Abstract:
The study investigated the emerging technical skills expected of students of Motor Vehicle Mechanic Works in the maintenance of transmission system in Rivers State. The population of the study consisted of 153 respondents, comprising 140 Motor Vehicle Industry technicians and 13 Motor Vehicle Technical Teacher in Rivers state. No sampling was done considering the small and manageable size of the population. Four research questions were posed while four null hypotheses were formulated. A self-developed instrument tagged Emerging Technical skills of Motor Vehicle Mechanic Works Questionnaire (ETSMVMQ) was used to gather information for the study. This instrument was face validated by three experts, while reliability coefficient of 0.87 was obtained using Cronbach-Alpha reliability technique. The research questions were answered using the mean and standard deviation, whereas t-test statistics was used to test the four null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Following the analysis, 10 emerging technical skills needed in maintaining the transmission system were identified. It was recommended among other things that the government should embark on training and retaining technical educators of motor vehicle mechanic in technical colleges in order to upgrade their capacity |
