Teachers Quality and Business Education Students Entrepreneurial Skills Development in Public Universities in South West, Nigeria
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2023
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Lead City University Ibadan
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This study examined the impact of teacher quality on Business Education students' entrepreneurship
skills development in public universities in Southwest, Nigeria. The study examined the extent to
which teacher quality has helped to build students entrepreneurship skills. Two hypotheses were
formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Descriptive survey research design method was
adopted for the study. The population of the study was 100 to 400 level Business Education students
from 11 public universities in Southwest offering Business Education as a course of study and multi stage sampling technique was adopted to draw the sample size. Firstly, simple random sampling
technique was adopted to select four universities from the population of study while purposive
sampling technique was used to draw the sample size of 400 participants from the population. A four
rating structured online questionnaire titled “Teacher Quality and Business Education Students
Entrepreneurial Skills Development Questionnaire” (TQBESESDQ) was employed to gather data for
the study. Person Product Moment Correlation (r) was used to test the hypotheses. Results from the
findings revealed among others that instructional methods adopted by teachers have a great effect on
the development of students' entrepreneurship skills. Based on the findings, the study recommended
that instructional methods adopted by teachers should be tailored towards improving self-reliance
skills of students, teachers should be constantly trained and more qualified teachers should be
employed in order to meet students' needs.
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Entrepreneurial skills, Entrepreneurial Mind-set, Instructional Methods, Teacher Quality