Electrical Installation and Maintenance Works Teachers' Professional Development Needs for Effective Teaching in Kwara State

Abstract

The study was carried out to determine the electrical installation and maintenance work teachers ’professional development improvement needs for effective teaching in Niger and Kwara States, Nigeria. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study was 71 respondents comprises o f teachers of electrical installation and maintenance work and workshop assistants. There was no sampling because of manageable size of the population. A structure questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. Cron bach alpha reliability method was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument and 0.86 reliability coefficient value was obtained, two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated for the study. Mean was used to analyse the data for answering research questions while t-test was used, to test the hypotheses of no significant difference at 0.05 level of significance. The study found that 53 items on knowledge of subject matter, 47 items on teachers ’ practical skills, in Niger and Kwara States, Nigeria. There was no significant difference between the mean responses of electrical installation and maintenance work teachers and workshop assistant on the highly experienced EIMW teachers and those with low experience on the; I. Teachers knowledge of subject matter, 2. Teachers ’ practical skills. Based on the findings of the study it is recommended that all skills identified should be packaged to train the graduates of EIMW, there should be retraining of teachers irrespective of their ranks and tools, equipment1s should give to technical colleges. The following conclusions were drawn; opportunity available at technical colleges should be improved and expanded for self-reliance.