taught. The results of the test of null hypothesis suggested a significant difference in the mean rating of respondents. It was concluded that business education students rate word processing and desktop publishing skills poorly taught. It was recommended that business education students should effectively be taught desktop publishing skills as they are contained in the curriculum.
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