Open AccessFailure Factors Quality in Vocational and Technical Education in Nigeria Higher Institutions: The Use of Rasch Model
Author(s) -
Olojuolawe Sunday Rufus,
Mr. Tunde Ajayi Babatunde Joseph,
Mr Awolumate Emmanuel Olorunfemi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of management and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2394-0913
DOI - 10.35940/ijmh.i0884.054920
Subject(s) - vocational education , respondent , rasch model , quality (philosophy) , exploratory research , mathematics education , hierarchy , exploratory factor analysis , medical education , psychology , order (exchange) , pedagogy , political science , sociology , psychometrics , medicine , business , social science , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , philosophy , epistemology , finance , law
The study is a case study of the student academic performance in vocational and technical education at the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti. The academic performance of students has been abysmally low. This has grossly impacted the students’ enrolment in the departments and the College in general. The paper identifies the major causes of the failures in vocational and technical education courses in the College. The survey research employing exploratory sequential mixed method was used. It involves 12 Participants and 50 respondents. The Nvivo12 software was used to obtain the word cloud. The Rasch Analysis Model was applied to obtain the Person and Item separations, reliabilities and the respondent’s agreement. The hierarchy details the factors in order relativity and difficulty level. Findings shows that both internal and external factors are the main sources of students’ failure.