Abstract

The study was carried out to determine Effects of Innovative Pedagogies on Skill Attainment of Brick/Block laying and Concreting Students in Technical Colleges in Kano state, Nigeria. Survey research design was used for the study. The population for the study was 28 block laying, bricklaying and concreting teachers in technical colleges. Structure questionnaire was used as instruments for data collection. Two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated. Cronbach alpha method was used for the reliability of the instrument which yielded a coefficient of 0.83. Mean was used to analyze the data for answering research questions while t- test was used to test the hypotheses of no significant difference at 0.05 levels of significances. Recommendation: The skills identified in this study should be integrated into the curriculum of block laying, bricklaying and concreting for training students in Technical Colleges, Workshop and seminars should be organized for Brick/Block-laying and concreting teachers on current technologies/issues in Brick/Block-laying and concreting from time to time, Teachers of block laying, bricklaying and concreting should endeavor to adopt identified teaching and evaluation strategies for training their students and Training equipment, machines and books should be donated to schools offering Brick/Block-laying and concreting by government and employers of labor in order to teach skills to students.