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BY
BULUMBELE CHRISTIAN
DSPZ/SBS/13/40385
OCTOBER, 2015
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APPROVAL
This research work has been read and approved by the undersigned, as
satisfying the requirement of the Department of Office Technology and
Management School of Business Studies, Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro.
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MR. OVBIAGELE A.O. DATE
(Project Supervisor)
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DR. R.A. ESENE DATE
(Head of Department)
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MR. ISRAEL OKOLOBI DATE
(Dean, School Of Business)
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EXTERNAL EXAMINER DATE
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CERTIFICATION
This is to certify that this project work was carried out by BULEMBELE
I also certify that this work is adequate in scope and quality in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for the award of National Diploma (ND) in the
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MR. OVBIAGELE A.O. DATE
(Project Supervisor)
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DR. R.A. ESENE DATE
(Head of Department)
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DEDICATION
From the depth of my heart, I dedicate this project work to creator of the
heavens and the earth, the savior of my soul, which is God Almighty for
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
My special gratitude and appreciation goes to God who his mercies endureth
for ever for his guidance and protection over me during my academic pursuit.
I wish to express my profound and sincere appreciation to my able supervisor
MR. OVBIAGELE ABRAHAM O. who spent time, energy and took the pain to
supervise my work and enlighten me. I wish to appreciate the effort of my
beloved father and mother, MR. & MRS. HAPPY ENIYEKPEMI, for being there
for me financially and also giving moral support as well as praying for me
throughout my education. I wish to express my profound and sincere
gratitude to MRS. NAPOLEON EBI for her support, my beloved sister, HAPPY
BRILLIANT, to my friend who is like a sister and more than a sister to me,
ENENATIE EDNA, lastly USHORADA K. CHARITY. God bless all of you.
In conclusion, I want to specially acknowledge the typist of this work
throughout the beginning of the work till the end whose name is no other
person but Stephen Ebimobowei Wariebi. May God uplift your position to a
greater height. In Jesus Name, Amen.
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ABSTRACT
This project work was undertaken to investigate the need of improving the
use of educational resources. This research work centered mainly on the
need for school management to make firm policies so as to affect proper
performance in educational resources as well as enhancing the performance
of students in their school. The population of the study was 402. And the
sample size used was 200. The instrumentation for this study used for
collecting data was specified in the research question using yes or no
method. The questionnaire consisted of five (5) questions drawn in a way
that respondents could answer. The data collected the questionnaire was
analyzed using sample percentage. And the findings drawn from the study
showed that students are responding to the demand of education resources
and the opinion about the application of educational resources is necessary.
The conclusions drawn was that, most of the students, lack interest in their
lecturers. And these made the large population of studies in a class to be
affected. Based on the findings, several recommendations were made.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover page - - - - - - - - i
Title page - - - - - - - - - ii
Approval Page - - - - - - - - iii
Dedication - - - - - - - - - iv
Acknowledgements - - - - - - - v
Abstracts - - - - - - - - - vi
Table of Contents - - - - - - - vii
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
Background of the study - - - - - - 1
Statement of the problem - - - - - - 3
Purpose of the study - - - - - - - 4
Significance of the study - - - - - - 5
Research Questions - - - - - - - 5
Scope of the study - - - - - - - 6
Limitation of the study - - - - - - - 6
Operational definitions of terms - - - - - 7
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELEVANT LITERATURE
Introduction - - - - - - - - 9
Conceptual frame-work of educational resources - - 9
The need of educational resources - - - - - 10
Problems of educational resources - - - - - 11
Method of educational resources - - - - - 13
Summary of literature reviewed - - - - - 16
CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY
Design of the study - - - - - - - 17
Area of the study - - - - - - - - 18
Population of the study- - - - - - - 18
Sample of the study - - - - - - - 18
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Instrumentation - - - - - - - - 19
Description - - - - - - - - 19
Validation of the instrument - - - - - - 20
Reliability of the instrument - - - - - - 20
Administration of the instrument - - - - - 21
Method of data analysis - - - - - - 21
CHAPTER FOUR: PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA
Data Analysis - - - - - - - - 22
Discussion of findings - - - - - - - 27
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND
RECOMMENDATION
Introduction - - - - - - - - 29
Summary of findings - - - - - - - 29
Conclusion - - - - - - - - - 30
Recommendations - - - - - - - 30
Suggestion for further studies - - - - - 31
Implication of the study - - - - - - 31
References - - - - - - - - - 32
Appendixes - - - - - - - - - 33
Question - - - - - - - - - 34
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
which were previously done manually have been mechanized. Thus, the
The results are used for multipilicity of purpose. The consequence of global
changed the equipment and work groups, of course, nobody today would like
the workforce of many nations consists primarily of workers that are people
who spend most of their workday creating, using the distributing information.
