EVALUATION OFTHE TEACHING OF STRATEGY IN BUSINESS EDUCATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS IN KOGI STATE POLYTECHNIC

Abstract

The transformation of entrepreneurship skills and drive among studentshas been one of the major government concerns globally in recent time including Nigeria. The strategies to effectively implement this has been via deliberate effective teaching through direct teaching strategies, interactive teaching strategies and practical operational teaching strategies in most of the tertiary institutions including Kogi State Polytechnic Lokoja. Thus, in other to evaluate whether or not these strategies have been helpful in providing the needed result, the study merely used the instrument of a structured questionnaire in eliciting responses from a purposeful sample population of 200 hundred students of the HND/ND of the Business Administration department of Kogi State Polytechnic. Data gathered are subjected to a Likert scale measurement and analyze using the Spearman correlation analysis. Result showed that all three variables are statistically significant in explaining entrepreneurship skill transformation but with a weak rho. It was concluded that there are other possible concerns other than the one used in this study responsible for the weak coefficient among the variables. As such, a stronger but deliberate tripartite –lecturer-student-government arrangement for optimal result is recommended.