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SCHOOL VARIABLES AND STUDENTS' ACQUISITION OF EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN CALABAR METROPOLIS, CROSS RIVER STATE
| Abstract: This study investigated the composite and relative effect of some school variables on students’ acquisition of employability skills in secondary schools in Calabar Metropolis, Cross River State. Ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study. One research question was posed and one null hypothesis formulated to guide the study. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select the sample of four hundred (400) from population of three thousand, three hundred and seventy nine (3,379) senior secondary (SS3) students schooling intwenty-two public secondary schools in the study area. Data was collected using researchers’ designed 30-item research instrument titled “School Variables and Employability Skill Acquisition Questionnaire” (SVESAQ). The obtained data were analyzed using multiple regression. Results obtained revealed the composite effect of some school variables studied; provision of physical facilities, teachers attitude to work, teaching effectiveness of teachers, teachers-students interpersonal relationship, classroom climate and curriculum implementation strategies to be significant on students’ employability skill acquisition. Each of the variables also showed relative significant effect on students’ employability skills acquisition. Based on the findings, it was recommended that government and other stakeholders in education should employ possible strategies in ensuring that school variables that enhance students’ employability skills acquisition are provided and effectively maintained, to ensure academic programme effectiveness that will foster students’ acquisition of employability skills, which will serve to benefit them and society at large. More so, the work will provide empirical evidence for researchers and the reading communities on the relevance of adequacy of school related variables on acquisition of employability skills by the students. Hence, the need for more investment in education for unemployment and poverty alleviation from the society by imparting job creation skills in the school leavers. |
| Keywords: School Variables, Students, Employability, Acquisition of Employability Skills. |
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