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They provide information about a student progress and his/her lecturer in
evaluating his success, modifying and improving his approach to his subject.
the syllabus.
educational resources, practice attempt has been made to ask questions and
How can we plan for the continuous resources of our institution, method and
In order to achieve the aims of this study attempt will be made to answer the
following questions:
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1. What are the lecturer and student and interaction towards the educational
resources?
resources?
The major purpose of the study is to find out the educational resources that
1. Examine on how to find the nature and scope of relationship between the
educational resources.
3. Examine the extent to which the number and the academic qualification of
4. High impact of supports to the students to ensure that all students will
This study is significant in the sense that it will increase students knowledge
and enhance the process of studies in the school. New studies can be
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generated due to the findings of this work and knowledge on the concept.
total revenue generated by school. All revenue generated from the study are
put together by the school production for the masses also the study will be
used as a guide for the training and enlightening the student and other
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
educational resources?
4. What are the resources that are available for use by Educational
Polytechnic, Ozoro.
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LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
fact where to be selected for the study. Also time factor was another problem
movement outside the field to collect materials for the research. It took the
researcher a great deal of determination and time to get the research work
neatly collected.
respondents did not return the questionnaire gender to them and this further
a) Educational resources
of learning
of his/her authority.
c) Performance
CHAPTER TWO
INTRODUCTION
This chapter describes the review taking from various sources as they relate
He went further in saying that not only his character as well as personality is
progress.
Ube (1978) realizes that the fact that effective record keeping of students’
progress would help lecturers, school management to guide and counsel their
students for a further programme since their strength and weakness will be
uncovered.
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It makes the lecturers work systematic and organize and the students
Learning by the students becomes much more relatively easier when learning
help each student improve. The most obvious of the necessary of educational
enjoys or does not enjoys doing, his problems is stated of physical and
a result of the fact that both the students and the resources are not properly
planned.
knowledge.
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Related to this erective traits are a variety of instrument of assessing them,
instrument for their resources have been developed in Nigeria but we still
the student continue to learn intently without regular valuation then, the
student will not change his mistakes and make corrections guard towards
students is a source.
school has no time for learning their notes and instructional materials for the
adopted include.
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The scientific and effective thinking approach under this approach or what is
generally called the method of science is the most. This approach can be
Identifying a problem
Set hypothesis
The importance of this approach in normal life is that there are several
problems to solve.
Provide solutions
Identification of a problem
The project approach tens is another which uses a great deal of finding out
Break the topic into some meaningful bits so that they will complete the
Huson (1973) while trying to point out some of the advantages of the
when the educational resources procedure is applied all the work students
as well as file document. Currently, too all computer are tested on various
aptitude skills which are largely in the psychomotor and cognitive domains.
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As office technology and management student, my skill can assess by my
CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY
This chapter explained the procedures used in collecting data from this study.
Sample/sampling technique
Instrumentation
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The design of this study is survey. Survey design according to Esene, (2004)
This study title improving the job performance of office technology and
management study through the use of educational resources was carried out
State, Nigeria.
The population of the study comprise of 402 students from office technology
The department covered in the study consisted of 402 students from ND1
200 were randomly selected from ND1 and ND2 department of office
The number of the entire students that was used in this exercise were as
following.
