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| Impact of Digital Technology Skills on Capacity Building of Auto-Mechanic Graduates of Tertiary Institutions in Rivers State, Nigeria
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Ogbondah N. CHUKUIGWE, Baritule P. SAUE, Christian O. OTOBOH
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Abstract:
This study investigated the impact of digital technology skills on capacity building of auto-mechanic graduates of tertiary institutions in Rivers State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study sought to investigate: digital skills in auto-transmission maintenance and in braking maintenance on capacity building of auto-mechanic graduates in Rivers State. Two (2) research questions were posed and answered while two (2) hypotheses were formulated and tested at .05 level of significance. Descriptive research design was adopted. The population of the study comprised of all the twenty-three (23) lecturers of tertiary institutions offering automobile technology in Rivers State such as Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Port Harcourt, Rivers State University Port Harcourt and Federal Collage of Education (Technical) Omoku, Rivers State. The entire population of respondents was studied; hence the study was a census. A 23 items questionnaire titled: Digital Skills for Capacity Building of Auto-mechanic Graduates in Rivers State" was designed on a 5- point Likert scale of Very High Impact (VHI), High Impact (HI), Moderate Impact (MI), Low Impact (LI) and Very Low Impact (VLI) having ordinal values of 5,4,3,2 and 1 respectively was used for data collection. The face and content validity of the instrument was determined by three experts. A reliability coefficient of .64 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha. Data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses. A criterion mean of 3.50 was used in decision making. It was decided that "reject" the null hypotheses where t-cal. is greater than table t-table, but otherwise, "accept" the null hypotheses. The study found that digital technology skills in auto-transmission maintenance and braking maintenance have high impact on capacity building of auto-mechanic graduates in Rivers State. The study recommended amongst others that should automobile technology students should be provided with automobile maintenance software, packages and programmes in different automobile areas amongst which are auto-transmission maintenance and braking maintenance
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