Preventive and Corrective Maintenance Practices on Instructional Technologies Adopted For Effective Instructional Delivery by Business Education Departments in Colleges of Education in Nigeria

Abstract

The study was carried out to determine the preventive and corrective maintenance practices on instructional technologies adopted by Business Education Departments in Colleges of Education in Anambra and Enugu States of Nigeria. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study was 165 lecturers and 10 laboratory attendants in Business Education Department. A 21-item-structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The questionnaire was validated and used to determine the reliability co-efficient of the instrument using Crombach Alpha approach, and 0.84 was obtained as the reliability coefficient. Mean and standard deviation were used to find answer to the research questions, while the hypotheses were tested using t-test statistic at the probability level of 0.05. The results of the analysis showed that the Business Education Departments adopted both the preventive and corrective maintenance practices. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the Departments should make deliberate efforts to strengthen the use of the preventive and the corrective maintenance practices. It was also recommended that qualified personnel should be employed to use and maintain the instructional technologies.