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This study investigated the building drawing skills need of vocational technology education students in Niger Delta University Bayelsa State. To achieve the set goals, two research questions and two research hypotheses were formulated and tested. Descriptive Survey research design was used to carry out this study. The population for the study consisted of 50 respondents from the area of the study. Since the population was sizeable there was no sampling. The instrument for data collection was structured questionnaire which was face validated by three experts, from the Department of Vocational Technology Education. To determine the reliability of the instrument, Cronbach alpha method was used and a reliability coefficient of 0.86 was obtained. Data for the study was collected by the researchers. Data collected was analyzed using mean, and t-test. The mean was used to answer the research questions. The null hypotheses were tested using t-test at P<0.05 level of significance. The result revealed that Lecturers and technical college teachers agreed to building skills being essential to vocational technology education students and there existed no significant difference between their responses. It was recommended among others that Workshop or conferences should be organized for teachers on how these skills can be taught to students.

KEYWORDS: Technology Education, Building drawing, Skills