RATING OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL’S PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS TRAINING AND MOTIVATION STRATEGIES FOR JOB CREATION IN POST COVID-19 ERA

Abstract

The poor performance of secondary school students in business subjects necessitates this study to rate secondary school management entrepreneurship skill training and motivation as strategies for effective teaching of the subjects in secondary schools in Cross River State. Two research questions directed the study and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significant. Survey research design was adopted and the entire population of 200 secondary school teachers of entrepreneurship education in the area was used without sampling. A 5-pooint rating scale questionnaire with 30 items which was validated by three experts was used for data collection. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to analysed the data which yielded a value 0.78. Data collected were analysed with mean and standard deviation to determine the closeness of the respondents’ mean while z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Results show that the respondents rated the two strategies as effectively utilized and did not differ significantly in their views as a result of gender and years of teaching experience. Therefore, the researcher concluded that teacher related factors may be disengaging with students’ poor performance in the entrepreneurship.