LECTURERS’ QUALITIES AS CORRELATES OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF OFFICE TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT STUDENTS IN OYO STATE COLLEGES OF EDUCATION
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Office Technology and Management is a practical way of developing knowledge, ability and skills in learners. As such this study therefore, investigated lecturers’ qualities and skills as correlates of academic performance of Office Technology and Management in Colleges of Education, Oyo State. The specific purposes are to determine the level of the knowledge of the subject matter, lecturers’ qualifications, teaching strategies on students academic performances. 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 Qualities and Skills as Correlates of Academic Performance of Office Technology and Management (LQSCAPOTM). 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 answer the research questions. The two null hypotheses were tested using Persons Product Moment Correlation Coefficient statistics at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that there was significant correlation between the mean responses of lecturers’ knowledge of the subject matter and academic performance (r ({344]) .064 (.625) p> 0.05, between lecturers qualifications r ([344]  .134 (.308) p> 0.05, lecturers teaching strategies r (344) .130 (.321) p> 0.05. The study concludes that lecturers’ qualities of knowledge of subject matter and qualifications would help improve the students’ academic performance. The study among others recommended that lecturer’s qualities should be enhanced through training established for enhancing academic performance and promotion of quality teaching and learning in OTM programme.
Keywords: Lecturers’ Qualities, Academic Performance, Office Technology and ManagementÂ
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