Assessment of Students’ Participation in Planning Studio at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria

Abstract

Studio work is designed into the curriculum of Urban and Regional Planning in Nigerian Universities as one of the core courses to acquire professional skill in planning education. This helps the students to apply theoretical aspects of the profession to real life settings to aids their practical learning skill and equip them to adapt to challenges and scenarios in the profession. This study assessed planning students’ participation in studio work to determine various factors that influence their participation. Questionnaire were administered among 292 planning students at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology for data collection. Multi-stage and purposive sampling techniques were adopted. Only 206 planning students which is 70.5% response rate successfully completed their questionnaires. Factor analysis, Likert scale, relative index and linear regression were used for data analysis. The result revealed that only students’ mode of admission has significance influence of 0.356 on students’ participation in studio work at the significance level of 0.05. One-way ANOVA test revealed no difference exist (P<0.05) in terms of students’ participation in studio work based on their socioeconomic attributes except the marital status. The students’ level of participation revealed the average mean of 3.16 which implies that, majority of the students participate in studio work. However, advice from Lecturers or Technologists on studio work has less significance compared with other factors. The study suggested among others the need for Lecturers and Technologists to build and improve their personal relationship with students to influence their participation and achieve greater productivity.