TEACHING STRATEGIES AND STUDENTS ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN BUSINESS EDUCATION

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.1    Background to the Study

Education occurs at several levels, including secondary education and higher education or university education. Inyang (1998) mentioned that Business Education is taught as one of the basic subjects that will enable students acquire further skills which are common and fundamental to all personal and occupational activities. Business activity affects the daily lives of all Nigerians as they work, spend, save, invest, travel and play. It influences jobs, incomes and opportunities for personal enterprise. Ekanem (2008) emphasized that Business has significantly affected the standard of living and quality of life of people, and on the environment in which they live.

Eventually, all students will encounter the world of business, whether they work in urban or rural areas. They must be prepared to engage in business activity with confidence and competence. Fraser, Walberg, Welch and Hattie (1987) lamented that quantitative synthesis of over 3,000 students showed that some educational variables are effective in fostering students’ learning and performance. These are ability, development, motivation, attitude, quality of instruction and environmental factors which include the home, classroom, peer group and the mass media. Academic performance of junior secondary students in Business Studies can be differentiated by many factors as students have many responsibilities with regard to their learning. However, taking responsibility for their own progress and learning is an important part of education for all students, regardless of their circumstances, hence this research study.

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Tebabal & Kahssay (2011) are of the opinion that facilitating process of knowledge transmission; teachers should apply appropriate teaching methods that best suit specific objectives.  Hightower et al. (2011) is of the opinion that many teaching practitioners widely applied teacher-centered methods to impart knowledge to learners comparative to student-centered methods. Until today, questions about the effectiveness of teaching methods on student learning have consistency raised considerable interest in the thematic field of educational research

Moreover, research on teaching and learning constantly endeavour to examine the extent to which different teaching methods enhance growth in student learning.

Quite remarkably, (Adunola, 2011) linked poor academic achievement by the majority students to application of ineffective teaching methods by teachers to impact knowledge to learners. Substantial research on the effectiveness of teaching methods indicates that the quality of teaching is often reflected by the achievements of learners. According to Ayeni (2011), teaching is a process that involves bringing about desirable changes in learners so as to achieve specific outcomes. In order for the method used for teaching to be effective. Adunola (2011) maintains that teachers need to be conversant with numerous teaching strategies that take recognition of the magnitude of complexity of the concepts to be covered.

Edward (2001) emphasized that teaching strategies if based on real life experience help learners to transformed knowledge or information into their personal knowledge which they can apply in different situations. Harfield, Davies, Hede, Panko and Kenley (2007) by quoting Prince (2004) say that active learning method is different from traditional method of teaching on two different perspective. First, active involvement of students and secondly, active collaboration among students that is having the ability of working together with other learners to achieve a common goal.

According to Harfield, Davies, Hede, Panko and Kenley (2007), activity-based teaching strategy “frequently involves the use of manipulative material”. Meaningful learning, according to Churchill (2003) an activity-based learning help learners in various ways.

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Since this century is witnessing rapid change in development, teachers have to adopt proper teaching methods for applied in Business Education. This perspective should be firmly established in the minds of curriculum designers and educational decision-makers, especially when the activities and experiments relates to the teaching material for effective learning. However, effective teaching requires the teacher to step out of the realm of personal experience and step into the world of the learners (Adepaja, 2006).

It is the learner who must be engaged for effective learning to occur. Some educationists believe that science subjects cannot be effectively taught without experiments, which is true because learners really recall what they did by themselves. That is why modern educational trends emphasize laboratory activities and experiments, because the laboratory is physically associated to science topics that entail practical experiments. Recent years have witnessed numerous discoveries and inventions through experimentation, which is vital element of science basics. Despite these numerous claims by researchers as to the effect of activity-based learning on students academic performance, yet one discovers that in Nigeria in general and Akwa Ibom State in particular, that there is a downtrend in performance among students with respect to Basic Science. Therefore, the moves by the researcher to ask could instructional strategies affect the academic performance of students in Business Studies particularly in secondary schools in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area.

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1.2    Statement of the Problem

Education is seen as an instrument per excellence for the development of a nation as recorded in National Policy on Education (2013). Business Education involves teaching students the fundamentals, theories, and processes of business. It also enable students acquire further skills which are common and fundamental to all personal and occupational activities.

It has been observed that the teaching strategies mostly used in teaching in secondary schools are not effective for learning and thus negate students’ academic performance.

Suboptimal academic performance by the majority students at higher education level has largely been cited to be the result of ineffective teaching methods by the instructors. It is against this background that the researcher developed a great interest to conduct a study to find out ways in which teaching strategies could influence students’ academic achievement in Business Education in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area.

1.3    Purpose of the Study

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of teaching strategies on student’s academic achievement in Business Education....

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