Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is a field that requires technical knowledge and deals with technical skills. Some of the skills needed in this field is visualization skills where students need to be able to visualize the technical aspects during problem solving process. The differences in the background of students enrolling in the TVET programs is a concern which can mean that the level of students in all aspects also varies. TVET pre-service teachers enrolling in higher institutions should have a good visualization skills towards the end of their study to ensure their ability to teach effectively in TVET college or TVET subjects at school. Thus, this article aim to identify TVET first year pre-service teachers’ visualization skills before they started to enroll in any courses in the university. 60 TVET first year pre-service teachers is chosen as the respondent in this study. This is a quantitative research which involves visualization test as the instrument to collect the data. The data is then analyzed using descriptive statistics to identify the mean score of the visualization test results. The findings indicate that majority of respondents have a low to moderate visualization skills. This indicates the need to further enhance the TVET pre-service teachers visualization skills to prepare them for their future career as TVET educators in TVET institutions.
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