Lecturers’ Competencies in The Teaching of Entrepreurship Education in Tertiary Institutions in Ebonyi State

Abstract

The study investigated the lecturers’ competencies in the teaching entrepreneurship education in tertiary institutions in Ebonyi Stat. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Among the participants in the research were 188 lecturers from Ebonyi State University's Department of Education in Abakaliki, 197 lecturers from Alex Ekwueme Federal University in Ndufu Alike Ikwo, Ebonyi State, and 126 lecturers from Ebonyi State College of Education, Ikwo and 136 lecturers from Uwana Federal Polythenics, Afikpo. This gave a total of 647 male and female lecturers. The full population was used; hence no sampling was performed. The instrument for data collection is the researchers self-developed questionnaire titled, “Competencies Possessed for Teaching of Entrepreneurship Education Questionnaire Scale (CPTEEQS). It is a four-point scale instrument of Very High Extent (VHE), High Extent (HE), Low Extent (LE) and Very Low Extent (VLE) rated 4, 3, 2 and 1 respectively. The instrument was validated by experts from Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki; specifically, from Administration and Planning and Measurement and Evaluation Unit of Science Education departments. test-retest method was used to analyze the responses of the respondents where Cronbach Alpha was applied and yielded an index of 0.60. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviations, while t-test statistic was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Any mean score from 2.50 and above was considered very high and high extent, while any mean score from 2.49 and below is adjudged low and very low extent. One of the recommendations was that government should make organization of workshops and seminars on management and teaching of entrepreneurship education an annual event so that lecturers will become abreast with the new trend in management.