Needs analysis in technology education programme: purposes and procedures in curriculum development in nigeria

The paper focus on needs analysis in technology education: Purposes and procedures in curriculum development in Nigeria. It examines the term technology education in Nigeria, needs analysis in curriculum development, the purposes of needs analysis in curriculum development, procedures for conducting needs analysis and needs analysis in technology education. The paper revealed that, needs analysis in technology education is faced with ethical challenge of not being fair and ethical about needs analysis approach used in data collection, the temptation of being partial by researchers and curriculum developers have ignored the use of systematic and comprehensive needs analysis and rely on their own recollections of the occupational area or recollections of panel of experts. The paper concluded that, needs analysis in technology education in Nigeria is faced with challenges both from researchers and curriculum developers ends. Therefore, the paper recommended among others that, researchers in technology education should be fair and ethical about needs analysis approach in data collection and curriculum developers in technology education should adhere to the use of systematic and comprehensive needs analysis in curriculum development processe