CAPACITY BUILDING APPROACHES FOR ENHANCING QUALITY ASSURANCE OF TEACHERS OF TVET PROGRAMMES FOR JOB CREATION AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

This study identified capacity building approaches for enhancing quality assurance of teachers of TVET programmes for job creation and national development. Three objectives guided the study.  Survey research design was used for this study. The population of the study was 203 consisting of lecturers in the universities and Colleges of Education registered with Nigerian Vocational Association (NVA, 2014). NVA is a body of professional vocational educators in Nigerian tertiary institutions. There was no sampling in the study. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire titled “TVET Teachers Capacity Building Questionnaire (TCBQ)” developed by the researchers. The instrument was content and face validated by three experts while Cronbach’s Alpha reliability method was used to determine the internal consistency of the TCBQ items. The reliability coefficient obtained was 0.85.  The researchers administered the questionnaire to the respondents through their e-mail contact. Mean was used to answer the research questions, while the t-test was used to test the hypothesis. It was found that 7 approaches could be adopted by teacher, 11 approaches by school administration and 12 approaches by the government for capacity building of teacher for quality assurance in TVET for job Creation and National Development. It is therefore recommended among others that teachers of TVET programmes should adopt the approaches identified in this study to enhance their quality assurance for job Creation and National Development.