ABSTRACT

The study assessed the adequacy of resources for vocational education in technical secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State. Five objectives, five research questions and two hypotheses were raised. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. The population comprised 640 respondents (6 principals and 634 teachers) from technical secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State. A sample size of 246 respondents (6 principals and 240 teachers)  participated in the study. Simple random sampling technique was used to draw the sample size. Two instruments titled "Adequacy of Resources Inventory Check-list (ARIC)" and "Adequacy of Resources Questionnaire (ARQ)" were used for data collection. The instruments were validated by three experts, from College of Education, two from Educational Management and one from Measurement and Evaluation from Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. Reliability of the instruments were established using Split-half reliability and Cronbach alpha reliability method. ARIC and ARQ yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.98 and 0.97. Data from 246 completed copies of ARIC and ARQ were used for analysis. Percentage was used to answer research questions 1-3, while Mean and Standard deviation were used to answer research questions 4 and 5. Hypotheses were tested using t-test at 0.05 level of significant. Results showed that there is adequate teaching staff, whereas workshops and instructional facilities were not adequate. There were no significant difference between the mean responses of principals and teachers on the adequacy of funding for teaching and learning in technical secondary schools. There were resource challenges experienced in vocational education in Akwa Ibom State technical secondary schools. It was recommended that government should provide adequate workshops and instructional facilities for effective implementation of vocational education programme.