ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY AND CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT ASPEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCIES REQUIRED OF BUSINESS EDUCATORS FOR TEACHINGENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN CROSS RIVER STATE

Abstract

The study was to assess the pedagogical competencies required of Business Educators for teaching
Entrepreneurship Education in tertiary institutions in Cross River State, Nigeria. Two specific purposes guided the
study and were further developed into two research questions and two hypotheses. Adescriptive survey design was
adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised eighty-nine (89) Business Educators (53 male and 36
female) teaching entrepreneurship education in four (4) tertiary institutions in Cross River State. The entire
population was used because of its manageable size, therefore there was not sample for the study. The instrument
for data collection was a researcher’s self-designed 4-point rating scale title: Questionnaire on pedagogical
competencies for Teaching Entrepreneurship Education (QOPCEE). The instrument was subjected to validation by
three (3) experts and further tested for reliability which produced a coefficient of 0.84. Collected data were analysed
using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and t-test to test the null hypotheses. Results
revealed that the respondents strongly agreed that educational technological management competencies are
required of Business Educators for teaching Entrepreneurship Education. Also, there is no significant difference in
the mean responses of rural and urban based respondents on educational technology management as a pedagogical
competence required of Business Educators for teaching Entrepreneurship Education. Alsothe respondents strongly
agreed that classroom management pedagogical competencies are required of Business Educators for teaching
Entrepreneurship Education. In addition, there is no significant difference in the mean responses of male and female
respondents on classroom management as a pedagogical competence required of Business Educators for teaching
Entrepreneurship Education.It was concluded that it isimperative that education technology and classroom
management as pedagogical competencies should be develop by Business Educators for the effective teaching of
Entrepreneurship Education in tertiary institutions in Cross River State. It was recommended among others that
school management should supervise handling of educational technology facilities to ensure their sustainability.