Abstract
The concept of skills acquisition is a global concept that needs to be embraced at all levels of human endeavor given this, the study was set to investigate the perceived indices for skills development acquisition needed among NCE agricultural undergraduate students in public colleges of Education in Kwara state, Nigeria. The sample size comprises all the NCE students in all three colleges of education in Kwara state, the sample frame of 35% of the respondents was used making a total of 150 respondents used as the sample size. The multi-stage sampling procedure was adapted, Instrument for data collection was a questionnaire, while descriptive & inferential statistical tools were used for data analysis. Results of the findings revealed that the majority of the respondents (92.7%) could communicate adequately, (92%) had a good sense of human relationships, (92.5%) possessed the ability to cope with academic stress, (87.5%) possessed the ability to adopt innovation while 89.6% possessed a problem-solving strategies skills, The results also affirm that NCE agriculture students required more skills development; in some of the areas like innovative skills acquisition (=3.50), & e-skills acquisition (=3.47) among others. It therefore recommended that the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) extend its intern-ship training program on skills acquisition to 6months instead of 4 months, which will enable agriculture students to fully acquire necessary skills acquisition that are relevant to the establishment & sustainability of agro-based enterprises.
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Isreal Adewumi, Kwara State College of Education, Nigeria
Mukaila Aremu, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Olayinka Jelili, Kwara State University, Nigeria
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Conference: BAMC2024
Stream: Education / Pedagogy
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Adewumi I., Aremu M., & Jelili O. (2025) Perceived Skills Development Acquisition Needs of Agricultural Students in Public Colleges of Education in Kwara State, Nigeria ISSN: 2435-9475 – The Barcelona Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 45-52) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-9475.2024.5
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-9475.2024.5
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