GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

The study examined the influence of personalized and jigsaw learning strategies on job performance of business educators in private junior secondary schools in Rivers State. The study carried out in Rivers State, adopted a correlational survey design. The population comprised the 641business educators in registered private junior secondary schools in Obio/Akpor LGA of Rivers State. Simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample size of 234 business educators, which comprised of 158 females and 76 males. Two (2) sets of instrument titled: Instructional Innovation of Business Educators Questionnaire (InsIoBEQu) and Job Performance of Business Educators Questionnaire (JoPBEQu) were used for the study. The instrument was subjected to content and face validity. A test-retest method of reliability was adopted in this study. The researcher used Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient to analyze and answer the research questions and to test the hypotheses that were formulated at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that there is a significant relationship between personalized learning and job performance of business educators in the aforementioned secondary schools in Rivers State and also that there is a significant relationship between jigsaw learning and job performance of business educators in the aforementioned secondary schools in Rivers State. The study concludes that personalized, and jigsaw learning strategies respectively have a significant relationship with the job performance of business educators in private junior secondary schools in Rivers State. The study recommended that business educators in private secondary schools should introduce and encourage personalized and jigsaw learning strategies of teaching and learning in order to boost student’s academic performance.

Keywords: Personalized and Jigsaw Learnings, Job Performance, Business Educators, Private Junior Secondary Schools, Rivers State.