CHALLENGES OF BUSINESS STUDIES CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTION TOWARDS SKILL ACQUISITION AT UPPER BASIC LEVEL IN PORT HARCOURT LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, RIVERS STATE

Abstract

The study examined the importance of digital resources in Business education curriculum for students’ skill development. The descriptive survey design was used for this study. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study consists of 210 lecturers teaching Business education courses in four tertiary institutions in Rivers State. The stratified sampling technique was used to select 135 lecturers from the population. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire structured in a Likert format titled: Exploiting Digital Resources in Business Education Curriculum in Tertiary Institutions for Students Skill Acquisition (EDRBECTISSA). Only 128 copies of the questionnaire were retrieved among which 8 were not usable while only 120 was used for the study. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while t-test was used in testing the hypotheses. The findings revealed that digital resources can enhance students’ skill development in tertiary institutions. The study recommended that Business education lecturers should endeavor to develop in themselves the ability to use digital resources as to enable them become quality mentors to students in business education and that curriculum planners should include the findings of this study in the curriculum as to enable students achieve salable skills in the world of work.

Keywords: Business Education, Exploiting, Digital Resources, skill Development