Business Educators’ Level of Awareness and Utilisation of Assistive Technologies in Business Education Programme in Tertiary Institutions in Delta State, Nigeria
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This study explored business educators’ level of awareness and utilization of assistive technologies in business education programme in tertiary institutions in Delta State. Two research questions were raised and four null hypotheses were tested for the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. The entire population of one hundred and twenty-four (124) business educators in the four public-owned Colleges of Education and one university offering business education programme in Delta State was studied without sampling. A validated five point rating scale questionnaire containing 14 items was used for data collection. Cronbach Alpha method was used to establish the reliability of the instrument which yielded coefficients of 0.81 and 0.73, respectively for two clusters of the instrument with an overall coefficient of 0.77. The researcher administered the instrument to the respondents in their offices with the help of five research assistants. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that business educators are aware of and utilized assistive technologies in business education programme in tertiary institutions in Delta State to a low level and very low level. Business educators do not differ significantly in their mean ratings on their level of awareness and utilization of assistive technologies in business education programme in tertiary institutions in Delta State based on years of teaching experience and location. It was concluded that the necessary technological, infrastructural, instructional and motivational frameworks that will facilitates the integration of assistive technologies are missing in tertiary institutions running business education programme in Delta State. Therefore, it was recommended among others that, curriculum developers should design inclusive education concepts in order to facilitate the provision, awareness and utilization of assistive technologies in business education programme across all levels of tertiary institutions.
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