iosr-JRME   Volume-7 ~ Issue-3 ~ May-June 2017

Abstract: The 21st century workplace demands a set of workplace skills for employability which the employers complain as lacking in most Nigerian graduates. It is no longer news that there exist a discrepancy between the expectations of employers of labour and those of most Nigerian graduates regarding the skills required for employment. The need therefore arises for workplace skills to be integrated into technical education programme. It is against this background, that this paper highlighted and discussed the concept of Technical education in Nigeria, concept of workplace skills, its importance and forms of workplace skills............

Keywords: 21st century, technical education, workplace skills

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Abstract: This study was designed to determine the effect of concept mapping strategy on students' academic performance and interest in technical drawing in technical colleges in Edo State, Nigeria. A pretest, posttest, non equivalent control group, quasi-experimental research design was adopted. Two research questions and two hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. 61 students made up the experimental group and 56 students in the control group for the study; giving a total of 117 year II technical students in 2015/2016 academic session drawn from the four Edo State owned technical colleges made up the sample for this study. Two instruments: Technical Drawing Achievement Test (TDAT) and Technical Drawing Interest Inventory (TDII) were used for data collection...........

Keywords: Concept mapping, interest, technical drawing

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Abstract: Now a days world is becoming more and more comfortable. Everyone wants to have more of the comfort in his share by every possible way, especially youths are the pray of this these all. To get the desire comfort and happiness, they want to keep away all the difficulties and frustration from them and there is the easiest way for this is taking drug and Alcohol. But its affect their lives, families and societies and it becomes problems for them as well as people around them. Aim of the study: The aim the present studies is to check the association between the mental health and their adjustment among the alcohol abusing students especially those who are living in rented room or hostels of Durg district...........

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Abstract: A teaching model of peer assessment being developed based on the cooperative learningmodel brings an impact of active participation of the university students who are pre-service teachers in the learning process. Based on the researchers' observation, there are some superiorities of the use of peer interactive learning over other cooperative learning models such as : 1) while having a discussion, the students are very active because they are assessed by their friends in the group, 2) the students are more self-prepared for the materials to be given (being less afraid of not understanding the contents), 3) lecturers or teachers can do assessment while they are teaching, 4) the assessment is done in the process of learning..............

Keywords: Teaching Model of Peer Assessment, Development of Peer Assessment Instrument, Analysis of Factor, Lognormal Distribution (3p)

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