COMPETENCY IMPROVEMENT NEEDS OF HEALTH INSTRUCTOR

IMPLICATIONS TO THE PROFICIENCY OF GRADUATES OF SCHOOL OF HEALTH TECHNOLOGY, ENUGU STATE.

Abstract

This paper aimed at the determination of competency improvement needs of health instructors in teaching reproductive health practices to students in schools of Health Technology in Enugu State of Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. One research question and one hypothesis guided the study. The study was carried out in Enugu State of Nigeria. The population for the study was twenty-six (26) health Instructors. Eleven (11) Competency item questionnaire were developed by the researcher and used for data collection. The questionnaire had two types of scale responses of required and performance with a 4 point response scale each. The questionnaire was validated by three experts. Split-half technique and Pearson product moment correlation method were used for the internal consistency reliability which yielded a coefficient value of 0.84. Twenty-six (26) copies of the questionnaire were administered to the respondents. All the copies of the questionnaire were retrieved and analyzed using weighted mean and Improvement Required Index (IRl) to answer the research question and t-statistics was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. It was found out that the Instructors require improvement in all the eleven (11) competency items in teaching reproductive health practices. It was therefore recommended that the health instructors in Schools of Health technology be retrained in the 11 Competencies identified by this study through workshops and short duration courses by the Stakeholders and Government.