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VOL. 11, ISSUE 3 (2024)
Investigating the impact of work-experience on TVET students generic employability skills: A case of Hassan Usman Katsina Polytechnic
Authors
Faruq Bashir Iron Baba
Abstract
The establishment of Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES)
program in Nigerian tertiary institutions was to provide students with the
practical knowledge, skills and experience required for professional studies.
The aim of this paper was to assess the impact of this program on the generic
employability skills of TVET students. A research question was formulated to
guide the study. The population of the study consists of all NCE II and NCE III
students of technical education department of Hassan Usman Katsina polytechnic
who had received industrial training. The research question was addressed
through the use of a descriptive survey instrument to gather data. The four
generic employability skills—communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and
technology utilization—were selected as the dependent variable constructs for
the study. The reliability assessments reveal that the Cronbach's alpha value
for each construct in the entire item was over 0.80, indicating very good
reliability (r) for all the employed items. Four experts in the discipline
validate the instrument. The chi-square (χ2) goodness of fit test was employed
to assess the hypotheses at the 0.05 significance level. As demonstrated by the
study's findings, students’ effective participation in SIWES program has high
significant impact on their generic employability skills.
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Pages:22-26
How to cite this article:
Faruq Bashir Iron Baba "Investigating the impact of work-experience on TVET students generic employability skills: A case of Hassan Usman Katsina Polytechnic". International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, Vol 11, Issue 3, 2024, Pages 22-26
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