(2274) GENDER-BASED COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE IN BUILT ENVIRONMENT TECHNICAL RELATED COURSES IN A TERTIARY INSTITUTION? COVENANT UNIVERSITY CASE STUDY

摘要

Technical Education in recent times has witnessed high patronage in term of subscription from maleand female candidates;;this is against the school of thought that believes that technical-baseddisciplines are cut out for men. However in recent times, female candidates seem to be outperformingtheir male counterpart breaking the norms which tends to have defied reasonable logic. It is againstthis background that this study carried out comparative analysis of academic performances of maleand female students studying technical-based disciplines in selected tertiary institution. CovenantUniversity in Nigeria was chosen as a location of the study. Random sampling method was used inthe study, with a sample of 80 students. A structured questionnaire in Likert scale was administeredon student of technical based discipline, Eighty (80) questionnaires was administered on the studentsto harvest their perspective. The responses were further collated, analyzed with SPSS software,processed with Mean Item Score method and presented in tables and charts.Some factors were identified as being responsible for the trend, which includes: Age diference,emotional maturity, intelligence quotient, educational background, external interference, famiyproblem, teachers challenge, complex curriculum, psychological problem, family problem, mode ofsubject delivery, attention to detail among others. Model was presented of an ideal metrics thatinfluences higher performance of female students over their counterpart and what could be done toimprove performance of all gender components.