Level of Lecturers’ Possessed Leadership Instructional
Competencies in Implementing OTM Curriculum in Public
Tertiary Institutions in Rivers State for Acquisition of
Employability Skills Among Students

Prof. Justina I. Ezenwafor (FABEN); Philip Festus Ukata (MABEN)

doi:https://doi.org/10.56201/ijee.v8.no8.2022.pg23.35

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Level of Lecturers’ Possessed Leadership Instructional Competencies in Implementing OTM Curriculum in Public Tertiary Institutions in Rivers State for Acquisition of Employability Skills Among Students

Prof. Justina I. Ezenwafor (FABEN), Philip Festus Ukata (MABEN)

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The study on level of lecturers’ possessed leadership instructional competencies in implementing OTM curriculum in tertiary institutions in Rivers State was necessitated by the need to ensure that students adequately acquire leadership skills for effective performance in employment upon graduation. One research question guided the study and two null hypotheses were tested. Descriptive survey research design was used in the study. Population of all 69 OTM lecturers in all five public tertiary institutions in Rivers State was studied without sampling because the size was not large. A five-point rating scale questionnaire containing 13 items with options of very high level, high level, moderate level, low level and very low level and validated by experts in the field was used for data collection. The instrument was administered to 20 OTM lecturers from the University of Uyo who were not part of the study population and measure of internal consistency method with Cronbach alpha was used to establish the reliability of the instrument which yielded a reliability coefficient value of 0.92. Sixty-five out of the 69 copies of instrument administered were retrieved and used for the study. The arithmetic mean was used to answer the research question while Analysis of Variance (One-way ANOVA) and t-test were used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. A Tukey Post Hoc Test of multiple comparisons was further conducted. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25.0 was used for data analysis. It was found among others that OTM lecturers possessed high level of leadership competencies for implementing the curriculum. Based on the findings, it was concluded that level of leadership competencies possessed by lecturers is not a causative factor to the lack of employability skills among OTM graduates from the institutions. It was, therefore, recommended among others that Heads of Departments of OTM programme should encourage l

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Leadership competenciescurriculumcurriculum implementationemployability skillsOffice Technology and Managementpublic tertiary institutions.

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Level of Lecturers’ Possessed Leadership Instructional Competencies in Implementing OTM Curriculum in Public Tertiary Institutions in Rivers State for Acquisition of Employability Skills Among Students

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