Youth attitudes towards an informal roadside metalwork fabrication apprenticeship practice

In the informal roadside metalwork fabrication apprenticeship practice, which is now commonly practiced in north western Nigeria, the lack of right attitude were evident in the case of the apprentice. These attitudes range from; attitudes towards facilities mishandling, tools, equipment, co-workers, client and crafts master. These lacks of right attitudes hinder better services rendered to the society. The purpose of this research was to identify those right attitudes needed for the informal roadside metalwork fabrication apprenticeship practice in Nigeria. To this effect an investigation was carried out through survey research, using questionnaire instrument and interview as entailed by methodological triangulation. The research was survey using140 population of master craft persons from sampled workshops in seven states of North West geo-political zone of Nigeria, using structured questionnaire instrument. Interviews were conducted involving ten participants, randomly selected from, Industry-based trainers, lecturers and instructors within the seven states in north western Nigeria. The interviews were to have a balance result. Series of coding were made to obtain the results which were interpreted as they complemented the descriptive results as known by the methodological Triangulation method. To validate the results obtained from methodological triangulation, eleven Delphi panel of experts were engaged. Binary analysis and Kendall’s coefficient of concordance (Kendall’s W^a) were used to measure and determine the consensus of the Delphi panel of experts on the Attitude items. Results obtained were positive because, the level of consensus between the panelist was strong, the Attitude needed items score was 0.716. The result also indicated an inter-judge reliability. Suggestions were made for the improvement of the practice, as the right Attitudes needed were outlined and validated.