ASSESSMENT OF BASIC TECHNOLOGY TEACHERS ATTITUDE TOWARDS ADEQUACY AND UTILIZATION OF WORKSHOP FACILITIES IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN PLATEAU STATE

Abstract

The study assessed the Basic Technology teachers’ attitude towards adequacy and utilization of
workshop facilities in junior secondary schools in Plateau State. To achieve this, three research
objectives, with corresponding three research questions guided the study and no hypothesis was
tested in the study. A survey research design was employed, which involved the use of structured
questionnaire (ABTTAAUWF) and checklist to gather the required information from the target
population (sampling frame). The population of the study comprised of 170 Basic Technology
teachers in junior secondary school across the State and sample size determination table founded
by Krejcie and Morgan was used to come up with a sampling frame of 118 teachers and a total of
118 questionnaires were administered. The data collected for the study were analyzed using mean
and standard deviation present in SPSS software. The findings revealed that there are inadequate
workshop facilities for Basic Technology in junior secondary schools in the state, the findings also
indicated that the small workshop facilities available were not effectively utilized during teaching
and learning processes in Basic Technology as this assertion was supported with the grand mean
of 3.33 recorded in the result proving that the available facilities are not utilized by the teachers,
and finally, the result further identified some strategies required for effective utilization of
workshop facilities by the teachers of Basic Technology within Plateau State which includes;
Provision of adequate workshop facilities by schools, School management should monitored
teachers in class to ensure effective use of workshop facilities amongst other and its supported
with a grand mean of 3.48 recorded in the result affirming that all the items are strategies needed
for improving effective utilization of workshop facilities. Based on the findings of this study, it was
concluded that workshop facilities are not adequate, the inadequate facilities are not utilized and
some strategies for improving the facilities utilization were identified for Basic Technology
teachers. The study recommended amongst others that School management should make adequate
provision of fund to purchase the required workshop facilities for Basic Technology teachers