Impediments to Quality Research in Business Education in Nigeria Tertiary Institutions
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2013-12-17
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Abstract
Research is a systematic investigation towards increasing the sum of human knowledge. Research in business
education is aimed at increasing knowledge in the discipline and providing solutions to problems relating to
curriculum, program evaluation and overall improvement in the teaching and learning process. There is no doubt that
very high quality research in business education would lead to improvement in educational practice which Nigeria
needs direly in order to break into the bracket of the twenty most developed economies in the year 2020. This study
explored the impediments to the quality of business education research in Nigeria tertiary institutions. The researcher
constructed 32 questionnaire items from research reports relevant to the study. The questionnaires were validated
using Product Moment Coefficient which yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.81. A total of 159 questionnaire items
were administered on 96, 38 and 25 business educators from Colleges of Education, Polytechnics and universities in
Nigeria respectively and all the questionnaires were completed and retrieved. The Research Question “what are the
impediments to the quality of business education research in Nigeria tertiary institutions?” was answered using mean
rating and standard deviation. The Hypothesis of no significant difference in the mean responses of business
educators from Colleges of Education, Polytechnics and Universities regarding the impediments to the quality of
business education research was tested using Analysis of Variance. The study revealed that all the constructs studied
constituted impediments to the quality of business education research in Nigeria tertiary institutions. It was
recommended, among others, that researchers in the field of business education should ensure that only quality
information is used in the research process so that research results would significantly influence changes in the
directions desired.