Peter Omoloju ONAIVI

This study examined Proficient Utilization of Pedagogical Information and Communication Technology skills and perceived business educators’ job performance in Colleges of Education in Edo and Delta States, Nigeria. To guide the study, ten (10) research questions were raised and three answered while eight hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted survey research of correlational design. The population of the study was 107 Business Educators in colleges of education in Edo and Delta States of Nigeria. The sample size was 107 business educators hence a census. The research instrument used was a structured questionnaire titled “Proficient utilization of pedagogical Information and Communication Technology skills and perceived business educators’ job performance in Colleges of Education in Edo and Delta States (PUPBEJP)”. The instrumentwas segmented into two parts: A and B. Part A dealt with the bio-data of the respondents such as location of institution and gender, while Part B was made up of 60 item statements sub-segmented into eight (8) clusters with Sections A and B. Section A had three clusters with 32 items measuring level of Proficiency on pedagogical ICT skills, level of utilization of pedagogical ICT skills and job performance of business educators while Section B measured 28 items on proficiency and utilization of CAL/CAI, CMI, CBI, CBT and CAD and they were rated on four point rating scale. The instrument was validated by five experts: the researcher’s supervisors, two (2) other experts from the Faculty of Vocational and Technical Education and one psychometrician from the Department of Educational Evaluation and Counseling Psychology (EECP), University of Benin, Benin-City. The instrument was pilot tested once on twenty business educators’ in Federal College of Education, Omoku, Rivers State who were not part of the population of the xii study. Alpha value of 0.94 was obtained for proficiency and utilization of pedagogical ICT skills and 0.74 was obtained for business educators’ job performance. Data collected from the respondents were analyzed using Mean, Standard Deviation, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, Multiple regression analysis and Fisher z. The Mean and Standard Deviation were used to answer the research questions while Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, Multiple regression analysis and Fisher z were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that the level of proficiency of pedagogical ICT skills possessed by business educators was high. The findings equally revealed that proficient utilization of pedagogical ICT skills significantly predicted the job performance of business educators. It was concluded that there was a significant relationship between business educators’ proficient utilization of pedagogical ICT skills and their job performance in colleges of education in Edo and Delta States. Based on the findings and conclusion, recommendations were proffered among others that management of colleges of education should sustain, maintain and promote the highlevels of proficiency, utilization and job performance among business educators through continuous professional development.