Improving Instructional Delivery in Technical Vocational Education and Training for Skills Development in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria.

Abstract

The study sought a find out ways of improving instructional delivery in TVET for skills development in the era of covid-19 pandemic. Two research questions and two null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. A cross sectional research design was used with a population of 118 TVET trainers (94 TVET teachers and 24 technicians) from four randomly selected tertiary institution in Nigeria. No sampling was done because the population was manageable. A 29- item structured questionnaire tagged “Instructional Delivery in TVET (IDTVET)” drawn on a 4- point scale was used for data collection by the researchers. The research instrument was validated by three experts in the department of Technology and Vocational Education, Nnamdi Azikwe University, Akwa. A split half method was used to determine the reliability of the instrument which gave a reliability coefficient of 0.89 using Spearman Brown prophecy formula after analyzing the data indicating that the questionnaire was reliable for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while the t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of study depicts that the respondents all agreed that a lot of challenges such as abrupt introduction of distance/online teaching and learning occasioned by lockdown were TVET programmes should be strengthened to respond to future disruptions in teaching and learning through training and returning in digital tools and modern learning technologies.