NCE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE CHOICE OF BUSINESS EDUCATION IN THE NORTH-EAST ZONE OF NIGERIA
NCE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE CHOICE OF BUSINESS EDUCATION IN THE NORTH-EAST ZONE OF NIGERIA
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2013-03
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BAKO, Danladi
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Abstract
This study entitled “NCE Students’ Perception and Its Influence on the Choice of
Business Education in the North-East Zone of Nigeria” determined the
perception of students who undertake Business Education as a programme of
study and the influence of the perception on their choice of the programme. Four
specific objectives and four Research Questions were stated while four null
hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Literature and empirical
studies were reviewed. From all the literature reviewed, there was hardly
available record on study of this nature in the North-East zone of Nigeria. This
was the main gap which this study served to fill. Descriptive Research Survey
design was used for the study. Population for the study was 1354 NCE II
students and the sample was 271 students. A structured questionnaire was the
main instrument of the study; and out of the 271 administered, 176 were
retrieved and found valid. Mean scores were used to answer the four research
questions. The t-test was used to test the four hypotheses. Results of the study
showed among others that students perceived Business Education as a
programme of study that seeks to equip recipients with skills and knowledge for
office work and self reliant; Students’ perception influenced their choice of
Business Education as a career to a very great extent. Results of the t-test
showed that no significant difference exists between the mean scores of male and
female students on their perception of Business Education programmed as a
career. Results also showed that no significant difference exists between the
mean scores of male and female students on the extent to which their perception
influences their choice of Business Education programme as a career as well as
option. However, t-test showed that significant difference exists between the
mean scores of male and female students on the extent to which gender
perception influences their choice of the programme as a career. It was
concluded that students chose Business Education programme because they
needed the skills to enable them establish their own businesses hence more
students will enroll in the programme. It was recommended among others that
Management of Colleges of Education in the North-East Zone that run business
education programme should plan to construct lecture theatres for business
education department especially where there was none in order to meet up with
the enrolment challenges in future. The major limitation of the study was that it
was conducted when some colleges were writing examination and it was through
the assistance of staff from those colleges that students filled the questionnaire
administered to them. It was also suggested that similar study should be
conducted in other zones in order to establish if findings would be similar.
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA
Keywords
NCE STUDENTS, PERCEPTION, INFLUENCE, BUSINESS, EDUCATION, NORTH-EAST, NIGERIA