DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF PSYCHOMOTOR COMPETENCY-BASED PROGRAMME FOR RETRAINING ARTISANS IN ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION WORKS IN SOUTH EAST NIGERIA

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Faculty: Education
Department: Vocational Education

CONTRIBUTORS:

Agbo, N. Martin
Okoye K.R.E.

ABSTRACT:

Electrical Installation Works is a trade that is majorly psychomotor-based wherein the training of artisans is achieved through apprenticeship in the informal sector. In Nigeria, this system of training is unorganised and has unstructured content. Thus, this study was conducted to develop and validate a psychomotor competency-based programme for retraining electrical installation works artisans in the South East of Nigeria. Six research questions and a null hypothesis guided the study. Research and development design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 397. The sample for phase IV (administration and collection of questionnaire) of this study was 132 respondents selected using stratified random sampling. Purposive sampling technique was used to select eleven artisans and two craftsmen for the trial-testing of the developed programme. The eleven artisans constituted the two groups used for trial testing of the developed programme. One group consisted of seven artisans retrained by a master craftsman using the developed programme while another group of four artisans were retrained conventionally by a master craftsman. Two sets of instruments were used for data collection for this study. They are Psychomotor Competency-based Retraining Programme for Electrical Installation Work Artisans Questionnaire (PCRPEIWAQ) and Psychomotor Competency-based Retraining Rating Instrument (PCRRI). The two instruments were face and content validated by three experts. The internal consistency of the PCRPEIWAQ was determined using Cronbach alpha reliability method and the overall reliability coefficient of 0.99 was obtained. The reliability of PCBRRI was obtained using Kendall’s coefficient of concordance after three raters used the instrument to rate five Electrical Installation Works Artisans (EIWAs). Kendall’s coefficient of 0.82 was obtained. One hundred and thirty two copies of the questionnaire were administered and a total of 118 copies of the questionnaire were retrieved from the respondents and this represents 89.4 percent return rate. The mean statistic was used to answer the research questions while the ANCOVA was employed for testing the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed 56 objectives, 38 contents, 58 training strategies, 86 training facilities and 51 evaluation techniques were agreed upon by the respondents for the retraining programme. The result of hypothesis tested revealed that there was a significant difference in the mean ratings of the performance of artisans retrained with the developed programme and those retrained without it. This implies that artisans retrained using the developed programme performed better than those retrained without it. To improve the psychomotor competency of artisans in electrical installation works, therefore, it was recommended, among others, that Licenced Electrical Contractors Association of Nigeria (LECAN) should henceforth enforce the use of the developed programme for training of EIWAs and also make it a requirement for securing licence to practise in Nigeria.

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