Sixteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

There have been growing concerns recently about the quality of education in Nigeria especially the teacher education. The training of teachers is more theoretical than practical and teaching has become complex with different classroom tasks to be performed using varied strategies and assessment methods. It is against this background to fill the gap between theory and what is practised that mentoring practices of Business Education Lecturers in Colleges of Education in Delta State of Nigeria became the focus of this study. The population of this study is comprised 110 business education lecturers of four Colleges of Education in Delta State. No sampling was carried as the population was manageable. Two research questions were raised to guide the study and two hypotheses were tested. Study design was descriptive survey design. A questionnaire which was validated by experts and with reliability coefficient of 0.78 was used as instrument for data collection. Arithmetic mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data in respect of the research questions while t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this study revealed that mentoring practices of Business Education Lecturers in Colleges of Education in Delta State of Nigeria is effective. It was recommended among others that mentoring practices of Business Education Lecturers should be formalised in such a way that every newly employed lecturer becomes a beneficiary.