Assessment of supervised industrial attachment of a technical and vocational teacher education program in Ghana
Assessment of supervised industrial attachment of a technical and vocational teacher education program in Ghana
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2009-10-01
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Donkor, Francis
Nsoh, Stanislaus N
Mitchual, Stephen J
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Asia‐Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education
Abstract
The Technical and Vocational Teacher Education program of the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana, includes a
compulsory supervised industrial attachment (SIA). This gives student teachers the opportunity to relate theory to
practice and to be well prepared upon completion to prepare their students for success in further education and the
workplace. This paper which is part of a larger study that assessed the SIA program focuses on the attainment of
program objectives and program usefulness. Data were collected from 13 lecturers, 90 students and 22 workplace
supervisors through a self‐completion questionnaire. The reported findings were based on four‐point Likert‐type items
relating to the attainment of program objectives (5 items) and program usefulness (5 items). Descriptive statistics, one‐
way analysis of variance at 0.05 level of significance and Scheffe′s post hoc test were used to analyze the data. The
results showed that lecturers, students and workplace supervisors rated highly elements of program usefulness and the
attainment of program objectives. Additionally, there was uniform agreement in the responses of respondents as there
were no statistically significant differences in their ratings of all the items relating to attainment of program objectives
and program usefulness except for their ratings regarding the opportunity for host organizations to reduce recruitment
and training costs of workplace staff during attachment (Asia‐Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 10(1), 1‐17)
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Donkor, F., Nsoh, S. N., & Mitchual, S. J. (2009). Assessment of a supervised industrial attachment of a technical and vocational teacher education program in Ghana. International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 10(1), 1.