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Article Title: Skills Required for Building Technology Capacity Building as Perceived By Technical Educators in Nigeria South-West Colleges of Education
by Akinlabi Wole Idowu

Abstract:
This study examines skills required for building technology capacity building as perceived by technical educators in Nigeria South-West Colleges of Education. Two objectives were raised for the study alongside with two research question. The study employed descriptive survey research design. The population for this study consisted of 72 building technology educators in South-West Colleges of Education. Census study was adopted because of the population is small and manageable. The instrument used for data collection was 20 items structured questionnaire which was designed on a modified 4-point Likert scale titled: �Required Building Technology Skills for Capacity Building Questionnaire (RBTSCBQ). The instrument was validated by three research experts from Department of Technical Education, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo. Reliability co-efficient (r) value of 0.89 was obtained through Cronbach alpha method. 72 copies of the questionnaire were retrieved by the researchers with the help of two research assistants and analysed using weighted mean and Improvement Need Index. It was found out that lecturers perceived trade skills in building technology are required for proper capacity building in building technology. Therefore, it was recommended that the identified training procedures towards capacity building in building technology should be package by schools into training and retraining programmes to enhance lecturer�s capacity building.

Keywords: Building Technology, Skills, Technical Educators and Capacity Building

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