FACTORS AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN TECHNICAL DRAWING (A CASE STUDY OF GOVERNMENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE ASSAKIO) NASARA WASTA TE

Abstract

ABSTRACT The project was conducted to find out the factors affecting the low performance of students in technical drawing (a case study of Government Technical College Assakio, Nasarawa State). It has been noticed that only 20% passed technical drawing in 1997 and 270/0 passed in 1998. To elicit the pertinent information for the study, two set of questionnaires were drawn, one for the teachers and! the other for the students to find out factors that contributed to this low percentage. Data collected were analyzed based on the average mean of responses and concl~sions were drawn showing that the performance of students has been poor due to lack of teaching materials and facilities, lack of trained teachers and those even trained are not keen in teaching because the facilities were not effective teaching of the students. Based on the findings the researcher .recommended among others that Government should supply instructional materials to the technical college, the teachers should be given enough orientation in the area of production and uti I ization of materials. And professional trained technical teacher should be employed to teach technical drawing subject, for proper application of skills in technical drawing. ..