School of Science and Technology Education (SSTE)
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Item Technology Education: A Vehicle for Sustainable Youth Empowerment in Nigeria(SAMUTECH SERVICES LTD, 2008) Igwe, C. O.The technology objective of the National Policy on Education FRN (2004), centered on increasing the productive potential of the Nigerian youths thereby increasing the chances of producing better goods and services. The socio-economic development of Nigeria is strongly tied to effective implementation of technology education programme. Empowering the youths with relevant knowledge, productive skill and work habits, appear indispensable. This paper addressed technology education as a vehicle for sustainable youth empowerment. Strategies for this empowerment were discussed and recommendations made for its sustainability, among which are: organizing workshop/conferences on the “how to” and ‘benefits” of technology education, and encouraging young graduate on initial establishment of small scale trades were highlighted.Item Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Economic Development in Nigeria in the 21st Century. Entrepreneurship and Innovation(2017) Igwe, C. O.; Raymond, E.; Abutu, E.; Dantani, I. W.Item The methods of Integrating Technology in Teaching and Learning. Teaching with Technology: Perspectives, Challenges and future Directions(Nova Science Publishers New York, 2019) Igwe, C. O.; Mustapha, A.The method used for active teaching and learning is a point of grave interest to educators and teachers. Methods of instruction in any education circumstance deliver a lively role in exciting analytical and artistic thought, improving student cooperation and guaranteeing that students observe a problem from varied viewpoints. They are planned to give scholars the chance to watch, interlace in and develop or identify expert’s procedures in circumstance. Therefore, this chapter highlighted drill and practice, dialogue, and tutorial as methods of integrating technology in teaching and learning.Item Assessment of the Metacognitive Awareness and its Implication on the Technical College Students’ Academic Achievement in Niger State(Journal of Information, Education, Science and Technology (JOEST), 2014) Owodunni, S. A.; Igwe, C. O.; Hassan, A. M.This study assessed technical students’metacognitive awareness and its implication on their academic achievement in Niger State technical colleges. The study adopted a correlation survey research design. The population of the study was 188 National Technical Certificate (NTC) 11 technical students. Three research questions and three null hypotheses, tested at 0.05 level of significance, guided the study. The instrument used for data collection were Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) and Technical Drawing Achievement Test (TDAT). The inventory was validated by experts for use in Nigeria context. The trial test for determining the coefficient of stability of the instrument was carried out using 40 students in Government Science Technical College Garki, Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory. The reliability coefficient computed for the achievements test was found to be 0.088. Mean was used to answer the research questions. Kendall’s Tau-b correlation coefficient was applied for the measurement of correlation among/between the variables of interest, while t-test statistics was employed to test the hypotheses. The study found out that male students performed better than the female students in the achievements test and MAI subscales. The study revealed among others that urban students performed better than the rural students in the achievement test and MAI subscales; there was a link among internet usage, library habits students metacognition and student’s achievement performance of highly metacognitvely aware students was better on the achievement test than low metacognitively aware students; there was no significant difference between metacognition of male and female students and between urban and rural students. Consequently, it was recommended among others that the training of students should be focused on where they need support to develop their metacognition and that internet surfing and reading library books have good impact on metacognitive awareness.Item Proper Funding of Technology Education Institutions: A Condition for Sustainable Development of Nigerian Youths(Journal of Vocational and Adult Education (JOVAE), 2006) Igwe, C. O.; Ibeneme, O. T.This paper identifies the funding needs of technology education, which include purchase of new equipment, training and retraining of technology education teachers among others. It also considers the tragic consequences of improper funding of technology education institutions on the sustainable development of Nigerian youths. Constraints to proper funding were explored. It was observed that poor image and sole funding of technology education by government constitute a cog in the wheel of development and advancement of technology education in Nigeria. Finally, a call was made for involvement of the communities, foreign aids, industries, and technology education institutions in funding technology education.Item Mechanisms for Improving Manpower Production in Occupational and Technical Education(ATBU Journal of Technology and Educational Research (JOTER), 2013) Atsume, B. N.; Robert, O.; Raymond, E.; Igwe, C. O.This study was designed to identify mechanisms for improving the quantity and quality of manpower production in vocational and technical education in Kogi State. Four research questions and hypotheses guided the study. The study was carried out in Kogi State of Nigeria and the areas of study specifically are technical colleges, secondary schools, polytechnics and industries. Population of the study comprised two hundred (200) technology education teachers and seventy-five industrial personnel drawn from the area of study. A 30-items questionnaire was used to collect the relevant data. The research questions and hypotheses were analyzed using mean standard deviation and t-test statistics. