Impact of Siwes on Electrical Technology Education Students’ Skill Acquisition

Abstract

This study investigated the impact of students’ industrial work experience scheme (SIWES) on electrical technology education students’ skill acquisition in Ebonyi State of Nigeria. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. It was a survey research design and the entire population of electrical technology education lecturers and SIWES students were used,being a total of 56.No sampling was carried out due to the handle-ablesize of the population. A structured and face validated questionnaire was used for data collection with the computed coefficient of stability being 0.97. The research questions were answered with mean and standard deviation while the hypotheses were tested with student’s t-test statistic at 0.05 level of significance. Fifteen major electrical practical skills were found to be impacted by SIWES together with twenty good work-habit, public relations and social services skills.

Keywords: electrical, technology education, Siwes, skills, acquisition, IT.