Industrial & Technology Education

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    Assesment of Tasks and Procedures Necessary for Students Practical Work in Block/Brick Laying and Concreting in Technical Colleges in Niger State
    (8th International Conference of School of Science and Technology Education (SSTE), 2021) Abubakar, T.; Abrack, Y.; Igwe, C. O.; Mohammed, B. M.; Atsume, B. N.; Audu, R.
    This study was designed to assess tasks and procedures for practical work in Brick/Blocklaying and Concreting in Technical Colleges in Niger State. Three research questions were formulated to guide the study. One null hypothesis was formulated and tested at the probability of 0.05 level of significance. Thirty nine structured questionnaire items were developed and used for the study while three experts were engaged to face-validate the instrument. The instrument was pilot tested on 15 students and reliability coefficient of the entire instrument was 0.87. Research and design was adopted, the respondents for the study was 69 made up of 49 Building Technology Teachers, and 20 Registered Builders. The major findings of the study include among others that, some tasks has been identified appropriate for inclusion in the instrument for assessing practical work in Brick/Blocklaying and Concreting in Technical Colleges in Niger State. It was recommended that Brick/Blocklaying and Concreting teachers should be acquainted with the developed instrument to enhance uniform standard in assessing student’s practical work.
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    Human capital development in Technical Vocational Education [TVE] for sustainable national development
    (Journal of Education and Practice, 2013) Audu, R.; Igwe, C.O.; Onoh, C.E.C
    The globalization process, knowledge economy, and the emergence of new modes of production in the industries in the 21st century has brought about new challenges for the developing economies and their labor markets. However, there is a clear indication now that human skills plays an important role in sustaining the current pace of growth and development through enhanced productivity of human capital. The paper discussed extensively on human capital development in TVE for sustainable national development in Nigeria. The paper also stressed on the concept of TVE and role of TVE human capital development for sustainable national development in Nigeria. The paper concludes that TVE institutions at all levels should be well equipped with good infrastructures, workshop facilities as well as employing qualified teachers to enable the graduates of the program to acquire the required skills for gainful employment in order for them to contribute to the development of their society and the nation at large.