COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TOUCH AND SIGHT METHODS OF TEACHING KEYBOARDING SKILLS TO BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN KADUNA AND KANO STATES
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TOUCH AND SIGHT METHODS OF TEACHING KEYBOARDING SKILLS TO BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN KADUNA AND KANO STATES
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2012-07
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NYAM, Yohanna Yock
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The Comparative Study of Touch and Sight Methods of Teaching Keyboarding
Skills to Business Education Students in Colleges of Education in Kaduna and
Kano States was carried out in order to find out the better teaching method for
imparting keyboarding skills and ensuring keyboarding skills development among
Business Education students in Colleges of Education in Kaduna and Kano States.
The specific objectives were to compare the keyboarding speed, the mean score of
keyboarding accuracy and also to determine if there is any difference in
keyboarding speed and accuracy of College of Education students taught using
sight and touch methods of teaching keyboarding skills. Four research questions
and four Null hypotheses in line with the research objectives were formulated. One
of them includes; to what extent does the keyboarding speed of College of
Education students taught using sight method differ from those taught using touch
method. One of the Null hypotheses also included: there is no significant difference
between the mean score in typewriting speed of students taught using sight and
touch methods of teaching keyboarding skills. Equating experimental design was
used on the two methods with a population of 739 students and a sample size of
120 from the four Colleges of Education; two from Kaduna state and two from
Kano state. The analysis showed that the touch groups were better in keyboarding
speed with a difference of 8.03 above the sight group. The touch group also
performed better than the sight group with a mean score difference of 10.92. Also,
females students performed slightly better in typewriting speed than their male
counterparts with mean score difference of 5.34 for sight and 2.00 for touch
methods. It was concluded that students performed better under the touch
keyboarding method than in the sight keyboarding method. The study recommends
among others that typewriting teachers should use more of touch method in
teaching speed and accuracy skills in keyboarding than sight method.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE
STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL
FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF M.ED BUSINESS EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
FACULTY OF EDUCATION, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA NIGERIA
JULY, 2012
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COMPARATIVE,, STUDY,, TOUCH,, SIGHT,, METHODS,, TEACHING,, KEYBOARDING,, SKILLS,, BUSINESS,, EDUCATION,, STUDENTS,, COLLEGES,, EDUCATION,, KADUNA,, KANO STATES.