Innovative Instructional Strategies for Enhancing the Teaching of Automobile Technology Education Courses in Colleges of Education for Self-Employment in South East, Nigeria

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

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
Nwaorgu, O DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING EDUCATION, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS EDUCATION, ABIA STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (TECHNICAL), AROCHUKWU Author
Nwankwo, C.O DEPARTMENT OF AUTOMOBILE/METALWORK TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, SCHOOL OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION, ABIA STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (TECHNICAL), AROCHUKWU Author

Keywords:

Innovative instructional strategies, automobile technology education courses,colleges of education and self-employment

Abstract

The study ascertained innovative instructional strategies for enhancing the teaching of automobile technology education coursesin colleges of education for self-employment in South East, Nigeria. Two research questions were posed, and two null hypotheses postulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance 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 0.77. 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 automobile technology educators agree to a high extent that blended learning strategies and interactive multimedia instructional strategiesenhance the teaching of automobile technology education courses for self-employment. The study further revealed that there is no significant difference in the mean ratings of automobile technology educators in Federal and State colleges of educationon the extent blended learning strategies and interactive multimedia instructional strategiesenhance the teaching of automobile technology education coursesfor self-employment in South East, Nigeria. The study concluded thatinnovative instructional strategies such as blended learning strategies and interactive multimedia instructional strategies enhance the teaching of automobile technology education courses for self-employment to a high extent. Among others, it was recommended that automobile technology educators in Federal and State colleges of education in South East, Nigeria should upskill themselves on the utilization of blended learning strategies and interactive multimedia instructional strategies to not only increase their instructional efficiency but also prepare students for the automobile industry.