DETERMINANTS OF COLLEGES OF EDUCATION BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS’ CHOICE OF OFFICE TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OPTION IN NORTH-WEST GEO-POLITICAL ZONE, NIGERIA
DETERMINANTS OF COLLEGES OF EDUCATION BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS’ CHOICE OF OFFICE TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OPTION IN NORTH-WEST GEO-POLITICAL ZONE, NIGERIA
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2014-04
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AMOOR, Sev Sebastian
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Abstract
The study was conducted to establish the determinants of business education students’
choice of Office Technology and Management (OTM) in business education in
colleges of education in the North-Western States, Nigeria. The study was necessitated
by the continuous decline of business education students’ choice of Office Technology
and Management in Colleges of Education in the North western States, Nigeria, which
has resulted into escalating shortage of Office Technology and Management teachers
in secondary schools to teach shorthand, typewriting and office procedures and
corresponding shortage of Office Technology and Management educators to lecture in
tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The
study has six research questions to guide the study and six null hypotheses to be tested
at 0.05 level of significance. The entire seven hundred and sixty-six (766) NCE III
(accounting and Office Technology and Management) students and lecturers from all
the colleges of education in the North-Western States, Nigeria offering business
education programme were used for the study. Fifty seven percent (57%) copies of
questionnaire which were properly completed were retrieved and subjected to
statistical analyses. Weighted Mean was used to answer the research questions.
Weighted mean of 2.5 and above was used as benchmark for agree while weighted
mean of less than 2.5 represented disagree category. Logistic Regression was used to
test all the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed among
others that prestige has significant influence on business education students’ choice of
Office Technology and Management in colleges of education in the North Western
States, Nigeria. Based on this finding, the researcher concluded that if the
nomenclature of the practitioners of office technology and management in the world of
work remains as secretaries, there will be continuous decline of business education
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students’ enrolment into the option and this will consequently result to continuous
inadequacy in the number of trained office technology and management teachers or
lecturers in institutions of learning and office occupation in the future. In view of this
conclusion, it was recommended that the nomenclature of the office technology and
management practitioners in the world of work should be “Administrative Assistants”
or “Office Managers” instead of secretaries.
Description
A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF
POSTRGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR THE REQUIREMENTS FOR
THE AWARD OF DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN
BUSINESS EDUCATION.
DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
FACULTY OF EDUCATION,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA
APRIL, 2014
Keywords
COLLEGES, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY, MANAGEMENT OPTION, NORTH-WEST, GEO-POLITICAL ZONE,, NIGERIA