Teaching Method in Building Construction Programme and the Development of Students’ Vocational Skills in Technical High Schools in Cameroon

Technical High Schools in Cameroon are agencies that aim at empowering students with vocational skills that will enable them to be self employed and boost socio economic development. This study was to look at the influence of teaching method as a component of building construction programme on the development of students' vocational skills in technical high schools in Cameroon. The study used the cross sectional descriptive survey research design in a concurrent triangulation mixed method approach, and targeted five technical high schools in Fako Division and four in the Wouri division. The sample was made up of 83 teachers and 268 students. The data collection instruments were questionnaires for teachers and students and an observation guide for teachers in the flame of classroom activities. Quantitative data were entered using EpiData Version 3.1 and analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS Standard version, Release 21.0. The questionnaire was made of categorical variables and data were analysed using counting techniques namely frequency and proportions while Multiple Responses Analysis was used to aggregate score within conceptual components. Spearman's Rho correlation test supported by Binary Logistic Regression was used to appraise the predictive power of teaching method on students' acquisition of vocational skills. Samkea Ferdinand Fofuleng "Teaching Method in Building Construction Programme and the Development of Students' Vocational Skills in Technical High Schools in Cameroon" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-5 , October 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd59730.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/59730/teaching-method-in-building-construction-programme-and-the-development-of-students'-vocational-skills-in-technical-high-schools-in-cameroon/samkea-ferdinand-fofuleng