ASSESSMENT OF UP-SKILLING NEEDS OF WOODWORK TEACHERS IN NIGER STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGES FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

This study was designed to assess up-skilling needs of woodwork teachers in Niger state technical Colleges. Specifically the study determined the skill required, skill possessed and p-skilling needs of teachers. Three research questions were formulated to guide the study and a 30-item structured questionnaire was used for data collection The research questions assessed the skill required, skill possessed and up-skilling needs of technical colleges teachers in Niger state. The questionnaire was validated by 2 Woodwork lecturer from the Industrial and Technology Education Department: Federal University of Technology, Minna. The questionnaire was filled by teachers and was used for the analysis using IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), version 20. Mean and standard deviation were used for answering two research questions. While Discrepancy model was used to determine the up-skilling needs as a difference between skill required and skill possessed by soughting for the mean difference between skill required and skill possessed using t-test. The findings revealed that the skill possessed by woodwork teachers is low compared to the skill required by the teachers which indicates that there is need for up-skilling. Based on these findings, some recommendations were made, among which are that the state Ministry of Education should use the skill need to upgrade curriculum of technical colleges and the management of the colleges under study should use the identified skills needed to organize a capacity building workshop for teachers.