Evaluation of Students’ Academic Competence in Learning Technical Drawing and Workshop Practice in the Department of Electrical Technology Education

Abstract

The study evaluated the students’ academic competence in learning technical drawing and workshop practice in the Department of Electrical Technology Education, Kaduna polytechnic. Descriptive research design was used for the study and the population of the study was the 24 electrical electronic technology students in the department to include fifteen (15) male and nine (9) female students. No sampling was used as the population size was manageable. A well-structured questionnaire, divided into three sections, was used to collect data for the study. The first section collected the biodata of the respondents, and the two other sections, of eight (8) and ten (10) items, respectively, collected their responses. The Research instruments was pilot tested having an internal consistency of 0.75 which was measured using Cronbach Alpha statistics. After validation by three experts in the area of electrical and electronic technology. The data after administering was collected and analyzed using mean to answer the research questions and t-test to test the hypothesis at a 0.05 significance level. The result obtained indicated that students have adequate academic competence in learning technical drawing and workshop practice and no significant difference between the responses of male and female students on their academic competence in learning technical drawing and workshop practice in the department of electrical technology education, Kaduna polytechnic.