Capacity building of electrical/electronic instructors: A sure way of realizing skill training of polytechnic students in Rivers State, Nigeria
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instructors as a sure way of realizing skill training of polytechnic
students in Rivers State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was used
for the study whose population comprised 46 instructors from the
two state polytechnics in Rivers State. Purposive sampling technique
was used to obtain 28 electrical/electronic instructors from the study
population as sample. Three research questions guided the study.
The instrument used for data collection was the researchers’ selfconstructed
30-item questionnaire titled “Capacity Building of
Instructors for Skill Training Questionnaire (CBISTQ)”. The
instrument was face and content-validated by three experts in
electrical/electronic engineering. The instrument’s reliability was
ascertained with Cronbach Alpha method and a reliability
coefficient of 0.76 was obtained. Mean and standard deviation were
the statistical tools used to analyze the research questions. The
findings of the study revealed among others that capacity building of
polytechnic electrical/electronic instructors enhances the skill
training of students. Based on the findings of the study, it was
recommended amongst others that Government should ensure
continuous professional development of polytechnic
electrical/electronic instructors for effective skill training of students
in polytechnics in Nigeria.
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