Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to determine the workshop management competencies improvement needs of Auto mechanics teachers in the South East States of Nigeria. The study was made of three specific purposes, research questions and hypotheses respectively. The study was carried out in five states using a survey research design with a population of 51 respondents. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection. This instrument was validated by three experts from the Department of Vocational Teacher Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The reliability coefficient of the entire instrument was 0.72. Three research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation. Three null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance using the t-test statistic. The findings of the study revealed that there were 16 workshop management competency improvement needs possessed by automechanics teachers, 38 competency improvement needs needed by automechanics teachers and four strategies to be employed to improve workshop management competency Needs of automechanics teachers. Based on the findings the following recommendation, was made among others; all the thirty eight workshop management competency improvement needs and four strategies should be included in the pre and in-service curriculum of trainee automechanic teachers.