Open AccessSprouting employability skills in building technology students’ using cooperative learning approaches in Nigerian Polytechnics
Author(s) -
Jane Itohan Oviawe,
Agnes Omokhekpe Anetekhai
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of assessment and evaluation in education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2600-870X
pISSN - 2232-1926
DOI - 10.37134/ajatel.vol10.1.7.2020
Subject(s) - employability , cronbach's alpha , null hypothesis , mathematics education , population , reliability (semiconductor) , psychology , statistic , data collection , medical education , descriptive statistics , test (biology) , engineering , mathematics , pedagogy , statistics , medicine , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , environmental health , quantum mechanics , biology
This study investigated the areas of cooperative learning approaches for sprouting employability in polytechnic building technology students’ in Nigeria for the expertise of practice upon graduating from school using descriptive survey research design. Two research questions and four null hypotheses guided the study. The population for the study consisted of 99 building technology lecturers that offer building technology programmes in Federal, State and Private Polytechnics in South-East and South-South Nigeria. Since the population was not too large, there was no sampling. The instrument used for data collection was a 36-item questionnaire derived from the literature reviewed. Five experts validated the instrument. Cronbach alpha reliability method was used to determine the reliability of the instrument and a reliability coefficient of 0.87 was obtained. The research questions were answered using Mean statistic, while the null hypotheses were tested using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and z-test at .05 level of significance. The findings revealed among others that lecturers utilize all the aspects of cooperative learning approaches; and that all the employability skills required by building technology students/graduates can be developed using cooperative learning approaches. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended among others that assessment of building technology students should be all-encompassing to include the development and mastery of employability skills for functionality in the ever dynamic and global workplace.