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
