The study investigated the emerging technical skills expected of students of Motor Vehicle
Mechanic Works in the maintenance of transmission system in Rivers State. The population of the
study consisted of 153 respondents, comprising 140 Motor Vehicle Industry technicians and 13
Motor Vehicle Technical Teacher in Rivers state. No sampling was done considering the small and
manageable size of the population. Four research questions were posed while four null hypotheses
wereformulated. A self-developed instrument tagged” Emerging Technical skills of Motor Vehicle
Mechanic Works Questionnaire (ETSMVMQ) was used to gather information for the study. This
instrument was face validated by three experts, while reliability coefficient of 0.87 was obtained
using Cronbach-Alpha reliability technique. The research questions were answered using the mean
and standard deviation, whereas t-test statistics was used to test the four null hypotheses at 0.05 level
of significance. Following the analysis, 10 emerging technical skills needed in maintaining the
transmission system were identified. It was recommended among other things that the government
should embark on training and retaining technical educators of motor vehicle mechanic in technical
colleges in order to upgrade their capacity
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Author Name: Okwelle, P. Chijioke and Beako Y. Tombari
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Keywords: technical skills
ISSN: 2581-5148
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