Abstract
The study sought to determine the level of availability, adequacy and extent utilization of
community-based resources for teaching and learning vocational subjects in Ekiti State secondary
schools. The study adopted descriptive survey research design and was carried out in Ekiti State,
Nigeria. The population for the study comprised 560 secondary school principals and vocational
subject teachers in the state. A simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample size
of 120 respondents made up of 100 vocational subject teachers and 20 school principals in ratio
5:1 per school. A 14-item structured questionnaire tagged “Availability, Adequacy and Utilization
of Community-Based Resources Questionnaire (AAUCRQ)” was used to elicit responses from the
respondents. Cronbach Alpha was used to obtain a reliability coefficient of 0.82. Two research
questions were formulated to guide the study and analyzed using a real limit of number at criterion
mean of 2.5 for independent item analysis to answer the research questions. A t-test statistic was
used to test two null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed
that community-based resources such as natural, human, material and institutional resources for
instructional facilities are abundantly available and adequate for teaching and learning of
vocational subjects but slightly utilized in some cases and in most cases not utilized at all. Finally,
constructive recommendations on utilization of community-based resources for the transformation
of teaching and learning of vocational subjects in Ekiti State and Nigeria at large were made.
Keyword: Utilization, Vocational education, Community-bases resources, secondary school
education.
Publication Date: 2016-06-06