COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF PART-TIME AND REGULAR STUDENTS OF BUSINESS EDUCATION IN FEDERAL COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NORTH-WEST NIGERIA
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF PART-TIME AND REGULAR STUDENTS OF BUSINESS EDUCATION IN FEDERAL COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NORTH-WEST NIGERIA
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2021-03
Authors
USMAN, Nana Hauwa
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Abstract
This study is a comparative analysis of academic performance of part-time and
regular students of business education in federal colleges of education in North-west
Nigeria. Five research questions were answered and five null hypotheses were tested.
The study used ex-post facto research design and the total population used was 886
NCE III regular and NCE IV part-time business education students in Five Federal
Colleges of Education in the North-west Zone, Nigeria from 2015 to 2016 academic
sessions. The instrument used for data collection was record of students‟ Cumulative
Grade Point Average (CGPA) and their files to get records of students‟ age and
gender and class list from office of the Head of Department to get class size for the
2015/2016 academic sessions. The research questions were answered using mean
difference and standard deviation while t-test was used to test all the stated null
hypotheses. The analysis revealed that the regular students perform better than the
part-time students with a merit for the regular and a pass for the part-time students.
Findings also revealed that individual differences in terms of age, gender and the
class size of the part-time and regular students are linked to differences in the
academic achievements of students. The study concluded that the younger and the
older age students in the regular program perform better than the younger and older
students in the part-time business education program in the federal colleges of
education in North-west Nigeria. It further concluded that the fewer the class-size the
better the performance.The researcher made some recommendations among which
include that lecturers in the colleges of education especially those teaching the part -
time students to use appropriate teaching methods that will favour the old-age
students in part-time program to help them cope with learning situations. The study
further recommended that the class size of part-time programme should be
decongested to the recommended student-teacher ratio of atleast 1 – 50 for effective
teaching and learning.
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A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE
STUDIES AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT
OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF BUSINESS
EDUCATION DEGREE
DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA, NIGERIA
Keywords
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS,, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE,, PART-TIME,, REGULAR STUDENTS,, BUSINESS EDUCATION,, FEDERAL COLLEGES,, EDUCATION,, NORTH-WEST NIGERIA.