International Journal of Academic Research in Education and Review

Vol. 9(5), pp. 242-247, June 2021

ISSN: 2360-7866

DOI: 10.14662/IJARER2021.230

 

Full Length Research

 

 

Evaluation of Social Media Utilization in Teaching Business Education in Some Selected Colleges of Education in South –South, Nigeria

 

Oyenike, O. Erimieleagbon

 

Department of library and Information Science, University of Delta, Agbor, Delta State

 

Accepted 10 June 2021

Abstract

Abstract: The study evaluated the utilization of social media in the teaching of business education in selected Colleges of Education in South -south having discovered the poor performance of students in Business Education. Survey design was adopted in the study. Three research questions were raised and answered while one null hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population of the study consisted of 41 business education lecturers. An instrument titled QUSMED was used for data collection. The instrument was face validated by three experts. Three instruments yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.75. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The findings from the study revealed that social media are not adequately available in Colleges of Education in South -south. The study also revealed that male and female business education lecturers were not significantly different in their ratings regarding availability of social media in Colleges of Education in South -south.

 

Keywords: Social media, Business, Education, Utilization, and Technology

Paper type: research