Status and Adequacy of Workshop Facilities for Enhanced Teaching and Learning in Rivers State Technical Colleges

Idibia; Clinton Nwachukwu PhD; Iyagbaye; Prince Omoregie PhD; Ajie; Prince  Maduabuchukwu Ph.D

doi:10.56201/ijemt.vol.11.no7.2025.pg286.293

📄 Download Paper

Status and Adequacy of Workshop Facilities for Enhanced Teaching and Learning in Rivers State Technical Colleges

Idibia, Clinton Nwachukwu PhD; Iyagbaye, Prince Omoregie PhD & Ajie, Prince Maduabuchukwu Ph.D

Abstract

The study is designed to determine the status and adequacy of workshop facilities for enhanced teaching and learning in Rivers State Technical Colleges. Two research purposes, two research questions and hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The population of the study was all teachers in the four-state government owned technical colleges in Rives State. A cluster sampling technique was adopted and the sample size was 56 teachers. A structured questionnaire instrument was used to collect data for this study. The instrument was structured on four-point rating scale of Agree (A), Strongly agree (SA), Disagree (D) and strongly disagree (SD) with values of 4, 3, 2, and 1 respectively. The instrument was validated by two experts in Technical Education department, Federal College of Education (Technical) Omoku, Rivers State. Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient formula was used to determine the reliability of the instrument which yielded 0.65 reliability coefficient. The finding of the study revealed that, the store rooms in the school workshops are not of good sizes; the size of the school workshop is not sufficiently large enough to accommodate equipment and students; Workshops tools and equipment in technical schools are obsolete; inadequate for the number of students; and bad for sequence of operations in the workshop. It was recommended that Stakeholders of TVET programmes should ensure the status of workshops in the technical colleges are improved upon and made conducive enough for learning; tools and equipment necessary for learning in the workshop should be sufficiently provided for learning and that maintenance culture of the workshop should be cultivated by all concerned.

Keywords

Statusadequacyworkshop facilitiesteaching and learning

References

Acharu, F. T. & Solomon, E. (2014). Influence of infrastructure on the teaching and learning of office education in Polytechnics. ABEN Conference Proceedings1 (1) 78-82 Anaele, E., Amadi, S. W. & Obed, O. O. (2016). Assessment of The Adequacy of Material Resources for effective Teaching of Blocklaying and concreting: A Panacea for promoting Entrepreneurial Skills in Rivers State Technical Colleges. British Journal of Education. 4(4), 29-37. Hassan, M. M. & Hassan, A. M. (2010). Strategies for effective utilization and maintenance of physical facilities in technical schools. Proceeding of 20th NATT Annual Conference Kaduna. Nwafor, C.E. & Eze, S.O. (2014). Availability And Utilization of Instructional Materials in teaching Basic Science in selected secondary schools in Abakaliki education zone of Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Global Journal of Bio-Science and Biotechnology.3(3). 292-295 ISSN 2278–9103. Ogbonaya, T.C. & Okoli, S.T. (2014). Workshop equipment and facilities as critical factors for Sustainable Skill Acquisition through TVET in Nigeria. Retrieved September, 22nd 2015 from www.transcampus.org/journals. Ogundu, I. (2017). Organizing and Administration of Vocational Education in Nigeria. Port Harcourt: Emeks Enterprises. Ogundu, I. (2018). Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Nigeria: History, Issues and Theories. Port Harcourt: Emenks Enterprises. Ogwa, C. E. (2015). Enhancing the use of Instructional Facilities in Technical Colleges for Qualitative Skills Acquisition in Nigeria. Journal of Information and Knowledge Management. 5(10) ISSN 2224-5758 (Paper) ISSN 2224-896X (Online) www.iiste.org. Okoro, O. M. (2006). Principles and Methods in Vocational and Technical Education. Nsukka: University Trust Publishers. Puyate ST (2004). Manpower production for national development. Paper presented at the Nigerian Association of Teachers of Technology Annual Conference. Ibadan Oyo State, Nigeria. Puyate, S.T. (2002). Survey of vocational education facilities in Government technical colleges in Rivers State. The Journal of Nigeria Association of Teachers of Technology (NATT) 4 (1), 175 –176. Senior Secondary School Physics Education. Journal of Educational Issue, 3 (2), 36.

Status and Adequacy of Workshop Facilities for Enhanced Teaching and Learning in Rivers State Technical Colleges

Abstract

Keywords

References

More Articles from INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY