Teaching Methods and Creativity Levels of Students on Acquisition of Entrepreneurial Skills in the Rewinding of Coil in Electric Motor

Abstract

The study was designed to investigate teaching methods and creativity levels of students and acquisition of entrepreneurial skills in the rewinding of coil in electric motor. The study area was Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. A sample of 60 physics senior secondary school students were purposively selected from a population of 1000 students and subjected to quasi-experimental pre-test post-test design with two experimental and one control group with each group taught with different instructional methods. Data was obtained using Creative Ability Test (CAT) and Entrepreneurial Skill Acquisition Test (ESAT) instruments, with reliability coefficients of 0.95 and 0.74 respectively, was analysed using mean and percentage for the research questions while 3×3 Multivariate Analysis of Covariance was used to test the hypotheses. The results showed that students with high creative ability gained most in the acquisition of measurement and manipulative skills when taught with cooperative strategy, while students with average and low creative abilities gained most in the acquisition of measurement, manipulative and finger dexterity skills when taught with demonstration strategy. However, the post hoc analyses showed that the significant differences in the instructional strategies were credited to demonstration strategy. The study thus recommends that the creative abilities of the students should be developed, while students–centred instructional strategies like demonstration and cooperative methods should be preferably used by teachers in teaching students rewinding of coil in electric motor.