CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
To achieve the national objectives, and the objectives of vocational and technical education in Nigeria there is the need to ensure good quality in the teaching and evaluation of students and is crucial to helping students in high academic standards; improving of quality and examination of vocational and technical education has become very necessary because most people who pass through training in this type of education are unable to perform adequately as they ought to ; unemployment has become so rampart and poverty has engulf most of them.
Quality can be described as standards of something as compared to other things; is the degree of goodness or excellence. High quality teaching/instruction and examination can be regarded as the goodness or effectiveness in teaching which can result in the student learning and satisfaction.
In Nigeria, vocational and technical education is however offered in the junior and senior secondary levels and on successful completion of senior secondary, students can proceed to specialized areas in tertiary institutions. At the junior secondary level subjects such as introductory technology, practical agriculture, home economics and business studies are offered as pre-vocational subjects. At senior secondary level, subjects such as agricultural science, mental work, electronics, technical drawing, woods, auto mechanics, books keeping, type-writing food and nutrition, college and textiles, and home management indicated in the national policy on education.
As science courses require laboratories and workshop, so vocational and technical education requires provision of facilities, adequate funding among others.
The overall good of quality teaching and examination in vocational education is to improve opportunities for high quality learning which is evaluated through performance. vocational and technical education has the following functions:
The functions as stated in the new national policy on education (1981) include the following:
1. To provide manpower in applied science, technology and commerce particularly at sub-professional levels.
2. To provide the technical knowledge and vocational skills necessary for agriculture, industrial, commercial and economic development.
3. To provide people who can apply scientific knowledge to the improvement and solution of environmental problems for the convenience of man.
4. To give an introduction to professional studies in engineering and other technologies.
5. To give training and impart the necessary skills leading to the production of craftsmen, technicians and other skilled personal who will be enterprising and self-reliant, and to enable young men and women to have intelligent understanding of the increasing complexity of technology.
Vocational and technical education cannot function properly unless there is high quality in the teaching and examination of students in vocational and technical education. With the introduction of the new national policy on education, namely 6-3-3-4 system, teachers, students and even the public at large have become aware of the need to develop usable skills required to operate our various industries.
Specifically the study seeks to:
1. Examine the various methods of teaching vocational education in schools.
2. Examine the various factors affecting quality teaching and examination of vocational subjects.
1. What are the factors leading to the quality teaching and assurance in the teaching and examination of vocational education?
2. What are the methods of teaching vocational education in schools?
3. What are the factors militating against quality teaching and examination in vocational education?
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Vocational education can be described as the aspect of education which is concerned with the preparation of skilled manpower. It is a form of education, training or retraining which is directed towards developing the learner to become productive in a paid employment or in self employment. It is therefore the bedrock in which a country’s socio-economic, technological and cultural advancement must be built.To achieve the national objectives, and the objectives of vocational and technical education in Nigeria there is the need to ensure good quality in the teaching and evaluation of students and is crucial to helping students in high academic standards; improving of quality and examination of vocational and technical education has become very necessary because most people who pass through training in this type of education are unable to perform adequately as they ought to ; unemployment has become so rampart and poverty has engulf most of them.
Quality can be described as standards of something as compared to other things; is the degree of goodness or excellence. High quality teaching/instruction and examination can be regarded as the goodness or effectiveness in teaching which can result in the student learning and satisfaction.
In Nigeria, vocational and technical education is however offered in the junior and senior secondary levels and on successful completion of senior secondary, students can proceed to specialized areas in tertiary institutions. At the junior secondary level subjects such as introductory technology, practical agriculture, home economics and business studies are offered as pre-vocational subjects. At senior secondary level, subjects such as agricultural science, mental work, electronics, technical drawing, woods, auto mechanics, books keeping, type-writing food and nutrition, college and textiles, and home management indicated in the national policy on education.
As science courses require laboratories and workshop, so vocational and technical education requires provision of facilities, adequate funding among others.
The overall good of quality teaching and examination in vocational education is to improve opportunities for high quality learning which is evaluated through performance. vocational and technical education has the following functions:
The functions as stated in the new national policy on education (1981) include the following:
1. To provide manpower in applied science, technology and commerce particularly at sub-professional levels.
2. To provide the technical knowledge and vocational skills necessary for agriculture, industrial, commercial and economic development.
3. To provide people who can apply scientific knowledge to the improvement and solution of environmental problems for the convenience of man.
4. To give an introduction to professional studies in engineering and other technologies.
5. To give training and impart the necessary skills leading to the production of craftsmen, technicians and other skilled personal who will be enterprising and self-reliant, and to enable young men and women to have intelligent understanding of the increasing complexity of technology.
Vocational and technical education cannot function properly unless there is high quality in the teaching and examination of students in vocational and technical education. With the introduction of the new national policy on education, namely 6-3-3-4 system, teachers, students and even the public at large have become aware of the need to develop usable skills required to operate our various industries.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Despite the fact that vocational education has existed more than 20 years in Nigeria, the needed facilitation of economic boom through quality teaching and examination of vocational education in secondary and tertiary school for creative thinking and production of skilled manpower for a stable economy. Why has this laudable idea not given the needed profit and result. This is the thrust of this study. Therefore, the statement of the problem is to determine the various ways of achieving quality in the teaching and examination of vocational education in Warri Metropolis.1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The major purpose of this study is to evaluate how quality teaching and examination of vocational education can be achieved in Warri metropolis of Delta State.Specifically the study seeks to:
1. Examine the various methods of teaching vocational education in schools.
2. Examine the various factors affecting quality teaching and examination of vocational subjects.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This study will be beneficial to teachers, students, heads of vocational department and school administrators. It can be helpful to the federal, state and local government as a motivational force towards improving and assisting vocational schools.1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The study seeks to find answers to the following research questions;1. What are the factors leading to the quality teaching and assurance in the teaching and examination of vocational education?
2. What are the methods of teaching vocational education in schools?
3. What are the factors militating against quality teaching and examination in vocational education?
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