Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to determine the strategies for enhancing the acquisition of psychomotor skills by building construction graduates of technical colleges in Taraba State. Five research questions guided the study while the five null hypotheses formulated were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a survey research design. The population for the study comprised 57 respondents which included 8 site supervisors and 49 building construction craftsmen. There was no sampling because of the manageable size of the population. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire. Three experts validated the instrument. Cronbach alpha reliability method was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument and 0.82 reliability coefficient was obtained. Mean and standard deviation were used for answering the research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study found fifteen strategies for enhancing acquisition of psychomotor skills in setting out, fifteen strategies for enhancing the acquisition of psychomotor skills by graduates in foundation, ten strategies for enhancing the acquisition of psychomotor skills of graduates in flooring, fifteen strategies for enhancing the acquisition of psychomotor skills in walling and fourteen strategies for enhancing the acquisition of psychomotor skills by graduates in roofing. There was no significant difference in the mean responses of craftsmen in technical colleges and site supervisors on strategies for enhancing the acquisition of psychomotor skills in setting out, foundation, flooring, walling, and roofing. Based on these findings, it was recommended that all the strategies identified for enhancing the acquisition of psychomotor skills by building construction graduates should be strictly utilized for training of building construction graduates. Skilled and experienced trainers should be employed so that training activities can be friendly, and these will provides building construction craftsmen and supervisors with wholesome psychomotor skills in setting-out, foundation, flooring walling and roofing. The major limitation of this study is inherent in its scope and methodology hence suggestions for further research were highlighted.