INFLUENCE OF CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT ON THE EFFECTIVE TEACHING OF BOOK KEEPING

ABSTRACT The study sought to determine the influence of classroom management on the effective teaching of book keeping in secondary schools in Enugu Education Zone. In other to carry out the study, three purposes of the study and corresponding research questions were formulated to guide the study. Survey research design was used for the study. The population of the study is 2,124 Book-Keeping students. The sample size of the study is 240 respondents which were selected using simple random sampling technique. The instrument used for data collection was questionnaire which contains 14 items. It was validated by three experts; two from department of Business Education and one from Measurement and Evaluation unit of Enugu State College of Education (Technical), Enugu. The reliability of the instrument was established using test re-test. The method adopted for the analysis was mean. The responses on the questionnaire items were used to answer the research questions. The mean scores of the rated items were computed and used as a guide in analyzing the responses. The findings revealed that the teachers’ classroom disciplinary measures, method of teaching, way of supervising the students and proper coordination are the classroom management factors which affect the students’ learning. It was recommended that the school administrators should ensure effective classroom management by providing more classrooms, retraining and supervising the teachers in the schools