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Criteria for selecting building technology students for creative thinking skill acquisition in nigeria technical colleges

Creativity is not only central to the development of technical and vocational education programme, it is also a tool to national technological growth and development. Inculcation of creative thinking skill into the technical college curriculum therefore will equip the students, especially the buildi...

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Main Authors: Oke, Jonathan Ojo, Musta’amal, Aede Hatib
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2014
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L Education (General)
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spelling my.utm.613032017-03-30T07:19:23Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61303/ Criteria for selecting building technology students for creative thinking skill acquisition in nigeria technical colleges Oke, Jonathan Ojo Musta’amal, Aede Hatib L Education (General) Creativity is not only central to the development of technical and vocational education programme, it is also a tool to national technological growth and development. Inculcation of creative thinking skill into the technical college curriculum therefore will equip the students, especially the building technology students with thinking and innovative abilities. This study therefore focused on the criteria to put into consideration before selecting students for creative thinking skill development in Nigeria technical colleges .The study considered both the personal factors and social environmental factors . The design of the study was quantitative research which made use of questionnaire for data collection. The sample of the study consisted of 30 building technology teachers who were randomly selected. Two research questions were answered while two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the study showed that the personal factors to be considered include students’ perception about creativity; their thinking style and personal interest among others. Also, the social environmental factors among others include availability of material resources for creativity as well as availability of creative teachers. The null hypotheses were significant only on the responses of male and female teachers on consideration for past academic experience and home support on creativity development. 2014 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61303/1/AedeHatibMustaamal2014_CriteriaforSelectingBuildingTechnologyStudents.pdf Oke, Jonathan Ojo and Musta’amal, Aede Hatib (2014) Criteria for selecting building technology students for creative thinking skill acquisition in nigeria technical colleges. In: 1st International Educational Postgraduate Seminar Proceedings 3, 23-24 Nov, 2014, Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
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Oke, Jonathan Ojo
Musta’amal, Aede Hatib
Criteria for selecting building technology students for creative thinking skill acquisition in nigeria technical colleges
description Creativity is not only central to the development of technical and vocational education programme, it is also a tool to national technological growth and development. Inculcation of creative thinking skill into the technical college curriculum therefore will equip the students, especially the building technology students with thinking and innovative abilities. This study therefore focused on the criteria to put into consideration before selecting students for creative thinking skill development in Nigeria technical colleges .The study considered both the personal factors and social environmental factors . The design of the study was quantitative research which made use of questionnaire for data collection. The sample of the study consisted of 30 building technology teachers who were randomly selected. Two research questions were answered while two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the study showed that the personal factors to be considered include students’ perception about creativity; their thinking style and personal interest among others. Also, the social environmental factors among others include availability of material resources for creativity as well as availability of creative teachers. The null hypotheses were significant only on the responses of male and female teachers on consideration for past academic experience and home support on creativity development.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Oke, Jonathan Ojo
Musta’amal, Aede Hatib
author_facet Oke, Jonathan Ojo
Musta’amal, Aede Hatib
author_sort Oke, Jonathan Ojo
title Criteria for selecting building technology students for creative thinking skill acquisition in nigeria technical colleges
title_short Criteria for selecting building technology students for creative thinking skill acquisition in nigeria technical colleges
title_full Criteria for selecting building technology students for creative thinking skill acquisition in nigeria technical colleges
title_fullStr Criteria for selecting building technology students for creative thinking skill acquisition in nigeria technical colleges
title_full_unstemmed Criteria for selecting building technology students for creative thinking skill acquisition in nigeria technical colleges
title_sort criteria for selecting building technology students for creative thinking skill acquisition in nigeria technical colleges
publishDate 2014
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61303/1/AedeHatibMustaamal2014_CriteriaforSelectingBuildingTechnologyStudents.pdf
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