Perceptive Teaching Approaches and Technical College, Students Retention in Electronic Works in Akwa Ibom State

Abstract

This study sought to determine the effect of perceptive teaching and technical college students’ retention in electronics works in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. A quasi-experimental pre-test post-test control design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 198 senior technical two students in the six public technical colleges in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. A random sampling technique was used for selection of two technical colleges for the study. The sample size comprised 98 students from two intact classes. The instrument used for data collection was “Perception Teaching Approaches and Students Retention Questionnaire (PTASRQ)” demonstration method was developed by the researcher for the treatment of the experimental and the control groups. The research questions were analysed using mean and standard deviation while Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study, among other findings, shows that there is a significant difference between the mean of students’ scores in Electronics Works when exposed to perception teaching method than in demonstration teaching method, with students in the perception teaching class performing better than the students in demonstration class. It is recommended, among others, that the Electronics Works teachers should adopt the use of perception teaching for students retention in Electronic Works in the study area