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ABSTRACT
The study was carried out to investigate the challenges faced by Industrial Technical Education students taking Engineering courses on their academic performance. The design of the study is descriptive while the population comprised all Industrial Technical Education in University of Benin. The sample size was 200 level and 400 level Industrial Technical Education students totaling 100 respondents while a researchers’ self-developed questionnaire formed the instrument for data collection. The supervisor and one expert validated the instrument. Four research question guided the study. A review of empirical studies was carried out to guide the researcher into previous studies in the area and also to provide the researcher with the researcher with theoretical base. A 16-item questionnaire was used to obtain information from the respondents. The questionnaire is organized into two sections. The questionnaire is organized into two sections, Section A and section B. Section A seeks relevant information about the respondents while Section B comprises 16-item to solicit information from the respondents on the challenges faced by Industrial Technical student taking Engineering courses on their academic performance in the University of Benin, Benin city. The questionnaire had four point Likert rating scale of Very High Extent (VHE), High Extent (HE), Low Extent (LE) and Very Low Extent (VHE).
Based on the data collected and analyzed, the following results were obtained that lack of prior knowledge engineering to a great extent affect the academic performance of Industrial Technical Education students taking Engineering courses. The findings also revealed that lack of instruction al materials and facilities affects the academic performance of Industrial Technical Education students taking Engineering. It also revealed that the teaching methods employed by engineering lecturers and also discrimination of Industrial Technical education affect the academic performance of Industrial Technical Education students taking Engineering courses.
Based on the above, it was recommended that adequate instructional materials and facilities should be provided to help promote effective teaching- learning process for students’ improved academic performance, efforts should also be made by stakeholders to provide students with the necessary prior knowledge to enable them cope well in engineering courses. Engineering lecturers should endeavour to adopt and utilize teaching methods capable of enhancing the students learning capacity.
