IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/rnd/arjevr/v3y2012i4p118-126.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Practical Skill Improvement Needs of Technical College Mechanical Engineering Craft Practice Curriculum in Nigeria

Author

Listed:
  • Atsumbe B.N
  • Ogwo B.A

Abstract

In recent years, the curriculum of technical college mechanical engineering craft practice has been criticized as being shallow and inadequate. Because of this deficiency, the study was therefore designed to determine the needed practical skills improvement on the curriculum of technical college mechanical engineering. One research question and a hypothesis guided the study. The study was conducted in the North Central States of Nigeria. A survey research design was employed. Twenty-eight (28) industries were sampled for the study. Using purposive sampling sixty (60) mechanical engineers, one hundred technicians (100) and one hundred and fifty craftsmen were used for the study. A forty-eight item questionnaire was used for the study. A forty-eight item questionnaire was used to collect data, and data analysis was done using Mean, Standard Deviation, and One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Findings showed that respondents agreed with the items with a very high mean of 3.50 – 3.83, areas that attracted high mean included advanced machining, material treatments and engineering drawing. It was recommended that these new items should be incorporated into the curriculum during review.

Suggested Citation

  • Atsumbe B.N & Ogwo B.A, 2012. "Practical Skill Improvement Needs of Technical College Mechanical Engineering Craft Practice Curriculum in Nigeria," Journal of Education and Vocational Research, AMH International, vol. 3(4), pages 118-126.
    • Handle: RePEc:rnd:arjevr:v:3:y:2012:i:4:p:118-126
    DOI: 10.22610/jevr.v3i4.58
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ojs.amhinternational.com/index.php/jevr/article/view/58/58
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://ojs.amhinternational.com/index.php/jevr/article/view/58
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22610/jevr.v3i4.58?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rnd:arjevr:v:3:y:2012:i:4:p:118-126. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Muhammad Tayyab (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://ojs.amhinternational.com/index.php/jevr .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.