STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP COURSE IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIA
Keywords:
Strategies; Effective Teaching; Entrepreneurship Courses; Tertiary Institutions. NigeriaAbstract
The study assessed the strategies for effective delivery of entrepreneurship course contents in south-south Nigerian tertiary institutions. The study population comprised all the 215 entrepreneurship education lecturers in the target institutions (universities, polytechnics and colleges of education). No sampling was done because the population size was manageable. Three research questions guided the study. Two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study and a 39 item statement was used as instrument for data collection. The instrument was validated by three experts and the reliability was tested using. Cronbach Alpha and a value of 0.89 was obtained. The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics. Mean () and standard deviation (SD) were used to answer the research questions. Independent t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significant. The findings revealed that critical thinking strategy, case study strategy and planning strategy were effective means of delivery.
Entrepreneurship course contents in tertiary institutions in South-South Nigeria. Based the findings it was recommended that more entrepreneurship education in their curriculum, various institutions should train and retrain entrepreneurship teachers to make them to be more experienced as experienced teachers will make their teaching more effective, and teachers should make their teaching more practically-oriented so as to make more meaning to entrepreneurship education.
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