Developing Plastering Skills Appropriate by Building Construction Students for Self-Employment in Technical Colleges in Southern Senatorial District of Cross River State

Abstract

This study sought to develop and validate plastering skills appropriate by building construction students for self-employment in Technical Colleges in Southern Senatorial District of Cross River State. The research design that was employed for this study was descriptive survey research design. The study was carried out in five local government areas in . The population for the study wads 672 e dress sdColleges in the , seven experts (lecturers) (four from University of Cross River State and three from College of Education, Akamkpa) and 653 masons from the 42 registered building construction companies in the Southern Senatorial District of Cross River State. The sample size used for the study was 250. This comprised 12 building construction teachers, seven experts and 231 masons from the 42 registered building construction companies in the district. Teachers and experts were not sampled; however, simple random sampling was used to sample 231 masons. The instrument that was used for data collection was researcher structure questionnaire titled: “Plastering Skills Appropriate by Building Construction Students for Self-employment (PLASABUCONSSE).” The instrument contained 31 items, 5 points Likert type scale. Cronbach Alpha reliability was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument which yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.85. The data collected were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while ANOVA was used to test the null hypothesis at .05 level of significance. Items with mean of 3.00 and above were considered appropriate while items with mean below 3.00 were considered not appropriate. From the study, 14 items out of 16 lime plastering tasks were considered appropriate for lime plastering skills for self-employment while 13 items out of 15 cement plastering tasks were considered appropriate for cement plastering skills for self-employment. Conclusions were drawn and, based on the findings, it was recommended among others that The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) as well as sister agencies should adopt the developed plastering tasks for teaching plastering skills in building construction.