APPRAISAL OF BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE TRENDS IN COMPUTER RELATED COURSES: IMPLICATIONS FOR LECTURERS' INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN
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The study was designed to appraise the performance trends of business education students in computer related courses from 2013/14 to 2016/17 academic sessions in Anambra State. Four research questions guided the study. An ex-post facto design was adopted for the study. The entire population of 2161 business education students for the four academic sessions were studied without sampling. Students' scores in CSC 100, BED 143, BED 244, BED 345 and BED 493 from 2013/14 to 2016/17 academic sessions were used for data collection. Research questions were answered using frequency count and percentages. Findings of the study revealed that business education students performed slightly better in domesticated computer courses (BED 143, 244, 345 and 493) than Computer Appreciation (CSC 100) in 2013/2014 academic session. Additionally, the study also revealed that business education students have a better performance in domesticated computer oriented courses (BED 143, 244, 345 and 493) than Computer Appreciation (CSC 100) from 2014/2015 to 2016/2017 academic sessions. The researchers concluded that, lecturers in Physical Sciences should integrate effective instructional strategies that are capable of stimulating business education students' interest and performance in computer appreciation. It was recommended among others that, educational administrators should collaborate with computer service providers on the training and retraining of computer lecturers at least twice a yea to enable them acquire modern technological skills and competencies to design effective teaching strategies that can improve business education students performance in computer related courses.
Key words: Education, business education and computer courses
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