ABSTRACT
The main thrust of this study is on the effect of Dreyfus Model Training of career guidance on
Soap Making and Bakery Skills acquisition of apprentices for employment in Niger State. The
model is divided into five stages: Novice, Advance Beginner, Competence, Proficient and
Expert. Eight research questions and eight null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significant
guided this work. The research design adopted for the study was the quasi experimental non
equivalent group in which a total of 168 apprentices were purposively sampled from four skills
acquisition centres in Minna. The two instruments used for collection of data from the
respondents were Bakery Skills Acquisition Test (BSAT) and Soap Making Skills Acquisition
Test (SMSAT), each instrument consist of 20 items segmented into five stages. The instrument
was validated by three experts in Guidance and Counselling, Science Education and Counselling
Psychology out of which two are from University of Nigeria, Nsukka and one from Ibrahim
Badamasi Babangida University Lapai, Niger State-Nigeria. The reliability of the instrument in
terms of internal consistency was based on a trial test conducted at Skills Acquisition Section of
Women Day College Minna with a sample size of 60 respondents, using the Cronbach Alpha
Statistics with an index of 0.81 for the BSAT instrument and 0.80 for the SMSAT instrument.
Four skills acquisitions centres were purposively sampled for both experimental group and the
control group. The experimental group for soap making skills is located at Chanchaga Skills
Acquisition Centre Minna while the control group is located at Saint Clement Skills Acquisition
Centre Minna. Whereas, the experimental group for bakery skills is located at Talba Youths
Skills Acquisition Centre Minna with the control group at Women Day Centre Minna. All the
four skills acquisition centres were pretested and post tested on the two instruments after
treatment by the researcher on Dreyfus Model Training. The data collected were analyzed using
mean, standard deviation and ANCOVA. The findings show that there was significant difference
between the mean achievement scores of apprentices after training on Dreyfus Model in soap
making and those without the training. Similarly, there was significance difference between the
mean achievement scores of apprentices after training on Dreyfus Model in bakery skills and
those without the training. Finally, there were no significant interaction effect scores differences
after training on Dreyfus Model in soap making skills and bakery skills of apprentices. These
findings were discussed alongside with their implications and recommendations. One