Empowering construction technology education stakeholders through research

Abstract

The study sought for strategies for empowering construction technology education stakeholders through research. Two (2) research purposes, questions and null hypotheses were raised to guide the study. A modified Delphi design was used, covering a population of 181 which comprise construction technology teachers, administrator of science and technology based institutions and construction technology professionals in Benue state. A Delphi panel of 45 was purposively sampled for the study and a 4-point scale of 11 item questionnaire titled: Empowering Construction Technology Education Stakeholders (ECTES) was used as instrument for data collection. The descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used to answer all the research question whilst the one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was deployed to test null hypotheses at .05 significance level. Findings from data analysed revealed amongst others that: Government need to set up construction technology research award council, agencies of government should regularly conduct training for construction technology education stakeholders on new trends in research. Government and private organization should always provide grants for research in construction technology. Based on the findings, recommendations were made that: government should establish construction technology research institute and construction technology research award council among many others.