Abstract:
The major purpose of this study was to determine the office information systems skills possessed by office education lecturers in Northeast States of Nigeria. To achieve the purpose, four research questions were developed and answered, while three null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population for the study consisted of 136 office education lecturers drawn from tertiary institutions that offer business education in Northeast States of Nigeria. The entire population was surveyed. The study adopted a survey research design that made use of a 49-item structured questionnaire developed from the literature reviewed for the study. The structured questionnaire was face validated by three experts. Cronbach Alpha method was used to determine the reliability of the items and a coefficient of 0.89 was obtained. The questionnaire was administered on 136 respondents by the researcher and four trained research assistants. All the copies of the questionnaire were retrieved and analyzed using the mean and standard deviation, while real limit of class boundary of Highly possessed (4.50-5.00), possessed (3.50 - 4.99) Average possessed (2.50 - 3.49) Possessed a little (1.50 - 2.49) Not possessed (0.50 - 1.49) was used to interpret the result. t-test was used to test the hypothesis 1, while analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test hypotheses 2 and 3. The findings of the study revealed that office education lecturers in tertiary institutions did not possess highly in any of the four clusters of office information systems components, the lecturers possess no skill in electronic image processing systems. One of the disclosures of the null hypotheses shows that location is not a significant source of difference in the mean ratings of office education lecturers on electronic publishing systems skills they possessed. The study also revealed that educational qualification is not a significant source of difference in the mean rating of lecturers of office education lecturers in teaching electronic communication systems in tertiary institutions. It was therefore recommended among others that Office Education Lecturers should avail themselves to acquire very highly skills on office information systems components such as electronic publishing system, electronic communication systems, electronic collaborative systems and electronic image processing systems for effective teaching of office information systems skills. Also, it was recommended that the lecturers should be retrained through in-service, on the-job training, workshop and seminar.
