Practical Skills Needed by National Technical Certificate Students in Electrical Installation and Maintenance Work Operations for Job Creation in Rivers State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study determined practical skills needed by National Technical Certificate Students in Electrical Installation and Maintenance Work Operations for job creation in Rivers State Technical Colleges. Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. The design of the study was descriptive survey research deign. The area of the study was Rives State in the South-South geo-political zone of Nigeria. The population of the study was 84 respondents comprising 22 electrical technology teachers and 62 electrical technology NTC II students. There was no sampling. The instrument used for data collection was a well-structured instrument titled “Practical Skill needed by National Technical Certificate Students’ in Electrical Installation and Maintenance Work Operations Questionnaire (PSNSEIMWQ). The instrument was face validated by three experts. The reliability of the instrument was determined through Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient method. A total of 15 respondents who were not part of the population of the study were used in testing the reliability of the study. The reliability coefficient of 0.75 was obtained. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions, while t-res was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that electrical technology students’ have little Practical Skills in electrical installation and maintenance work for job creation. It was recommended among others that electrical technology teachers should engaged students’ undergoing training in electrical installation and maintenance work with more practical work/assignment on electrical installation and maintenance work operations.