GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

The study investigated information and critical thinking skills as correlates of workplace performance of business education lecturers in tertiary institutions in Rivers State. Correlation survey design was adopted for this study. This study was carried out in Rivers State. The population of this study consists of 108 business education lecturers in tertiary institutions running business education programme in Rivers State. Census sampling technique was adopted for this study. Two (2) sets of questionnaires titled ‘Digital Skill Utilization of Business Education Lecturers Questionnaire (DiSUBELQu)’ and ‘Workplace Performance of Business Education Lecturers Questionnaire (WoPoBELQu) was used for the study. The researcher employed face and content validity method. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC) indicated a reliability coefficient of 0.81 while the dependent variables representing Workplace Performance of Business Education Lecturers Questionnaire (WoPoBELQu) was equally computed and 0.74 reliability co- efficient was obtained. Thus, both instruments were deemed reliable for this study. The researcher used Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) to analyze and answer the research questions that were stated regarding the relationship between digital skill utilization and workplace performance of business educators and to test the hypotheses that were formulated at 0.05 level of significance. On this basis the study concluded that there is a very strong and positive relationship between information skills utilization and workplace performance of business education lecturers. And also showed a moderate and positive relationship between critical thinking skill utilization and workplace performance of business education lecturers. One of the recommendations made was that business education lecturers should endeavor to utilize their information skills effectively so that information would be accurate and timely.

KEYWORDS: Information and Critical Thinking Skills, Workplace Performance, Business Education Lecturers, Tertiary Institutions and Rivers State.