Enhancing Innovative Skills in Welding and Fabrication Trade in Technical Colleges in Abia State

Chimere Benedict Iwumuo; Lawrence Edet Anametemfiok; Samuel Ihiaba

Authors

Iwumuo Chimere Benedict DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR CROSS RIVER STATE Author
Anametemfiok Lawrence Edet DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNICAL EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA Author
Ihiaba Samuel DEPARTMENT OF CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, CONFLUENCE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, OSARA, KOGI STATE Author

Keywords:

Innovative Skills, Welding and Fabrication, Technical College

Abstract

The study investigated the instructional techniques for enhancing innovative skills in welding and fabrication trade in technical colleges in Abia State. Three research questions guided the study, and three null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of probability. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. The population is 42 welding and fabrication instructors from 7 government approved technical colleges in Abia State. There was no sampling because the population of respondents was small. The instruments used for data collection was a structured questionnaire captioned: Instructional Techniques for Enhancing Innovative Skills in Welding &Fabrication Trade. The instrument was subjected to face validation. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was 0.82. Data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation, while t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses. The findings revealed no significant difference in the mean responses of the welding and fabrication instructors, on the instructional techniques for enhancing innovative skills in welding & fabrication trade.