INFLUENCE OF WORK ETHICS ON EFFECTIVE TEACHING OF BUSINESS EDUCATION COURSES IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA
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The need to improve the quality of business education programmes necessitated this work. This study investigates the influence of work ethics on teaching business education courses in colleges of education located in Kwara State. It is a perception study. The study had four specific research purposes, research questions, and hypotheses tested at 0.05 significance level. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The study population was 65, comprising 59 business educators and six deans in the six colleges of education who are business educators in Kwara State. The total population was used for the study because of its controllable size. The instrument for data collection was a 24-item structured questionnaire tagged Work Ethics and Effective Teaching of Business Education Courses Questionnaire (WEETBECQ) with a 4-point rating scale. The instrument went through face and content validation by four experts. The instrument's reliability was ensured using Cronbach's Alpha, which yielded a reliability coefficient of 0. 932. Mean and Standard Deviation were used to analyze the data collected to answer the research questions. The hypotheses were tested using One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The findings identified work ethics in terms of punctuality to class, dedication to duty, work loyalty, and practical communication skills to a great extent for effective teaching of business education courses in colleges of education in Kwara State. Based on the study's findings, it was concluded that class punctuality significantly affects the effective teaching of business education courses. This is because punctuality in class indicates respect for others, helps establish strong work ethics, and enhances productivity, credibility, and professionalism. Colleges of education should provide a conducive and enabling environment that will enable business courses to be taught effectively, thereby promoting business education programmes and allowing them to be widely accepted by students.
Keywords: Work ethics, effective teaching, business education, colleges of education.
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