ND1 - - 105
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ND2 - - 95 = 200
INSTRUMENTATION
The instrument that was used for data collection of several items that who’s
personal information about the respondent e.g. sex, age, marital status,
respondents are expected to tick () the optional answers that they agree
The instrument used for the study was prepared by the researcher. It was
validated by the project supervisor and three (3) in the student own area of
study, the correction that was made by them formed the final version of the
instrument.
The questionnaire used for the study was subjected to test – re-test. By this
and after two weeks the same questionnaire was administered to the same
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set of persons. The two result were completed in order to determine stability
of the questionnaire. The result shows that the items were stable.
The method used for data collection in this study was face to face method; is
The data collected with the questionnaire was carefully assembled, and
statistics was used to analyze the data collected, the statistics that was used
CHAPTER FOUR
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PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA
This chapter describes the data collected and analysis in this study,
chapter one.
DATA ANALYSIS
Question One
student.
Table One
educational resources
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From the above responses, it shows that 30 (60%) of the respondents said
yes while 20 representing 40% and No. Therefore it could be said that
educational resources.
resources.
while 35% (70%) did not agreed further more, it appear tha students, are
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Did your school implement educational resources. The question has to do
resources
The above table explain 45 (90%) respondent agreed with the above
demand are being meant in the school? It have to reveal it that there are
To answer this below data were used adequate record to show if educational
From the above table 35 (70%) respondents agreed that they are
Therefore, it seems that there are adequate records to show whether the
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Table above shows that 30 (60%) of the respondents agree that they have
good relationship with the lecturers, 20 (40%) said no from the responses
above. I could said that responses above. I could relationship with the
lecturers.
DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
The study was aimed to examine the performance of office technology and
resources.
This study was supported by Ube (1982) which states that the educational
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CHAPTER FIVE
INTRODUCTION
This study is design to find out the educational facilities that can improve the
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
This chapter brings the researcher work to an end. This is to take over view
of the whole project starting from chapter one to chapter four. It will also
discussion the conclusion drawn from the data analysis in chapter four and
resources.
necessary.
CONCLUSION
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In this study, the responses to any finding presented in the major conclusion
are as follows.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Based on the finding of the study and the conclusion reached, the researcher
recommend that lecturers should try and employ all skills, techniques and
method within their reach, not just learning but using appropriate techniques
and management.
business education in Nigeria school, student should ensure that they are
those results have for education. It was the aim of educational authority in
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the area that the students should achieve the same level of competence in
educational resources.
REFERENCES
Obi Adeguro (2000); Office Practice and Information System, Agbor Area
Publishing Ibadan.
Woarding Helen (1985); A Hand Secretary Ask Book Pitma Publisher Ltd.
London.
APPENDIX
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Department of Office Technology
and Management,
School of Business Studies,
Delta State Polytechnic,
PMB 5, Ozoro.
20th August, 2015.
Dear Respondent,
REQUEST TO FILL IN A QUESTIONNAIRE
Yours faithfully,
………………………………..
Buluembele Christian
(Researcher)
QUESTIONNAIRE
SECTION A
Personal Data
Name: …………………………………………………………………………………………….
School: ……………………………………………………………………………………………
Dept: ………………………………………………………………………………………………
Sex: ………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Marital Status:…………………………………………………………………………………..
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SECTION B
Please indicate yes or no where appropriate.
S/N QUESTIONS YES NO
1. Do you have opinion that application of educational `
resources is necessary?
2. Do you think student are responding positively to the
demand of the educational resources?
3. Did your school implement educational resources?
4. Are there adequate records to show whether the
educational resources demand are being meant in the
school?
5. Do you have good relationship with your lecturers in
school?
6. Si educational resources important in the field of
education?
7. Are there sufficient or adequate educational
resources in your school?
8. Does your lecturer encourage the using of
educational resources in your school?
9. Does the government make adequate provision of
educational resources in your school?
10. Do you like educational resources?
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