Development and Validation of Painting Skills Appropriate for Building Construction Students for Self-Employment in Technical Colleges in Southern Senatorial District of Cross River State (Published)
This study sought to develop and validate painting skills appropriate by building construction students for self-employment in Technical Colleges in Southern Senatorial District of Cross River State. The research and development design was employed for the study. The population used for the study was 563 respondents, comprised 12 building construction teachers, seven experts (Lecturers) and 544 painters from the 51 registered painting companies in the Southern Senatorial District. The sample size used for the study was 335 respondents. Building construction teachers and experts were not sample, however simple random sampling technique was used to sample 316 painters. The instrument that was used for data collection was researcher structure questionnaire titled: “Painting Skills Appropriate for Self-employment (PASASE)”. The instrument contained 13 items, 5 points Likert type scale of Very appropriate =5, appropriate =4, Fairly appropriate =3, Inappropriate =2 and Very Inappropriate =1. The instrument was validated by three experts while Cronbach Alpha reliability was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument which yielded a reliability coefficient 0.81. The data collected were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, Lawshe Content Validity Ratio and One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The result shows that all the 13 items relating to painting skills were considered appropriate. The cumulative Content Validity Ratio gave an overall value of 0.956, indicating a high content validity of the painting skills. It was concluded and recommended among others that Teachers should adopt the developed painting skills for teaching painting in Technical College.
Keywords: Development, Self-employment, Technical Colleges, Validation, building construction, painting skills
Technical Human Capital Obsolescence and Age Relationship in the Building Construction Industry: A case of Nigeria (Published)
The Building Construction Industry (BCI) is among the businesses that depend on the agility and viability of the workforce. Consequently, it invests heavenly in the development of employees’ knowledge and skills, otherwise known as human capital. However, individual’s human capital is bound to deteriorate owning to atrophy (nonuse of skills) and inevitable changes, which could be as a result of ageing process, wear, injuries, and/or illnesses, in the individual. This deterioration is known technical human capital obsolescence. Thus, using descriptive study, this paper investigates technical human capital obsolescence in the BCI and its relationship with workers’ aging. Three research questions guided the study and questionnaire was administered to 387 randomly selected BCI workers. 278 questionnaires representing 71.83 percent were successfully completed and returned. The data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, Pearson Correlation Coefficient, Kruskal-Wallis H test statistics and SPSS software. The findings indicate, among other things, that, individual’s technical obsolescence due to wear is not a function of age. It is recommended that the industry and her workers intermittently evaluate their skills with the view of finding the specific obsolescence and providing measure(s) to alleviate its effects in the industry.
Keywords: : Human Capital, Industry, Nigeria, Technical, age relationship, building construction, obsolescence