INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES AND SELF-EMPLOYMENT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT OF UPPER-BASIC BUSINESS STUDIES STUDENTS IN LAGOS STATE
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2021-02
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Ishola, N.A
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Potchefstroom Journal of Education & Social Science
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This study evaluated the implementation of Business Studies curriculum at the junior secondary school level in Lagos State with a view to identifying the root cause of the problem. Some of the specific objectives were to determine the appropriateness of the curriculum, assess the infrastructure and equipment available in schools, find out the teaching methods used and assess the.
entrepreneurial skills students have acquired with which they could create selfemployment. Adopting the descriptive survey research design, Education District II of Lagos State formed the scope of this study. All the Business Studies teachers and students in the District mentioned above served as the population of this study and total sample of four hundred and twenty four (424) Using both stratified to select the eight public upper-basic schools from the population, simple random sampling techniques was used to select four hundred (400) upper-basic Business Studies students as sample for the study while twenty-four (24) Business Studies teachers were also selected randomly as sample for this study. Data collection instruments used were Questionnaire with r=092 reliability coefficient. Checklist and Observation Schedule while Mean, Percentages, Pie-Chart and Bar-Chart statistical tools were used for the analyses. The findings of this study showed that resources available to teacher students at upper basic schools are not adequate, obsolete and malfunction, required skills are not possessed by the students. Most schools lacked adequate facilities and equipment needed for effective teaching and learning of Business Studies. Therefore, necessary and urgent actions must be taken by all the stakeholders involved to provide necessary instructional resources needed for the students’ acquisition of self-employment skills and competences in upper-basic schools for the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) ofpoverty eradication and zero hunger in Nigeria
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Ishola N.A, Amoda M.B (2021) INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES AND SELF-EMPLOYMENT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT OF UPPER-BASIC BUSINESS STUDIES STUDENTS IN LAGOS STATE Potchefstroom Journal of Education & Social Science