ICT Competencies Required by Automobile Technology Educators for Effective Teaching of Petrol Engine Maintenance in Colleges of Education in South East, Nigeria

S. N.  Wogu; P. I Okoye; C. O Nwankwo; O. Nwaorgu

Authors

Wogu, S. N DEPARTMENT OF AUTOMOBILE/METALWORK TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, SCHOOL OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION, ABIA STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (TECHNICAL), AROCHUKWU Author
Okoye, P. I DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY, AWKA Author
Nwankwo, C. O DEPARTMENT OF AUTOMOBILE/METALWORK TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, SCHOOL OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION, ABIA STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (TECHNICAL), AROCHUKWU Author
Nwaorgu, O DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING EDUCATION, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS EDUCATION, ABIA STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (TECHNICAL), AROCHUKWU Author

Keywords:

ICT competencies, Effective teaching, Petrol engine maintenance, Computer operational competencies and Interactive whiteboard competencies

Abstract

The study was conducted to ascertain the ICT competencies required by automobile technology educators for effective teaching of petrol engine maintenance in colleges in education in South East, Nigeria. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. The entire population of 68 automobile technology educators in the eight public colleges of education in South East, Nigeria was studied without sampling. The instrument for data collection was validated by three experts and the reliability was established using Cronbach alpha statistic which yielded a coefficient of 0.83. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that the computer operational competencies and interactive whiteboard competencies are highly required by automobile technology educatorsfor effective teaching of petrol engine maintenance in colleges of education in South East, Nigeria.The study concluded that computer operational competencies and interactive whiteboard competencies are highly required by automobile technology educators for effective teaching of petrol engine maintenance in colleges of education in South East, Nigeria. Among others, it was recommended that automobile technology educators in colleges of education should be retrained frequently on the use of ICTs to acquire the requisite computer operational competencies and interactive whiteboard competencies to produce automobile graduates who can diagnose and repair vehicles on time in workshops.