CORE RESOURCE INPUTS REQUIRED BY SECONDARY SCHOOL LEAVERS FOR SETTING UP FUNCTIONAL CELL PHONE MAINTENANCE WORKSHOPS IN LAGOS STATE

Abstract

The study determined the core resource inputs required by secondary school leavers for setting up functional cell phone maintenance workshops in Lagos State. A descriptive survey design was employed for the study. Three research questions guided the study while three null hypotheses formulated were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population for the study was 68 subjects which comprised of 35 lecturers of electrical/electronic technology. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 33 literate road side cell phone technicians. Due to the manageable size of the lecturers all of them were involved in the study. A 69-items structured questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. The instrument was validated by three experts. Cronbach alpha method was used to determine the reliability of the instruments with a coefficient of 0.82. Sixty eight copies of the instrument were administered on the respondents by the researchers and research assistants but sixty five copies of the questionnaire were retrieved and analyzed using mean to answer the research questions while t-test for independent sample was used to test the null hypotheses. The study found out that 16 maintenance skills were required by secondary school leavers for servicing cell phones, 19 maintenance skills were required for repairing cell phones and 34 material resource inputs were required by senior secondary leavers for maintenance of all kinds of cell phones. There was no significant difference in the mean responses of road side cell phone technicians and lecturers of electrical/electronic technology in polytechnics on the core resource inputs required by secondary school leavers for setting up cell phone maintenance workshops. It was recommended that all the identified core maintenance skills should be used to empower senior secondary school leavers for maintenance of all kinds of phones in Lagos State. The study also recommended that core material resource inputs should be made available to senior secondary school leavers in order to set up functional cell phone maintenance workshops.