Abstract
The study investigated daylight illumination in the school workshop as a determinant for effective students’ taskperformance in workshop practice. 183 NCE Technical students in 300 Level which comprised of 73 and 112students from Federal Colleges of Education (Technical), Asaba and Omoku, Nigeria respectively during the2008/2009 academic session was used for the study The daylight Illumination Task Performance Questionnaire(DITPQ) was used to collect data. The students perceived that there was inadequate daylight illumination of theschool workshop and it negatively affected effective students’ task performance workshop practice; and nosignificant difference existed in the students’ mean perception scores of daylight illumination in the schoolworkshop as a determinant for their effective task performance in workshop practice.
Highlights
The need for students to acquire adequate and effective workshop practice has generated a lot of concern among technology and vocational teachers and this concern affects the Nigerian Certificate in Education (NCE) Technical programme
The following research questions derived from the purpose of the study was formulated as guide: To what extent will students from Federal Colleges of Education (Technical), at Asaba and Omoku respectively perceive daylight illumination as a determinate for effective students’ task performance in workshop practice? Based on the research question, a null hypothesis to be tested at 0.05 level of significance is as follows: There is no significant difference on the extent to which students from Asaba and Omoku respectively will perceive daylight illumination as a determinant for effective students’ task performance in workshop practice
The null hypothesis was tested with Z-test of independent group means at 0.05 level of significance for two tailed to establish whether there was no significant difference in the responses among students from Federal College of Education (Technical), Asaba and Omoku respectively on the extent to which they perceived daylight illumination as a determinant for effective task performance in workshop practice
Summary
The need for students to acquire adequate and effective workshop practice has generated a lot of concern among technology and vocational teachers and this concern affects the Nigerian Certificate in Education (NCE) Technical programme. The NCE Technical programme is a three year course of study offered in the Colleges of Education in Nigeria with a philosophy aimed at providing technical teachers with intellectual and professional background adequate for teaching technical subjects and to make them adaptable to any changing situation in technological development in the country but in the world at large (National Commission Colleges for Education (NCCE), 2008). Students in technology and vocational training can only acquire manipulative skills when they are exposed to effective workshop practice instead of only theoretical teaching. The practical training received by students in the school workshops should compare relatively with that of the industry where the trainee will subsequently work (Elobuike, 1998; and Duru, 2001)
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