ABSTRACT

Poor performance of students in Business Education courses has become a disturbing issue to parents, lecturers, curriculum planners, education administrators and society at large. As part of the contribution to checkmate this ugly situation, this study was designed to determine the availability and utilization of audiovisual instructional materials in teaching and learning of business education as it is considered to be a significant factor in aiding comprehension for students. To carry out the study, five research questions and five null hypotheses were formulated. Design for the study was a descriptive survey research. The study was carried out in Business Education department of six colleges of education in North Central State of Nigeria. The population of the study comprised 101 lecturers and 946 students from the Business Education departments of the six Colleges of Education selected from the North Central State of Nigeria. The sample size of the study was 372, comprising 101 lecturers and 271 students. Data for the study were collected with structured questionnaire titled:  Business Education Audiovisual Instructional Materials Availability and Utilization Assessment Questionnaire (BEAIMAUAQ). Data for the study were analysed using frequency, percentages, mean, standard deviation and real limit of numbers. T-test was used to test the null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. The findings of the study among others revealed that most of the audiovisual instructional materials for teaching and learning of Business Education were available and that the available audiovisual materials were poorly utilized by the lecturers. Based on the findings, the recommendations were proffered among others, that government and school administrators should ensure that audiovisual instructional materials are provided in colleges of education.