Influence of Curriculum, Facilities and Teacher Competencies on Skill Acquisition of Office Technology and Management Students in Polytechnics in South-Western Nigeria
[Thesis]
Yusuf, Shuaibu
Umoru, Titus
Kwara State University (Nigeria)
2019
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Ph.D.
Kwara State University (Nigeria)
2019
The study examined influence of curriculum, facilities and teacher competencies on skill acquisition of office technology and management students in polytechnics in South-Western Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population for the study consisted of 152 lecturers and instructors in all accredited polytechnics in South-Western Nigeria. Four research questions guided the study and four null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. No sample was drawn, the entire population was studied. The data for the study was collected through questionnaire titled OTM Curriculum, Facilities and Teacher Competencies on Students' Skill Acquisition in Polytechnics which was duly validated by three experts in Kwara State University, Malete. The reliability co-efficient calculated for the instrument was found to be 0.868 which indicated that the instrument for the study was reliable. Mean and standard deviation were the tools used to analyze the research questions while the hypotheses were tested using independent t-test statistics at 0.05 level of significance. The instrument found that the quality of the OTM curriculum had significant impact on the acquisition of skills among OTM students in polytechnics in South-Western Nigeria. To a large extent, teaching facilities has impact on the acquisition of skills among OTM polytechnic students in South-Western Nigeria. Based on these findings, it was concluded that if properly implemented and used, the current curriculum and facilities would contribute to the acquisition of relevant skills. It was also concluded that the lecturers are competent in teaching relevant skills to the students in the polytechnics. To this end, it was recommended among others that the curriculum of office technology and management should be constantly reviewed, revised and adjusted in order to meet the challenges brought about by information and communication technology. Lecturers could be trained and retrained in order to keep them abreast and competent with the current trends in curriculum and instruction of Office Technology and Management courses and for effective service delivery.