Assessement of the Functionality and Utilization of Instructional Facilities in Teaching and Learning Automobile Technology in Tertiary Institutions in South-South, Nigeria

Assessment of the Functionality and Utilization of Instructional Facilities in Teaching and Learning Automobile Technology in Tertiary Institutions in South-South, Nigeria.

Abstract

This study focused on assessing the instructional facilities  in  teaching and learning of automobile technology in tertiary institutions in south-south, Nigeria.

A survey research design was adopted, the respondents for the study comprised150 lecturers and 90 automobile technologists from 11 tertiary institutions in south-south, Nigeria, making a total population of 240 respondents.

An observational checklist using National Universities Commission (NUC) standard requirements and a structured questionnaire with four sections (A –D) were used as instruments for data collection.

The  instruments were subjected to face validation by three experts. The reliability of the instruments was established using Cronbach Alpha reliability method.

The reliability of the instruments range from 0.62 to 0.65.  The overall reliability coefficient was 0.64. Four research questions and one null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significant guided the study.

The frequency, percentage and mean were used to answer the research questions while t-test statistics was used to test the null hypothesis.

Introduction

1.1 Background of Study

Automobile technology involves the application of scientific knowledge in the design, selection of materials, construction, operation and maintenance of automobiles.

Automobile technology  is one of the trades offered in industrial technical education Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN, 2004).

The programme of automobile technology in tertiary institutions is designed to produce competent technologists in various automobile trades.

According to National Board for Technical Education (NBTE, 2003) an automobile technologist is expected to test, diagnose, service and completely repair any fault relating to the conventional automobile assembly main units and system to the manufacturers specification.

An automobile technologist is a person who applies scientific  knowledge in the design, selection of materials, construction, operation and maintenance of automobiles.

Automobile technologist carries test, diagnose and service the conventional automobile assembly main units and system to the  manufacturers specification.

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