FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MASS FAILURE OF STUDENTS IN BUSINESS EDUCATION

FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MASS FAILURE OF STUDENTS IN BUSINESS EDUCATION

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

In the Nigeria national policy on education (1981) it stated that school education should “equip students to live attentively in our modern age of business education”. In accordance with this aim of education, Boge (1979) has this to say, “one major educational problem is preparing the young people to cope with the intellectual and cultural environment characterized by rapid changes”, it is assumed that these young people should have some basic understanding for the English language.

Business education has continued to occupy its separate place and some time, it is often neglected in some schools even where the various branches of English language are taught they are done without regard for the basic requirement needed in spite of the effort made during the present decade by the federal and state government of Nigeria to give Business Education subject their role in education note much has been achieved in some schools and local government area. The effect of the deficiency in teaching Business Education in schools are particularly evident in developing countries such as Nigeria

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

To which extent has the number of students per laboratory in Nigeria affected the effective teaching of Business Education?

In what way does inadequate use of instructional materials makes ineffective the teaching of Business Education?

Could ineffective teaching lead to the students’ poor performance in Business Education?

Can bad attitude of teachers towards work affect the effective teaching of Business Education?

Could lack of instructional materials cause ineffective teaching of the teachers?

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

How does lack of instructional material affect the effective teaching of Business Education?

How does students’ attitude towards the subject (Business Education) affect their performance in the teaching of Business Education?

Does teacher’s qualification also affect students’ performance in effective teaching of Business Education?

How teaching methods in Business Education does affects students’ performance ineffective teaching of Business Education?

HYPOTHESIS

Students attitude Business Education affects their performance

Teacher’s qualification also affect the students performance in Business Education

Teacher’s teaching method in Business Education affect students performance

PURPOSE OF STUDY

The purpose of this study is to find out the solutions to the factors associated with mass failure of students in Business Education.

SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY

The teaching of Business Education has not been as effective as it ought to be. It is therefore necessary to diagnose the various factors responsible for the mass failure of students and proper means by which the anomalies could be arrested. The importance of Business Education in the life of man need to be over emphasized, therefore if the subject is not effectively taught, the rudiment that are necessary for development of the basic concept of English language would be lacking at the secondary schools level and this could permeate the other state of the nation’s educational level. It is believed that the importance of Business Education if well understood and all the factors responsible for its unhealthy development are quickly nipped on the bud it would be possible to build a Business Education culture oriented society which will augur well for the healthy development of the nation  

LIMITATION OF STUDY

To carry out a project such as this there are bound to be procedural and methodological flaws inherent in the item developed human biases are likely to aggravate the internal weakness that are likely to exist however, conscious effort will be made to evolve method that will control for such extraneous influences in order to ensure the validity and reliability of the study

 It is also expected that distance, times, finance and lack of human co-operation can pose serious threats to the successful execution of this project to this end it is hoped that every effort will be made to minimize, if not totally eliminating such threats and steps taken be highlighted to serve as a guide to those who may wish to replicate the project.