BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF GENERIC SKILLS DEVELOPMENTIN A HETEROGENEOUS CLASSROOM IN NORTHERN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES

Abstract

This study examines the Business Education Students’ perception of generic skills development in a
heterogeneous classroom in northern Nigerian Universities. The study was guided by 4 objectives, 4
research questions, and 4 hypotheses. A survey design was adopted for the study. The target population
was 233 final-year Business Education Students. A questionnaire was used for data collection. Three
experts validated the questionnaire. The Cronbach alpha reliability of the instrument was >0.7. The data
collected were analyzed using mean scores to answer the research questions and ANOVA was used to test
the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. It was recommended that; there is a need for lecturers to
design ways of incorporating the component generic skills into their teaching method sand learning
strategies.