Capacity Building Needs of Nigeria Certificate in Education (Technical) Woodwork Lecturers in the use of Digital Circular Saw Machine

Abstract

This study was designed to determine the Capacity Building Needs of Woodwork Technology Education Lecturers in using Digital Circular Saw Machine (DCSM) in North-West States, Nigeria. Two research questions were answered while seven null hypotheses formulated to guide the study when tested at 0.05 level of significant. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population for the study was 84 subjects comprising of 40 Woodwork Technology Education Lecturers and 21 Woodwork Technology Education Administrators in 7 Colleges of Education/ Polytechnic offering NCE (Technical) Programme as well as 23 Woodwork Workshop Employers (Master Craftsmen) in the 7 North-West State. A 20 items researcher designed questionnaire instrument was used for data collection the instrument was validated by 5 Woodwork Technology Education Experts. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha reliability method to find the internal consistency that yield 0.86. The data Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was employed to text the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance using SPSS version 23. The findings of the study revealed that Woodwork Technology Education Lecturers Teaching NCE (Technical) Woodwork Technology Education Programme Need Capacity Building in ability to create circumferential interior from exterior profiling on sliding windows and doors with average mean of 3.40 and also, finding on setting up, programming, operation of computerize DCSM fro mitre-cutting operation with average mean value 3.40. there was no significant difference in the mean response between Woodwork Technology Education Lecturers And Woodwork Technology Education Administrators at the State College of Education/State Polytechnic and Federal College of Education/Federal Polytechnics on the Capacity Building Needs of Woodwork Technology Education Lecturers on ripping operation with digital circular saw machine and also, there was no significant difference in the mean response between Woodwork Technology Education Lecturers and Woodwork Technology Education Administrators at the State College of Education/State Polytechnics ad Federal College of Education/Federal Polytechnics on the capacity building needs of Woodwork Technology Education lecturer on mitre-utting operation with digital circular saw machine. It was concluded that Woodwork Technology Education Lecturers Need Capacity Building on setting of DCSM parameters, such as cutting speed, allowance tolerance, programming, operation with computerized DCSM for mitre-cutting operation. Based on the findings, it was recommended that: The National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) and National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) should increase grooving and other woodworking operations using digital circular saw machine (DCSM) in NCE (Technical) woodwork technology education programme minimum standard and also, woodwork technology education administrators should organize seminars and workshops for woodwork technology education lecturers on how to use digital circular saw machine (DCSM) especially, on different woodworking operations.