STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE SKILL ACQUISITION BY BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS: IMPLICATION FOR SUSTAINABLE HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT
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The purpose of the study was to determine how exposure to workplace apprentice-ship of undergraduates of business education could influence post graduation employability and job creation. Specifically, the study seeks to determine what skills business education graduates need to succeed (that is get employment) in the 21st century workplace and how that ties, into bringing them out of economic recession. Three research questions guided the study. The design is descriptive survey and
instrument used was questionnaire. The respondents were 55 postgraduate students of a Nigerian university in Anambra State purposively selected. The findings of the study revealed that there are
several teaching methods and that business educators’ should evaluate their disadvantages so as to utilize the most appropriate strategies that could impact positively on business education students’ skills for competitive market. Also that demonstration was rated as the best method of teaching because of students’ active participation, making learning more effective, not relying on rote learning, and this method develops creativity among students among other. Students’ perception and ratings about the interesting and effective teaching methods is a way to suggest improvements in teaching/ learning process. Amongst others, it was recommended that business educators’ need to educate students in effective ways of giving precise feedback that addresses specific aspects of their learning experience by making their teaching interesting.
Keywords: Strategies, Effective Skill Acquisition, Sustainable human capital development
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