Practical Skills Acquisition Facilities in Teaching and Learning of Bricklaying, Blocklaying and Concreting Programme.

Abstract

The study determined the adequacy and utilization of practical skills acquisition facilities in teaching and learning of bricklaying, blocklaying and concreting programme in technical colleges in Niger State. A survey design was employed for the study. 2 research questions and 2 hypotheses guided the study and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population for the study consisted of 43 building technology teachers, 6 workshop attendants and 242 final year students. The whole 43 building technology teachers, 6 workshop attendants were used and 120 final year students were randomly selected, 20 students from each of the technical college in Niger State offering bricklaying, blocklaying and concreting programme. In carrying out this a 44-item questionnaire were used and validated by three experts in the Industrial and Technology Education and Building Technology Department all in Federal University of Technology, Minna. The statistical tools used to analyze data were mean and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The findings revealed that workshop space is available but practical skills acquisition facilities such as plumb rule, straight edge, metre rule, Frenchman and other were not adequate and it also showed that not often in used as expected in technical colleges under the study. It is therefore recommended that building technology teachers of the programme should make effort in improvising this these tools locally for the purpose of effective teaching and learning of practical skills and the technical colleges within the state should partner with construction firms towards the provision of these facilities for teaching’/learning to take place effectively.