This descriptive study assessed the implementation of Trade/Entrepreneurship curricula in senior secondary schools in Kano State, Nigeria with the aim of assessing the extent to which such implementation empowered students for self-employment. The objectives of the study were to assess the entrepreneurship skills that students had acquired and identify the products they had successfully produced for sale in Kano State. The population of the study was the entire senior secondary school three (SS3) students offering Trade/Entrepreneurship in Kano State, which are 43,154. A sample of 380 students was selected using simple one-way cluster sampling techniques. The data was collected using a questionnaire entitled Questionnaire for Assessment of the Implementation of Trade/Entrepreneurship Curriculums in Senior Secondary Schools (QAITECSSS). The descriptive statistics of arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and bar chart were used to answer the research questions; while for inferential analysis, chi square was used to test the research hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that students had learnt significant skills and knowledge in all of the four trade/ entrepreneurship subjects offered to them in Kano State. In addition, the quantity of products students produced for sale was identified as limited/small. This study recommends, among other things, that the government should provide enough practical facilities to boost students' production for sale.
ICT has permeated all spheres of human endeavours in this 21st century of information-driven society, education sector inclusive. Consequence upon this development, teachers as stakeholders are not left behind in the aspect of training and retraining to acquire relevant skills in the usage of ICT in order to be ICT-compliant and use same in their teaching methodologies. This paper, therefore, examined ICT competency of serving teachers for quality instructional service delivery in Aminu Saleh College of Education, Azare, Bauchi State, Nigeria. The study adopted survey research design as questionnaire was used as an instrument for data collection from the sampled serving teachers. The questionnaire used for this research was structured on three components of ICT: Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation, Internet Usage and Usage of projector/interactive multimedia board. Simple random sampling technique was used to draw sample of 196 from the population of entire academics totally 436 currently serving in the area of the study using sample size table provided by Research Advisor. The instrument used for the study was validated by the specialists in the fields of Computer Science and Measurement and Evaluation. The reliability index of the instrument yielded 0.82 using Crobanch alpha reliability technique. The results revealed that academics have skills in the usage of Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation for effective instructional service delivery. Besides, it was found out that the serving teachers possess technical-know-how in Internet usage for gathering materials for their lessons, but lack skills on how to operate projector/interactive multimedia board for their lectures. It was also discovered that age, gender and years of experience had significant influence on the level of ICT skills acquisition and usage of serving teachers. However, there was no association between educational qualification of serving teachers and their level of ICT skills acquisition. The study recommends that Bauchi state government, in conjunction with College authority, should organize seminar on how to use and operate projector as well as interactive multimedia board for quality instructional service delivery by the lecturers.
While acknowledging the epochal nature of the educational reforms introduced by the Obasanjo administration, especially at the basic educational level, it is important to note that teachers who are the major stake-holder, had not been properly carried along in the formulation and implementation of the reform. This study therefore, examined the extent of basic school teachers' involvement in the reforms at the basic educational level in Nigeria. Findings in the study showed that the level of basic school teachers' involvement in the reform was still very low. It was presumed that the reforms may not be successful without adequate enlightenment and involvement of teachers who are the grass root implementers of the education policy. The paper has suggested strategies towards enhancing teachers' involvement in the successful implementation of the reforms of basic education in Ilorin, in particular, and other parts of the Nigeria in general.
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