Communication skills of the instructional staff of the college of business, entrepreneurship and accountancy: A students’ evaluation

One of the key features of interactive learning and processing of discussions is a good communication skill. To be able to get your ideas across amidst the different levels of audience is a challenge. The way one communicates determines the capability of the communicator to assess the audience and to engage them in the communication loop. This undertaking is designed to show the comparative evaluation of students of the teaching communicative skills of the faculty members of the College of Business, Entrepreneurship and Accountancy. This study attempted to ascertain and compare the teaching communication skills of tenured and non-tenured faculty members of the College of Business, Entrepreneurship and Accountancy as evaluated by the students using the descriptive correlational method of research. Respondents of the study were the senior students of all the program offerings of the College. The descriptive statistics used to summarize the profile of the respondents were percentages, frequency counts and mean and in the analysis and interpretation of the evaluation of the student-respondents as regards the teaching communicative skills of the faculty members, the weighted mean, the chi-square and Pearson r were used. A questionnaire was utilized to gather information from the respondents which consisted of two parts: Part 1 consisted of the profile of the respondents and Part II of the questionnaire proper consisted of the respondents’ evaluation on the teaching communicative skills. This modified data gathering tool was patterned from the Teachers Behavioral Inventory tool used by the University of Cagayan Valley. The profile of the respondents was analysed using the simple frequency count and percentage. In the analysis and interpretation of the evaluation of the respondents as regards to the teaching communicative skills, the weighted mean was used. With the conduct of this study, results have led to the conclusion that the profiles of the respondents along sex, age and program have a significant effect on the evaluation of the respondents on the communications skills of both the tenured and the non-tenured faculty members. In the light of the foregoing conclusion, it is strongly recommended that the faculty members, both the tenured and the non-tenured should undertake measure that will improve their communication skills especially in the delivery of their subject lessons. Further, faculty members should attend seminar or trainings in line with improving their communication skills.