Benue State University, Makurdi

MENTORING PRACTICES OF BUSINESS EDUCATION LECTURERS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCTION IN DELTA STATE OF NIGERIA

Josephine Obiageli Nwachokor, PhD^*
School of Business Education Federal College of Education (Technical) Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria

Abstract

There has been growing concern about the quality of education in Nigeria, especially teacher education. The training of teachers is more theoretical than practical and teaching has become complex with different classroom tasks to be performed using varied strategies and assessment methods. It is against this background to fill the gap between theory and practicals that the mentoring practices of Business Education lecturers in Colleges of Education in Delta State of Nigeria has become the focus of this study. Survey design was employed. The population of the study comprised 110 Business Education lecturers in four Colleges of Education in Delta State. No sampling was carried as the population was of manageable size. Two research questions were raised to guide the study, while two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. A questionnaire which was validated by experts and with reliability coefficient of 0.78 was used for data collection. Arithmetic mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, while t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this study revealed that mentoring practices in Colleges of Education in Delta State of Nigeria are not effective. It was recommended among others that mentoring of less experienced Business Education lecturers should be formalized in such a way that every freshly employed graduate becomes a beneficiary.