ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF ERRORS, MADE IN TYPEWRITING BY SECRETARIAL STUDENTS
ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF ERRORS, MADE IN TYPEWRITING BY SECRETARIAL STUDENTS
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1999-09
Authors
PEREKPO, EBITIMI CLARENCE
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Abstract
The research study is an analysis and classification of errors
found in typescripts of graduating NCE (Nigeria Certificate in
Education) Secretarial Students in Post-Secondary institutions in
Borno and Yobe States of Nigeria. A total of one hundred and ten
students constituted the study. However, twenty-nine (29) error
types in accordance with the conventional error pattern category
across the participating institutions were identified. The study
showed that none of the errors analyzed were peculiar to particular
sex, institution, or group of students. Errors in the basic knowledge
and understanding and the stroking techniques were pre-dominant
across all the institutions of learning involved in the study. This was
strongly evident in misspelling and adjacent keystroke error types.
The research study explains that the students committed errors owing
to lack of keyboarding mastery, deficiency in linguistic and
communication skills, and their inability to type with good basic
technique. As a measure to enable our graduating NCE students to
effectively handle our JSS students as contained in the Minimum
Standard for Teacher Education, areas of greater emphasis should
cover development of communication skill, use of teacher
demonstration in teaching keyboarding skill, correct form and
typewriter usage. The implications of these findings and suggestions
is that teachers should be able to modify the contents of their scheme
of work for typewriting instruction to incorporate materials and
methods relevant to the development of both linguistic and
refinement of skills. Likewise, institutions should provide the
instructional media (audio-visual for the teaching and learning
process.
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT
OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF
MASTER OF EDUCATION
IN
BUSINESS EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OP VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
SEPTEMBER, 1999
Keywords
ANALYSIS,, CLASSIFICATION,, ERRORS,, TYPEWRITING,, SECRETARIAL,, STUDENTS