The study examined the construction of mini-lathe machine to enhance teaching and learning of woodwork technology in federal college of education technical, ekiadolor, Edo state. The need for this arose from the inadequacy of modern instructional equipment in technical institutions, which has negatively limits students’ hands-on experience, and overall learning outcomes in woodwork technology. Three research questions guided the study and three hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted research and development (R&D) design and incorporating quasi-experimental research design precisely non-equivalent control group design. The population of the study was all the 26 NCE II students of woodwork technology in FCET, Ekiadolor. Purposive sampling technique was used due to the manageable size of the population. The instrument for data collection was the Lathe Operations in Woodwork technology Achievement Test (LOWAT), which was subjected to face and content validity by three experts. The instrument was subjected to test retest reliability technique and a reliability coefficient was calculated using Crombach Alpha. The data collected were analyzed. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The instrument was administered to 10 NCE II students purposively sampled for tryout basis in FCET, Asaba on two consecutive times in two weeks using classes A and B as control and experimental groups respectively. The findings of the study revealed that students get motivated when they have equipment to work with, particularly when taught lathe operations for wood processing and machining in woodwork technology, their performance also was improved. It was concluded that, fabricated woodwork mini-lathe was apt to enhance teaching and learning in woodwork technology and it recommended that technical institution authorities should sort out ways of training teachers/instructors in technical crafts on how to produce more functional instructional materials to enhance achievement of their students.
Keywords: College of Education Technical, Lathe machine, woodwork mini-lathe and woodwork technology
