Abstract
In the face of increasing unemployment partly due to decreasing employability skills of Nigeria polytechnic students, many graduates of Nigeria polytechnic have a dwindle self-efficacy. 420 HND 2 polytechnic engineering students in north central states of Nigeria were surveyed. Data were collected using questionnaire consisting of 4 Likert-type statements. Student’s self-efficacy was measured by asking students to rate themselves from 1 (“No confidence”) to 4 (“Complete confidence”).The self-efficacy of engineering students in Nigeria polytechnic were examined using mean and standard deviation. The mean score for Self-appraisal, Occupational Information, Goal selection, Planning and Problem solving are as follow (3.32), (2.97), (3.28), (3.082) and (3.012) respectively with self-appraisal scoring higher than the others. These findings enhance our understanding of the importance of self-efficacy in the development of employability skills of polytechnic engineering students in Nigeria, more importantly self-appraisal had the highest mean score. The practical implication is that the teaching style will have to shift from being teacher-centred leaning to student-centred learning in order to address and accommodate the need of student’s self-efficacy. Key words: Self-efficacy; Employability; Employability skills; Nigerian polytechnics; Engineering students
Highlights
Self-efficacy is the beliefs about ability to function and accomplish specific tasks without assistance from others, to make decisions and belief in them, in others words it is the confidence to achieve goals through personal efforts, persistence in the face of challenges and coming out with original solutions (Bezuidenhout, 2011)
This study set out to examine the self-efficacy of engineering students in Nigeria polytechnic
The results indicate that engineering students in Nigeria polytechnics have acquired high level of self-efficacy scoring above average in all constructs that were used to measure self-efficacy
Summary
Self-efficacy is the beliefs about ability to function and accomplish specific tasks without assistance from others, to make decisions and belief in them, in others words it is the confidence to achieve goals through personal efforts, persistence in the face of challenges and coming out with original solutions (Bezuidenhout, 2011). Self-efficacy is what an individual believes he or she can accomplish using his or her skills under certain circumstances (Yang & Lu, 2007). More (Redmond, 2013) self-efficacy can be said to be the believe of an individual to achieve using his or her ability under certain situation. The further stressed that learning is affected by students own thoughts and self-beliefs and the interaction of the classroom context. It implies that a person consciously select construct actions and decides the final behavior. For this purpose they can access concrete events as well as symbolic representation of activities, goals and future occurrences
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