GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

Nigeria society today needs a pragmatic, dynamic and functional Industrial Technology Education which will equip individual with saleable and marketable skills for employment. Thus Industrial Technology Education (ITE) enhances the development of requisite skills for jobs which reduces unemployment to the bearest level. This can be well achieved if the tool used to assess the learning outcome is in line with the learning objective. Psychomotor assessment is one of the tool used in Industrial Technology Education to find out how much skill imparted to the student have been achieved. Hence psychomotor assessment is the process of obtaining information that is used in taking decision about students, to give feedback to student about his progress, strengths and weakness and to judge instructional effectiveness as it concern skill acquisition. Psychomotor assessment in Industrial Technology in Nigeria is faced with many challenges which include lack of fund, inadequate qualified teachers, lack of student’s interest to study ITE courses, poor planning/policy and poor recording keeping. The paper concluded by recommending that the government should allocate more money in ITE in Nigeria as the money will be use to employed qualified teachers, pay staff, build classroom/workshop.

KEYWORDS: Psychomotor, assessment, education, industrial technology education