JOURNAL OF LIAONING TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
(NATURAL SCIENCE EDITION)
LIAONING GONGCHENG JISHU DAXUE XUEBAO (ZIRAN KEXUE BAN)
辽宁工程技术大学学报（自然科学版）
IMPACT OF TEACHERS’ COMPETENCE ON THE TEACHING OF BUSINESS STUDIES IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ADO EKITI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EKITI STATE
Enijuni, Anthony Tola (Ph.D)
Abstract
The study examined the impact of teacher competence on the teaching of business studies to junior secondary school students in Ado Ekiti local government area of Ekiti State. This study adopted a descriptive research design, surveying 250 teachers from ten selected secondary schools in the Ado Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The sample for the study comprised 200 business subjects teachers purposively selected in the selected secondary schools. The study utilized a questionnaire named 'Questionnaire on the Impact of Teachers' Competence on the Teaching and Learning of Business Studies' (QITCTLBS) to gather pertinent data. The instrument for data collection was subjected to face and content validity by two experts from the College of Education, Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science, and Technology, Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti State. The reliability of the instrument was tested using test-retest methods on 10 teachers from two secondary schools not included in the main study. Pearson product moment correlation was used to test the reliability of the instrument, and 0.98 was obtained. The research questions were answered using the mean and standard deviation. The hypotheses were tested using chi-square. The two hypotheses were tested at the 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that planning instruction competency has a significant impact on effective teaching of business studies in junior secondary schools. In junior secondary schools, classroom instruction competency has a significant impact on effective business studies teaching. The study concluded that because planning instructional and classroom instruction competencies have a significant impact on effective teaching of business studies, junior high school students in Ado local government greatly benefit from the business studies lessons taught by qualified teachers. Therefore, the study recommended that the school authority should see the need to regularly contribute to the development of teachers’ competency in order to help them improve their functionality in the teaching job.
Keywords: Planning of Instruction, Classroom Instruction, Teachers, Competence.