Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship composite and relative contribution of independent variables on students retention in business education in Ibadan Oyo state Nigeria The study was a descriptive research design of correlational type The sample of the study consisted of 314 of teachers that are teaching business education and students that are offering business education at final year in secondary school The sample was selected using stratified random sampling techniques among strata of the respondents The instruments used for data collection are Senior school certificate examination paper on business education studies that one measures students retention the second instrument is availability of teaching materials for teachers and students with the respondent s qualification to distinguish between teachers and the students and the third instrument is the students attitude towards business education studies The first section in all the instruments used measured the demographic information about the participants The reliability coefficients of students attitude to business education studies and availability of teaching materials on students retention in business education are 0 78 and 0 82 respectively in that order The three research questions were generated in the course of this study Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Multiple Regression statistical methods were used for data analysis Results indicated that significant relationship existed between each of the independent variables on students retention in business education also significant joint relationship existed among these variables and all the independent variables were potent predictors of students retention in business education in Ibadan metropolis Oyo state Nigeria Among others it was recommended that more studies on students retention in business education are needed in Nigeria so that efforts at improving the standard of education in Nigeria could be enhanced The study concluded that the three independent variables considered in this study are germane to students retention in business education