Technical Drawing With AutoCAD – Impact On Students’ Interest And Engagement In Unity Schools In Rivers State, Nigeria.

The study investigated the effect of AutoCAD on students’ interest and level of engagement in Technical Drawing in Unity Schools in Rivers State. The study adopted the 2-group post-test only quasi-experimental design. Ninety-two (92) Technical Drawing students from two Unity Schools drawn from a population of 1071 were purposively sampled. Two research questions were answered while two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The instrument used for data collection was Technical Drawing Structured Questionnaire (TDSQ). The TDSQ was made up of two sections, A and B, which measured students’ interest and engagement towards AutoCAD usage in Technical Drawing. A reliability co-efficient of 0.72 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, while Independent t-test was used to test the hypotheses. The findings revealed among others that AutoCAD had a significant effect on students’ interest and level of engagement in Technical Drawing. Based on the findings, it was recommended that Technical Drawing teachers, and school Administrators should employ necessary measures to sustain the positive attitude of students towards the use of AutoCAD in Technical Drawing. Keywords: AutoCAD; Technical Drawing; Interest; Engagement