Assessment of Technical Skills Competency Needs of Electrical Installation and Maintenance Work Trade Teachers in Skills Acquisition Centres of Yobe State

Abstract

Yobe state Skills acquisition centre is a one year training programme designed to produce technical skilled manpower at craft level that should either take up job opportunities in public and private sector or be self-employed. The entry requirement for the skills acquisition centres is any o’level general certificate of education. For the programme to be successful, the teachers need to be technically competent.  Therefore, this paper intends to assess the technical skills competency needs of electrical installation and maintenance work trade teachers teaching in the skills acquisition centres of Yobe State. Three research questions and three hypotheses was formulated to guide the study. The assessment was based on the NABTEB module of electrical installation and maintenance work trade. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. Questionnaires titled “Technical Competency Needs of Electrical Installation and Maintenance Work Teachers in Skills acquisition centres” was developed by the researcher and used for the data collection. The instrument was administered to twenty eight (28) electrical installation and maintenance work trade teachers in the centres. The results showed that majority of the respondents believed that they needed technical competency retraining in all the trade module of electrical installation and maintenance work. The study recommended that teachers in the trade centres should go for retraining in order to impart employable skills to the trainees.

Keywords: acquisition, competency, skills, teachers, technical, trade