Development and Validation of an Instrument for Assessing Students Manipulative Skills in Bricklaying and Blocklaying Practice at Technical Colleges in Niger State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study is design to develop and validate an instrument for assessing students’ manipulative skills in Bricklaying and Blocklaying practice at technical colleges of Niger state. Two research question and one hypothesis guided the study. A research and development design was employed for the study. The study was carried out in all the state owned and federal technical colleges of the state. a total of 67 respondents comprising 47 teachers and 20 registered builders were used as population for the study. A structured questionnaire was developed by the researcher and used for data collection. 23 observable competencies which often value and assess in their students during practical work were identified with appropriate rating scale for the instrument. Cronbach Alpha, mean and standard deviation were used as the statistical tools to analyse the data, while t-test statistic was employed to test the null hypothesis of the study at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed among others that all manipulative skills were considered appropriate for inclusion in the final Instrument for Assessing Students Manipulative Skills in Bricklaying and Blocklaying Practice (IASMSBBP). It was recommended that bricklaying and blocklaying practice teacher should employ the use of developed instrument in assessing students’ manipulative skills at technical college level and de-emphasis the use of only product assessment.