LECTURERS’SKILLSASCORRELATESOFOFFICETECHNOLOGYAND MANAGEMENTSTUDENTS’ACADEMICPERFORMANCEINCOLLEGESOF EDUCATION

Abstract

The study was investigated the Lecturers Effective Communication and ICT Skills on Academic Performance of Office Technology and Management Students in Colleges of Education, Southwest, Nigeria. The specific purposes are to determine the level of the Lecturers Effective Communication and ICT Skills on Academic Performance of Office Technology and Management Students in Oyo State Colleges of Education. The study adopted descriptive survey design based on correlational type. The population of the study was 71 OTM lecturers and 410 NCE III students. The study sample consisted of 46 OTM lecturers and 300 NCE III students. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled Lecturers Effective Communication and ICT Skills on Academic Performance of Office Technology and Management Students (LECICTSAPOTM). The instrument was validated by three expert lecturers and reliability coefficient of 0.83 was obtained for the instrument using Kuder Richason reliability method. Mean and standard deviation was employed to analyze the data to answer the research questions. The two null hypotheses were tested using Persons Product Moment Correlation Coefficient statistics at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that lecturers effective communication skills to a very high level (mean 3.49), and utilized ICT skills to a very high level (3.41). The findings revealed that there was no significant correlation between the mean responses of effective communication skills r (344) .048 (.716) p> 0.05 and ICT skills r (344) .048 (716) p> 0.05. It was concluded that lecturers’ qualities and skills is very essential to make OTM students more valuable in the world of work. The study among others recommended that qualities and skills established by this study should be implemented for promoting quality teaching and learning in OTM programme.