INFLUENCE OF BUSINESS EDUCATION CURRICULLUM ON SKILLS ACQUISITION OF NCE GRADUATES IN ADAMAWA STATE NIGERIA
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The main objective of study was to assessed the influence of business education curriculum on skills acquisition of NCE graduates in Adamawa state. The study had two specific objectives from where two research questions was raised. The study adopted descriptive survey design and the population constituted of 80 NCE graduates of business education which were drawn from two colleges of education in Adamawa State. There was no sample since the population size was small and manageable. The instrument for data collection was a 25-items structured questionnaire titled: Impact of Business Education Curriculum on Skills Acquisition Questionnaire (IBECSAQ) and was validated by three experts from Department of Vocational and Technical Education, Faculty of Education, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. In order to determine the reliability, the instrument was administered to 20 NCE graduates, who were not part of the research study. Their responses were analyzed using the Cronbach alpha method, which yielded the coefficient alpha value of 0.70. The instrument was further administered to respondents by the researcher, with the help of two trained research assistants. The major findings of the research include the following: NCE graduates of business education curriculum in colleges of education had acquired both accounting and marketing skills and there is no significant differences between mean responses of NCE graduates of college of education Hong and federal college of education Yola on the influence of business education curriculum on accounting and marketing skills acquisition; (the P value of 0.198 > 0.05 and P value of 0.199 > 0.05) respectively. It was concluded that the NCE graduates of business education curriculum in colleges of education had acquired both accounting and marketing skills. In line with the findings and conclusion, the study recommended among others that Lecturers in Business education should be sponsored by tetfund to acquire a professional certificate in accounting such as ANAN and ICAN so as to acquired more recent skills in accounting to be able to impact positively to their students for better accounting skills acquisition by NCE graduates of business education curriculum in colleges of education.
Key Word: Influence, Business Education, Curriculum, Skills Acquisition, and Graduates
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