Training Needs of Polytechnics Electrical/Electronic Technology Lecturers in Kwara and Niger States

Abstract

The study was designed to identify the training needs of electrical/electronic technology lecturers in Kwara and Niger state polytechnics. The study adopted a cross sectional survey research methods. The population of the study was 95 electrical/electronic technology lecturers in four polytechnics in Kwara and Niger state. Four research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The instrument used for data collection was 67 items questionnaire. The research instrument was validated by three experts in the field of electrical/electronic technology. The reliability of the instrument was carried out using Cronbach Alpha formula and the reliability co-efficient was found to be 0.75. The data was analysed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study found out that electrical/electronic lecturers need training in the identified cognitive, psychomotor, affective and entrepreneurial skills to improve their performance in teaching. The study further revealed that there was no significant difference in the mean ratings of the responses of male and female polytechnic Electrical/Electronic lecturers on the perceived importance and expressed performance of relevant skills and knowledge in electrical/electronic technology: Consequently; it was recommended among others that the National Board for Technical Education and Polytechnics Administrators should provide training opportunities for polytechnics lecturers on perceived importance and expressed performance of relevant skills and knowledge identified as important and performed.