Level of Implementation of Business Studies Curriculum in Junior Secondary Schools in Enugu State

The study examined the level of implementation of Business Studies curriculum in junior secondary schools in Enugu State. Three research objectives guided the study. The study employed an evaluation research design. The population of the study comprised eight hundred and seventy (870) public and private secondary schools in the seventeen (17) local government area in Enugu State out of which sixty (60) were used as the sample size for the study. The instrument for data collection was a checklist stipulating the criterion/standard of correspondence of the Business Studies contents, instructional facilities and materials in public and private schools in Enugu State to the specifications of the core curriculum. The data collected were analyzed using frequencies, ratios and percentages for research questions while the hypotheses were tested using Chi-square test of goodness-of-fit at 0.05 level of significance. The results showed that there is appreciable level of implementation of the contents of Business Studies taught in JSS schools in Enugu State with the specifications of the core Business Studies curriculum; that most of the facilities and instructional materials for teaching Business Studies in Enugu State Secondary Schools are inadequate. Based on the findings, the study recommended among others, that more facilities and instructional materials should be provided for Business studies at the Junior secondary schools in Enugu State for a seamless implementation of the core curriculum. The study has implications for monitoring the provision of facilities and resource materials to facilitate the implementation of the Business Studies curriculum in both public and private secondary schools to ensure uniformity in standard.