Influence Of The Availability And Utilization Of Educational Resources On Students Academic Performance In Carpentry And Joinery Trade In Technical Colleges In Edo State, Nigeria

This study investigated the influence of the Availability and Utilization of Educational Resources on Studentsrsquo Academic Performance in Carpentry and Joinery trade in Technical Colleges in Edo State, Nigeria. Two research questions wereraised the required resources available for teaching and learning of carpentry joinery subject, available physical and material resourcesin teaching and learning of carpentry and joinery in technical colleges. The research instruments were administered to 143 respondents with the helped of research assistants and trained research assistants. The instruments were collected back and analyzed with mean and percentages. The researcher adopted survey research design for the study. The findings revealed that there were enough teachers, students and workshop assistants in carpentry and joinery and the carpentry and joinery equipment/tools were grossly inadequate. The recommendations of this study areGovernment and school authorities should provide adequate equipment/tools in carpentry and joinery workshops so as to improve the studentsrsquo academic performancein technical college in Edo State, Nigeria

AN ANALYSIS OF SAFETY CULTURE & SAFETY TRAINING: COMPARING THE IMPACT OF UNION, NON-UNION, AND RIGHT TO WORK CONSTRUCTION VENUES

The construction industry is one of the most dangerous sectors of the US economy. As such, the safety attitudes and climate within small (residential) contracting firms may play a role in providing a safe culture and working environment. The intent of this practitioner-based research study is to compare and determine if there is a difference in safety practices—based on documented field inspections and their related original number of violations observed by OSHA—between union residential carpentry contractors in the St. Louis area and: 1) non-union residential carpentry contractors in the St. Louis area; 2) non-union residential carpentry contractors across Missouri; and 3) non-union carpentry contractors in the four contiguous Right to Work (Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas) states to Missouri, solely under federal OSHA compliance. Three separate T-tests (for independent samples) were utilized to measure the outcomes of the various groups observe

Which Sustainable Software Practices Do Scientists Find Most Useful?

We studied scientists who attended two-day workshops on basic software skills to determine which tools and practices they found most useful. Our pre- and post-workshop surveys showed increases in self-reported familiarity, while our interviews showed that participants found learning Python more useful than learning the Unix shell, that they found pointers to further resources very valuable, and that background material---the "why" behind the skills---was also very valuable

Library Carpentry: software skills training for library professionals

Librarians play a crucial role in cultivating world-class research and in most disciplinary areas today world-class research relies on the use of software. This paper describes Library Carpentry, an introductory software skills training programme with a focus on the needs and requirements of library and information professionals. Using Library Carpentry as a case study of the development and delivery of software skills focused professional development, this paper describes the institutional and intellectual contexts in which Library Carpentry was conceived, the syllabus used for the initial exploratory programme, the administrative apparatus through which the programme was delivered, and the analysis of data collection exercises conducted during the programme. As many university librarians already have substantial expertise working with data, it argues that adding software skills (that is, coding and data manipulation that goes beyond the use of familiar office suites) to their armoury is an effective and important use of professional development resource

Liberty Street School: Reuse and Rehabilitation Feasibility Report

It is recommended that the iron fire escapes on the east and west elevations be removed because they do not meet current fire codes as a proper means of egress from the building. The metal railings should also be removed and replaced with railings that meet current building code with a proper height

‘Plumb line scribe’: using multimedia to preserve traditional craft skills

The skills required in craft practice involve a high degree of tacit knowledge which is frequently difficult for the craft expert to articulate. N. Wood, a multimedia designer, has undertaken extensive research over the last ten years seeking to understand the knowledge of skilled craftsmen and find methods of capturing and passing it on. She has developed an elicitation strategy that employs an expert learner to uncover the skilled knowledge of master craftsmen, and a transmission strategy based on the concept of bridges to assist the design of learning resources for novices. U. H. Lassen has used the techniques developed by Wood to record and transmit the skilled knowledge needed to make timber-framed buildings, knowledge that today is in danger of being lost. The focus of the study has been the procedure for scribing timbers, which is a central part of the building process. The aim of the research was to investigate the possibility of combining the two roles defined in Wood’s research as an expert learner and designer. Being a skilled carpenter, Lassen has acted as an expert learner, learning the skills of scribing through a combination of researching existing documentation, working with master craftsmen and his own experimentation. At the same time, he developed and tested a multimedia learning resource to provide ‘bridges’ for new learners to this knowledge. The outcome of the application of Wood’s elicitation and transmission strategy to plumb line scribing is a demonstration of the transferability of Wood’s methods within this new context. This is important because it reveals the potential for other craft practitioners to apply Wood’s methods to their own learning and teaching, and produce learning resources to provide bridges to their craft knowledge and preserve their unique skills