Abstract:
This study compared Setting out and foundation skills acquired by the NCE III building students in
Colleges of Education and Polytechnics institutions awarding NCE in Northwest, Nigeria. The study
determined the building setting out and foundation skills acquired by the NCE III Building Technology
Students of Polytechnics and Colleges of education in northwest Nigeria. A survey research design
was used for the study in which the population of the study consisted 154 NCE III building technology
students. The study was carried out in Polytechnics and Colleges of education in northwest Nigeria.
Two research questions were raised and answered and two hypotheses were formulated and tested at
0.05 level of significance. A structured questionnaire of 74 items validated by three experts was used
as an instrument for Data collection, Cronbach alpha method was used to determine the reliability
coefficient in the instrument which yielded 0.85. The research questions were analyzed using mean
and standard deviation while z- test statistics were used in testing the Hypotheses of no significant
difference at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed among others that there is no significant
difference between the setting out of building skills acquired by Building Technology students of
Polytechnics and Colleges of Education in North West, Nigeria. There is no significant difference
between the laying of foundation skills acquired by Building Technology students of polytechnics and
Colleges of Education in North West, Nigeria. Based on the results the following recommendations
among others were made; The building technology teachers in polytechnics and colleges of education
in North West, Nigeria should be encouraged to maintain the standard in teaching the required building
setting out skills in their various schools. The students of building technology in polytechnics and
colleges of education in North West, Nigeria should be given more training on building foundation
skills. Where facilities are not available the government and stakeholders should provide. The students
of building technology in polytechnics and colleges of education in North West, Nigeria should be
made to adhere with the minimum standard of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE)
and National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE.) for them to be highly skillful and selfreliant citizens. |
