EFFECT OF AUTOCAD SOFTWARE PACKAGE ON CREATIVE ABILITY AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF TECHNICAL DRAWING STUDENTS TECHNICAL COLLEGES IN DELTA STATE
Abstract
Continuous increase in poor creative ability and academic achievement of technical drawing students in technical colleges in Delta State especially in an external examination such as National Business and Technical Examination Board calls for an urgent solution. In view of this, it becomes necessary for the researcher to determine whether the use of AutoCAD software package to teach technical drawing students in technical college in Delta State could improve their mean creative ability and academic achievement. The study adopted quasi-experimental design. It was guided by two research questions and one null hypothesis tested at 0.05 level of significance.The population of the study was 356 National Technical Certificate (NTC 11) of Technical drawing Studentsin state owned technical colleges. Purposive sampling technique was used to sample 160 technical drawing studentsdrawn from two schools out of the six technical colleges in the State. Instrumentfor data collection was Technical Drawing Achievement Test (TWAT) which was validated bythree experts. The instrument was tested for reliability using test–retest method to obtain coefficient value of 0.89. The arithmetic mean was used to answer the research questions while Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the null hypotheses at 0. 5 level of significance. The study revealed that students in the experimental group obtained higher mean scores than those in the control group. It was concludedthat the use of AutoCAD could improve the creative ability and academic achievement of technical drawing students’in technical colleges. In view of the positive effect of AutoCAD software package, it was therefore recommended amongothers, that the AutoCAD software package should be adopted for teaching technical drawing to promote students’ creative ability and overall academic achievement.
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Keywords:Â AutoCAD, Technical Drawing, Creative Ability, Academic Achievement and Technical Colleges.
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