AVAILABILITY, ADEQUACY AND UTILIZATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT OF BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH-SOUTH, NIGERIA

Abstract

The need to ensure effective teaching of entrepreneurship in business education necessitated this study on Availability, Adequacy and Utilization of Instructional Resources for Entrepreneurship Development in business education in universities in South-South Nigeria. Three research questions guided the study and three null hypothesis were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Descriptive survey research design was employed for the study. The population consisted of 141 business education lecturers from 10 universities in South-South Nigeria. The entire population was also taken as the sampling size since it was not too large. The instruments for data collection were a five-point rating scale questionnaire titled Availability, Adequacy and Utilization of Instructional Resources for Entrepreneurship Development in business education (AAUIREDBE). The questionnaire was validated by three experts. Method of internal consistency was used to determine the reliability of the instrument using Cronbach Alpha with SPSS and reliability coefficients of 0.762 and 0.761 were obtained for the two sections with an overall reliability coefficient of 0.782. Simple linear regression statistics was used to analyse data for the research questions and for testing the null hypothesis. Findings of the study revealed that availability, adequacy and utilization of instructional resources predicts entrepreneurship skill development. The study concluded that availability, adequacy and utilization of instructional resources significantly predicts entrepreneurship development in business education in public universities in South-South Nigeria. Based on the findings and conclusion, it was recommended among others that the government should increase the subvention funds to this programme so that adequate equipment and facilities needed are properly procured. Also, the Nigerian university commission should provide a viable curriculum that will promote relevant and adequate instructional resources.