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The results from the data showed that technology teachers and head of technical departments and unit from the industries shared similar views with (30 or 73.4%) of the mechanisms proposed. Specifically it discovered that there is no strong tie between industries and training institutions, students industrial work experience scheme is haphazardly organized, the training facilities and entrants into the training institutions are poor and the administration of these training institutions were left in the hands of non-vocational educators. Based on the findings, it was recommended, that government should immediately conduct a national survey on manpower needs in vocational and technical education, remunerations of technical teachers should be reviewed urgently; industries should go into partnership with training institutions in drawing up a training programmes and government should liaise with industries to ensure the remittance of 5% of their annual profit the development of technical education.Item Improvement of Graduate Skills Acquisition through Collaboration with Industry for Sustainable Transformation in Nigeria(Journal of Nigerian Association of Teachers of Technology (JONATT), 2014) Igwe, C. O.; Saba, T. M.; Umar, Y. I.; Animal, A.The study explores strategies to improve graduate skills acquisition through University collaboration with industries for sustainable transformation in a developing economy. The study was carried out in North Central States of Nigeria. Two research question and two null hypotheses (Ho) were formulated to guide the study Survey research design was adopted for the study and total of 100 respondents consisting of 60 University academic staff and 40 industrial personnel constitute the population sampled from 3 Universities and 5 industries from the zone. Structured questionnaire was designed and validated by 5 experts, was used for data collection and analyses using mean, standard deviation and t-test statistics. The Ho was tested at 0.05 level of significance. Findings show a gap between industries and universities therefore, recommended among others a joint consultative forum in designing and implementation of curriculum for training industrial technology graduates and engaging/utilizing of research work of graduates in improving the industrial sector.Item Gender Inequality in Technical and Vocational Education and Training: A challenge to Female Education in Nigeria(Journal of Nigerian Association of Teachers of Technology (JONATT), 2016) Owodunni, S. A.; Igwe, C. O.; Sanni, T. A.; Onatunde, E. K.This paper looks at the gender inequality in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) with respect to female education in Nigeria. It defined the concept of gender as socio cultural and is built based on the biological expectations of the individual on the basis of being male or female, and identifies wide range of gender issues militating against Technical and Vocational Education and Training development such as religion, stereotype, lack of adequate guidance and counseling services and cultural influences. The paper also looks at ways of encouraging female participation in TVET in Nigeria. Consequently, the paper recommended among others that a massive public orientation campaign, to encourage parents, teachers and the public at large towards female education in general and Technical and Vocational Education and Training in particular and a call for the removal and abolition of all socio-cultural, religious and political barriers inhibiting female education in general and Technical and Vocational Education and Training in particular.Item Competencies Needed by Electrical Technology Education Lecturers in the Use of Social Media for Research Activities in Tertiary Institutions(Academic Journal Of Research And Development (AJORAD), 2018) Ibrahim, Y.; Owodunni, S. A.; Igwe, C. O.The study determined the competencies needed by Electrical Technology Education Lecturers in the use of social media for research activities in tertiary institutions in North West Zone, Nigeria. Three research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population comprised of 63 respondents from University, Polytechnic and Colleges Education. The instrument used for the study was four points rated 33 item questionnaires. No sampling was carried out since the entire population of 63 was considered manageable. The instrument for the study was validated; pilot tested and Cronbach Alpha reliability found to be 0.87. Data collected was analyzed using mean, standard deviation and t-test at 0.05 level of significance using SPSS version 20. The study found out that Electrical Technology Education Lecturers (ETEL) need 26 competencies at different levels and magnitude while seven competencies were not needed. There was no significant difference in the mean ratings of male and female of ETEL on the competencies needed by ETEL in the use of social media for research activities. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that: management of each of the tertiary institutions should use the identified competencies needed to organize special training workshop for the ETEL in the use of social media for research activities,Item Correlates of Examination Malpractice and Academic Performance of Secondary School in Obia/Akporand Emohua Local Government Arias of Revers State, Nigeria(Journal of Research in Entrepreneurship Development (JORED), 2018) Ewe, C. U.; Onoh, B. C. E. C.; Igwe, C. O.Examination as an indispensable tools used to evaluate education programme is supposed to be sacred. Unfortunately, this sacredness has been battered by Examination malpractice at various levels of education in Rivers State and Nigeria as a whole. The study correlated examination malpractice and academic performance of student at the Junior School level with particular preference to JSCE and SS1 students’ promotional examination. Two research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at the .05 level of significance. The instrument used for data collections was pro-formas which are archival data obtained from the schools under study. The population of 21,586 students was studied. A simple random sampling technique was used. The sample size of 800 students was selected used Taro Yamane’s formula. The data obtained were analyzed using Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient (r). The major findings of this study were that significance relationship existed between the two variables studie (academic performance in JSCE and SS1 promotional examination of same students for a period of five years. Furthermore, the magnitude of the relationship per year of study has been average, low and/or very low, which signified a very weak relationship in general and a huge gap between the raw scores of individual students in Mathematics as a core subject. Base on the findings, it was concluded that examination malpractice is responsible for the weak relationship and the huge gaps identified that existed between students’ Mathematics score in JSCE and SS1 final results. Recommendations were that government should lay more emphasis on practical knowledge and experience rather than paper qualifications for employment of labour and re-introduction of moral instruction in schools, home and society as a whole.