A Study of Evaluation Techniques and the Implementation of the Curriculum Content of Secretarial Education in Colleges of Education in South-South, Nigeria

Abstract

This research paper specifically investigated evaluation techniques and the implementation of the curriculum content of secretarial education in selected colleges of education in south-south, Nigeria. Two research questions and a corresponding one hypothesis was formulated to be tested. The survey research design was adopted for this study. The population of the study comprised 77 secretarial education teachers and 77 secretarial education teachers were used as the sample for the study. The instrument used was the structured questionnaire and it was validated by experts in the field. The test re-test method of reliability was used in ascertaining the reliability of the instrument and it yielded a co-efficient of 0.82. The mean, standard deviation and t-test were used in analyzing the data collated and some of the findings include: evaluation techniques were moderately utilized by teachers. One of the major recommendations advanced in this paper was that NCCE should develop standardized and appropriate evaluation techniques for us.

Keywords: Secretarial Education, Evaluation techniques and Curriculum