Business Studies and Employability Skills Development in Junior Secondary Schools in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State

Autor/in	Oluwalola, Felicia Kikelomo
Titel	Business Studies and Employability Skills Development in Junior Secondary Schools in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State
Quelle	In: eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, (2019), (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2158-9232
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Business Education; Junior High Schools; Junior High School Students; Job Skills; Employment Potential; Skill Development; Junior High School Teachers; Knowledge Level; Teacher Attitudes; Employer Attitudes; Basic Skills; Computer Literacy; Thinking Skills; Office Occupations; Accounting; Office Practice; Marketing; Nigeria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Wirtschaftserziehung; Wirtschaftspädagogik; Sekundarstufe I; Junior High Schools; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Produktive Fertigkeit; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Wissensbasis; Lehrerverhalten; Arbeitgeberinteresse; Basic skill; Grundfertigkeit; Computerkenntnisse; Denkfähigkeit; Clerical occupations; Büroberuf; Abrechnung; Buchführung; Buchhaltung; Bürowesen
Abstract	The study examined business studies and employability skills development in junior secondary schools in Ilorin metropolis Kwara State. Five research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. A survey research designed was adopted for the study. The population of this study comprises all the 4570 teachers in all the private and public junior secondary schools and the employers in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State. However the target population includes all the 1305 business studies related teachers in all the junior secondary schools in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State. The sample of the study includes 250 teachers in all the junior secondary schools and 250 employers in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State. A structured questionnaire titled "Business Studies Questionnaire" (BSQ) and "Employability Skill Development" (ESDQ) were used to obtain relevant data. Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation while inferential statistics of Pearson Product-Moment correlation was used to test the hypotheses formulated at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that level of knowledge acquisition in business studies was rated high by business studies teachers, employability skills level of junior secondary schools students were rated high by the employers of labour also, there was positive relationship exists between accounting, office practice, marketing and employability skills development in junior secondary school Ilorin Metropolis Kwara State. The study concluded that the students that graduated within Ilorin metropolis are possessed with basic soft skills; digital, technical and analytical skills required that could make them employable after graduation. Based on the findings it was recommended among others that there should be provisions of qualified teachers who can instill the right knowledge, innovations, skills, and attitude to the students for them to be employable in the outer world. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01