Vocational and Technical Education Journal

The study was carried out to assess the effectiveness of SIWES programme undertaken by technical College Students in Delta State, Nigeria. Three research questions were raised to guide the conduct of the study. The population consisted of all 315 final year students of all the Technical Colleges in Delta State, 153 students and 20 teachers were drawn using a proportionate sampling techniques were used as respondents for this study. A 28 item structured questionnaire titled assessment of effectiveness of SIWES undertaken by Technical College Student Questionnaire (AESUTCSQ) with a four point rating scale was used for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research question. The instrument was validated by two experts in the Department of Curriculum, Measurement and Evaluation from Federal College of Education (Technical) Asaba, Delta State and the reliability of the instrument was pre-tested on eight technical students and two technical teacher of Benin technical College Edo State who were not involved in the main study. A coefficient of 0.72 was obtained using Pearson product moment of correction. The result review that technical and vocational student acquired various skills to little extent during industrial attachment. It was recommended among others that Ministry of Education in collaboration with National Board for technical Education to adapt appropriate measures to ensure that school based supervisor (teacher) are effective in carrying out supervision of students in SIWES.

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