ABSTRACT
The study was undertaken for the purpose of establishing business education lecturers and student?s assessment of influence of teaching practice on skills and classroom performance of business education students in colleges of education in North-East, Nigeria. Seven research questions were drawn to guide the study while seven null hypotheses were formulated for testing. The population of the study comprised 156 business education lecturers and 1044 students in nine colleges of education in North-East, Nigeria. A 4-point rating scale structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The instrument was personally distributed by the researcher assisted by six research assistants. Eight hundred and sixty seven (867) copies of questionnaire were properly completed and retrieved. Data collected were subjected to statistical analysis using mean score of index of 2.5 for agreement of answering research question. Logistic regression was used to test null hypotheses 1 to 6 while t-test was employed in testing null hypothesis 7. All the hypotheses were tested at significance level of 0.05. One of the findings of the study revealed that teaching practice experience has significant influence on Acquired Teaching Skills of business education students in colleges of education in the North-East, Nigeria. It was recommended among others that teacher training institutions or faculties should organize micro teaching for business education student teachers on regular bases this would enable them gain some experiences that will be useful to them in the profession.