Abstract:
This study compared the building finishes and services 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 finishes and services 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 of 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 0.87. 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 that there is no significant
difference between the building finishes skills acquired by Building Technology students of
Polytechnics and Colleges of Education North West, Nigeria. The study revealed that there is no
significant difference between the building services skills acquired by Building Technology students
of Polytechnics and Colleges of Education 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 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) to ensure their ability to
building services skills. The building technology teachers in polytechnics and colleges of education in
North West, Nigeria should be given more training on building finishes skills for them to be highly
skillful and self-reliant citizens. |
