Competencies Needed for Improving Teaching Among Lecturers of Polytechnics in North-Western Nigeria
The study was carried out to determine the competencies needed for improving teaching among lecturers of polytechnics in North-western Nigeria. A polytechnic was established in Nigeria to train individuals to learn a specific skill using competent lecturers for employment or self-reliance after gr...
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| Language: | English |
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2023
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9214/1/J15994_3418460aeb051245f44f4e56f4136b42.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9214/ https://doi.org/10.30880/jtet.2023.15.01.001 |
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| Summary: | The study was carried out to determine the competencies needed for improving teaching among lecturers
of polytechnics in North-western Nigeria. A polytechnic was established in Nigeria to train individuals to learn a
specific skill using competent lecturers for employment or self-reliance after graduation. These lecturers are very
essential to the quality of students of electrical/ electronic technology in the polytechnics. However, technology
dynamism has become a serious challenge for the lecturers to perform their teaching tasks. Hence the need for
lecturers to continually improved on their competence and knowledge of the subject matter content they teach. The
study is also to identify any difference of competency needed among the institutions. 122 electrical/electronic
lecturers from nine universities were purposely selected as respondents for the study whose consisted of 55 lecturers
from five state polytechnics and 67 lecturers from four federal polytechnics. The study adopted survey research
design and used structured questionnaire as the main instrument for the data collection. The questionnaires were
developed and distributed to respondents. Mean and improvement needed index analysis were used for data analysis
to achieve the research objective whilst t-test was used to test the significance difference between the institutions. It
was found that electrical/electronic lecturers in polytechnics need improvement of their competencies related to
knowledge and skills in the subject matter. However, there was no significant difference of competency needed
between the lecturers in state and federal polytechnics on the teaching subject matter. The implication of the finding
is that the location of the lecturers did not significantly affect their opinion in the competencies. In conclusion,
lecturers of electrical/electronic technology from the polytechnics has low competency in executing technical task
assigned to them within the study area which required adequate investigation by determining the competencies of
lecturers who happen to be the main implementers of the electrical/electronic programme. Therefore, it is
recommended that the schools administrators should continually organized workshop and training for lecturers to
build their capacity in order for the lecturers to always develop their competencies to effectively teach the contents
of the subject assigned to them. |
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