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ABSTRACT

This study examined the innovative teaching styles and students' performance in business subjects in secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State. A correlational survey design was adopted for the study. The study was conducted in Akwa Ibom State. The population of the study comprised all the teachers of business subjects and secondary school students offering business subjects. A stratified random sampling technique was used to select 180 teachers, which constituted the sample size used for the study. The instrument titled "Innovative Teaching Styles Questionnaire (ITSQ)" was used for data collection. Face and content validation of the instrument was carried out by one expert in test and measurement from the University of Uyo to ensure that the instrument had accuracy, appropriateness, and completeness. The Cronbach Alpha technique was used to determine the level of reliability of the instrument. In this case, the reliability coefficient obtained was 0.89, and this was high enough to justify the use of the instrument. The researcher subjected the data generated for this study to appropriate statistical techniques such as Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis in testing the hypotheses. The test for significance was done at a 0.05 alpha level. The study concluded that innovative teaching styles are a proactive approach to integrating new teaching strategies and methods into a classroom that also involves virtual labs: learning activities based on real-life problems; learning environments with equipment, furnishings, materials, and audiovisual resources; and learning guides for students and the teacher. This implies that student performance in a case method course may be assessed along a variety of dimensions, including class participation, individual written work on papers and exams, and group activities such as projects and presentations. Finally, the adoption of virtual reality, smart boards in teaching, and flipping the classroom for teaching students individually has a significant relationship with student performance in business subjects in secondary school in Akwa Ibom State. One of the recommendations was that schools’ administrators should improve the rate of innovative teaching styles when teaching business subjects so that they can improve the performance of the business subject students.