SELF-REGULATORY LEARNING AND ACTIVE LEARNING APPROACHES ON STUDENTS OF TECHNICAL COLLEGE PYSCHOMOTOR ACHIEVEMENT IN FURNITURE CRAFT

Abstract

This study was designed to determine the effects of self-regulatory learning and active learning approaches on technical college students' psychomotor achievement in furniture craft. A pre-test, post-test, non-equivalent control group, the quasi-experimental research design was adopted. The study constituted a total number of 122 subjects, 63 for Active learning, while 59 for self-regulatory learning. The instrument used for data collection was Furniture Craft Psychomotor Achievement Test (FCPAT). The instruments were also subjected to face validation by two experts in furniture crate from the Department of Industrial and Technology Education, Federal University of Technology Mina. The FCPAT was trial-tested to determine its psychometric indices and reliability coefficient The trial test for determining the coefficient of stability of the FCPAT was carried out using the test Ye-test reliability method. The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficiem of FCPAT was found to be 78. Mean was used to answer the research questions; while ANCOVA was employed to test the hypotheses. The study revealed that students who taught furniture craft using the active learning approach had a higher mean score than students taught using the self-regulatory learning approach in the psychomotor achievement test. In each mean score of males taught furniture craft using active learning approach was higher than the mean score of females taught using the same active learsting approach in psychomotor achievement test. The differences in the mean scores of males and females in the psychomotor achievement test were found to be insignificant Consequently, the research recommended that; The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) should consider a review of the furniture craft curriculum for Technical Colleges to incorporate the active learning approach in the teaching of furniture craft among others. Keywords: Self-regulatory learning, Active learning, Furniture craft, Technical colleges, Students