Project and E-Learning Teaching Methods and Students Skills Acquisition in Electrical Installation Works in Technical Colleges in Akwa Ibom State

Nsikak-Abasi Udofia,Aniefiok E Udofia

doi:10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n2p105

Nsikak-Abasi Udofia, Aniefiok E Udofia

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of e-Learning and project methods on acquisition of students’ skills in Electrical Installation works in Technical colleges in Akwa Ibom State. The design of the study was a non randomized pretest, posttest control design. The population of 90 electrical electronics students from the two Technical colleges in Akwa Ibom State was used for the study. A researcher made instrument titled Skill Acquisition Test (SAT) was used for the study. The reliability index of the instrument was 0.79. It consisted of 35 items. The statistical tools used for the analysis were mean and Analysis of covariance. The findings of the study included that there was a significant difference between the effects of e-Learning and project methods of teaching on students’ acquisition of skills in electrical installation works. The project method group performed better than the e-Learning group. The study recommended the use of the project method in teaching electrical installation but in line with modern demand advice that workshops should be organized by stakeholders in Education to acquaint teachers with skills in Information Communication Technology (ICT) for them to impact more positively on the students. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n2p105

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The project is a versatile teaching method which facilitates teaching and assessing learners’ performance simultaneously without impacting negatively on the learner who learns independently
The findings revealed a significant difference between e-Learning group and project group acquisition of psychomotor skills in electrical installation
The findings revealed a significant difference between e-Learning group and on the issue of testing of continuity of circuits; the results indicated that the students in the project method group performed better than those of the e-Learning group having mean scores of 6.15 and 5.56 as well as standard deviation of 1.66 and 1.30 respectively

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The project is a versatile teaching method which facilitates teaching and assessing learners’ performance simultaneously without impacting negatively on the learner who learns independently. The ability to think is developed in the learners who develop skills through practices and successes in solving problems. The teacher brings his wealth of experience, skills and knowledge of the tools, equipment and processes to bear on such learners. He helps direct the manipulative and construction work by showing, telling and demonstrating as needed instead of authoritative issuing instructions. Project evaluation is to investigate if the expected goals have been achieved at any stage of the project(Nsa,2002) It is important educationally, for a learner to be able to plan his/her work properly, execute the plan skillfully. Improvement of learners' ability to handle problem-solving situations is encouraged by the use of the project method (Nsa,2002)

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