Development and Validation of Timber Skirting Skills Relevant by Building Construction Students for Self-employment in Technical Colleges in SouthernSenatorial District of Cross River State

Abstract

This study sought to develop and validate skirting skills relevant by building construction
students for self-employment in Technical Colleges in Southern Senatorial District of Cross
River State. The research design adopted for the study was research and development design.
The population used for the study was 600, comprised 12 building construction teachers, seven
experts (Lecturers) and 581 woodworkers from the 42 registered building construction
companies in the Southern Senatorial District of Cross River State. Building construction
teachers and experts were not sample, however simple random sampling technique used to
sample 30 building construction companies and 300 woodworkers from the sample companies.
The sample size used for the study was 319 respondents. Two research questions and one
hypothesis guided the study. The instrument that was used for data collection was researcher
structure 14 items, 5 points Likert type scale questionnaire titled: “Timber Skirting Skills
Relevant for Self-employment (TISRESE)”. The instrument was validated by three experts,
Cronbach Alpha reliability was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument
which yielded a reliability coefficient 0.88. The data collected were analyzed using mean,
standard deviation, Lawshe Content Validity Ratio and One-Way Analysis of Variance
(ANOVA) at .05 level of significance. The result of the analysis shows that all the 25 items
relating to skirting skills were considered relevant by the respondents. The cumulative Content
Validity Ratio gave an overall value of 0.956, indicating a high content validity of the skirting
skills. It was concluded and recommended among others that teachers should adopt the
developed timber skirting skills for teaching timber skills in Technical College.