Effects of Self-Awareness on Woodwork Students’ Academic Performance in Technical Colleges

This study was designed to determine the effects of self-awareness on the academic performance of Woodwork Trade students in Technical Colleges in Niger State, Nigeria. A pre-test, post-test, non-equivalent control group quasi-experimental design was employed. Four out of seven technical colleges in the state and four intact classes were sampled. The study involved 68 students in total, with 37 students assigned to the experimental group and 31 to the control group. Cognitive constructivist instructional techniques based on students’ self-awareness was used as treatment for the experimental groups while lecture method was administered to the control groups. Three research questions and one null hypothesis was tested at the 0.05 level of significance to guide the study. The research instruments were validated by three experts from the Department of Industrial and Technical Education, Federal University of Technology, Minna. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was established at 0.76 using the test-retest method and Cronbach’s alpha statistics. Mean scores were used to answer the research questions, while independent t-test statistics were used to analyse research data and test the null hypothesis. The findings revealed that students taught Woodwork Trade using the cognitive constructivist instructional techniques based on students’ self-awareness approach achieved higher mean scores than those taught using the conventional teaching method in both cognitive and psychomotor achievement tests. In all cases, the higher mean scores were found to be statistically significant. Furthermore, male students taught using the self-awareness approach recorded higher mean scores than female students in the cognitive achievement test. Based on these findings, it was recommended that the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) should review the curriculum for Technical Colleges with the aim of integrating the self-awareness instructional approach into the teaching of Technical Trades.

Self-Awareness, Constructivism, Academic Performance, Woodwork Trade

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