Benue State University, Makurdi

Internship and Students’ Acquisition of functional skills in Benue State University, Makurdi

Bua Felix Terhile, PhD Benue State University, Makurdi,
Shaayongo Benjamin Toryila Benue State University, Makurdi

Abstract

This paper investigated internship and students’ acquisition of functional skills in Benue State University, Makurdi. Three research questions were raised while three hypotheses were formulated and tested at 005 level of significance for the study. Descriptive survey design was used for the study. The population of the study comprised all the 2017/2018 academic session B.Ed. Educational Management students in the Department of Educational Foundations, Benue State University, Makurdi totaling 230. Convenience sampling technique was used to sample all the 230 students for the study. The instrument for data collection was a 30 item Internship And Students Acquisition of Functional Skills Questionnaire (ISAFSQ) developed by the researchers. It was validated by two educational research experts from the department of Educational Foundations, Benue State University, Makurdi. Data collected were analyzed using mean ratings and standard deviations to answer research questions. The analysis was done using item mean with a criterion mean of 2.50 as a basis for accepting or not accepting the responses for a particular item in the questionnaire. Chi-square was used to test the three hypotheses of the study at 0.05 level of significance. Findings showed that internship experience, factors militating against internship proggramme and measures to improve internship programme have significant influence on students’ acquisition of functional skills. The study therefore recommended among others that, the University management and the Department of Educational Foundations from which educational management is a unit course of study should strengthened the implementation of internship programme to provide students with opportunity to acquire functional skills to perform effectively and that, this effort should be made to address those factors militating against internship programme.

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